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{{short description|Defunct newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia, United States}}
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The '''''Charleston Daily Mail''''' was a [[newspaper]] based in [[Charleston, West Virginia]]. On July 20, 2015, it merged with the ''[[Charleston Gazette]]'' to form the ''[[Charleston Gazette-Mail]]''.
==Publishing history==
The ''Daily Mail'' was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Governor [[Walter Eli Clark]] and remained the property of his heirs until 1987. Governor Clark described the newspaper as an "independent Republican" publication. The newspaper published in the afternoons,
In 1987, the Clark heirs sold the paper to the Toronto-based [[Thomson Newspapers]]. The new owners moderated the political views of the paper to some degree. In 1998, Thomson sold the ''Daily Mail'' to the Denver-based [[MediaNews Group]].{{cn|date=June 2020}}
In May 2004, MediaNews sold the paper to the Daily Gazette Company, the owners of the morning newspaper. The new owner reduced the staff and canceled its Saturday edition, publishing Monday–Friday afternoons from 2004 to 2009. It also began to market the paper in an uncompetitive manner in an attempt to drive its circulation down to the point it could be closed. The [[United States Department of Justice]] filed suit under [[antitrust]] laws almost immediately. In the course of the lawsuit it was discovered that the Daily Gazette Company had presented a business plan to the [[United Bank (West Virginia)|United Bank]] which projected a
In January 2009, the paper was switched to a morning publication.{{cn|date=June 2020}}
On January 20, 2010, the Daily Gazette Company and the Justice Department settled relative to violations in the purchase of the ''Daily Mail'' and the Daily Gazette Company's management of it. Under the announced terms of the settlement, the previous owner, the Media News Group, held a perpetual option to re-purchase 20% of the paper, had two of five seats on the management board, and determined the size of the budget for its news staff and choose its editorial content. The Daily Gazette was required to seek government permission to cease publication of the ''Daily Mail'' and the intellectual property of the paper passed to the Media News Group when it shut down. This intellectual property once included the [[domain name]] dailymail.com which the newspaper beat the [[Daily Mail|larger London paper]] in registering in 1996, but in January 2014 it was reported that the British company had paid over £1m (US$1.7m) for the domain name for its [[Mail Online]] service.<ref name=Guardian20140127>{{cite news
The newspaper was merged with the ''[[Charleston Gazette
== Awards ==
The ''Daily Mail'' has won awards in many fields. J. D. Maurice, its editor of many years until his retirement in 1978, won the [[Sigma Delta Chi Award]] for editorial writing in 1958 and the [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing|Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing]] in 1975.{{cn|date=June 2020}}
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==External links==
* [http://www.charlestondailymail.com/ ''Charleston Daily Mail''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711175140/http://www.charlestondailymail.com/ |date=July 11, 2015 }}
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