Rome News-Tribune
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Type | Daily newspaper[1] |
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Owner | News Publishing Company |
Publisher | Burgett Mooney III[2] |
Editor | Charlotte Atkins[2] |
Associate Editor | Mike Colombo[2] |
Founded | 1843[3] |
Price | 50 cents[4] |
Headquarters | Rome, Georgia |
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Website: Rome News Tribune |
Rome News-Tribune is the local daily newspaper of Rome, Georgia. Begun originally as a weekly newspaper, the paper has survived several merges with other newspapers. Aside from several months during the Civil War, the paper has been published continuously since 1843.[3] It is owned by the News Publishing Company.[1]
In an editorial in November 2007, the paper criticized a prosecutor's decision to prosecute a local comic book store owner on obscenity charges.[5] The charges were later dismissed. The editorial was linked to by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.[6].
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- ^ a b News Publishing Company – History
- ^ a b c Editorial Department Rome News-Tribune
- ^ a b Cox, Calvin; Grimes, Millard B. (1985). The last linotype: the story of Georgia and its newspapers since World War II. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 403. ISBN 0-86554-190-6.
- ^ Rome News-Tribune Newseum
- ^ "Sure funny stuff", November 28, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, November 29, 2007 – Rome News-Tribune Condemns Gordon Lee Prosecution