Lynchburg News & Advance

Photos of the Lynchburg News and Advance building in downtown Lynchburg. The newspapers operation moved to Lakeside Drive in 1974.

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Lynchburg News & Advance (09799)

An undated photo of the Lynchburg News & Advance office when it was located in downtown Lynchburg on Church Street at Ninth. In 1974 it moved its operation to Lakeside Drive, still in Lynchburg VA. The News was founded in 1866 as a morning newspaper, while The Daily Advance was founded in 1880 as an evening newspaper. In 1888, future U. S. Senator Carter Glass bought The News. In 1893, he bought The Daily Advance and merged its business operations with The News, with news and opinion operations remaining separate. The Glass family continued to publish both papers (The News, every morning; The Daily Advance, weekday afternoons) until 1979, when the papers were purchased by Worrell Newspapers Inc., which began publishing a merged edition, The News & Daily Advance. In 1995, Worrell sold The News & Advance to Media General, which sold most of its newspaper division to Berkshire Hathaway in 2012. The building is currently (2020) in private hands. The old telephone company building is on the right. The automobiles indicate the late 1940's.

Lynchburg VA News and Advance 1974 Church Street Ninth Street Lakeside Drive Glass family 1886 1888 1893 Worrell Berkshire Hathaway 2012 1995 1940's telephone office

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