Green Bay News-Chronicle
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format |
Broadsheet (1972-1976) Tabloid (1976-2005) |
| Owner(s) | Metropolitan Newspaper Corp. (1972-1976) Brown County Publishing Co (1976-2004) Gannett (2004-2005) |
| Publisher | Frank A. Wood (1976-2004) Ellen Leifeld 2004-2005 |
| Editor | Tom Brooker* |
| Founded | November 13, 1972 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | June 3, 2005 |
| Headquarters | Green Bay, WI |
| Circulation | 5,000 (estimated during final year) |
| Website |
greenbaynewschron.com at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
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greenbaynewschron.com at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
The Green Bay News-Chronicle (originally known as the Green Bay Daily News) was a daily newspaper published in Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1972 to 2005. The paper was owned and operated by Denmark, Wisconsin-based Brown County Publishing Company during much of its existence, and competed with the larger and more established Green Bay Press-Gazette. The Gannett newspaper chain, the Press-Gazette's parent company, owned the News-Chronicle during its last year of existence.
The News-Chronicle launched on November 13, 1972 as The Green Bay Daily News. The International Typographical Union had gone on strike against the Press-Gazette, unhappy with the hot-lead-to-computer typeset changeover and other new technologies that the Press-Gazette and other newspapers were acquiring at that time, which the union feared would cost its membership their jobs. The Daily News was formed to bring in money for the strikers and to support their cause.
From 1972 to 1976, the Daily News lost money in its head-to-head competition with the Press-Gazette. During that time both newspapers were distributed in the afternoon. Wealthy local businessman Victor McCormick, who had a personal dislike for the Press-Gazette, became a major investor in the Daily News and remained an active voice in its operations until a 1976 heart attack forced him to end his financial support.
With the Daily News on the verge of bankruptcy and owing one of their creditors enough money to have them pull the plug, that creditor—Brown County Publishing Co., publisher of several weekly publications in Northeast Wisconsin and the Daily News' printer—agreed to buy the Daily News. The company's owner, Frank A. Wood, made the purchase believing that the Green Bay community could benefit from two daily newspapers.
Wood's first major change to the paper had already taken place three years earlier, when the Daily News moved from afternoon to morning publication. After the purchase, the paper was rechristened the Green Bay News-Chronicle (the hyphenated name referring to Wood's weekly paper, the Brown County Chronicle). Wood also revamped the paper from broadsheet to a tabloid format, which made it easier to read at the breakfast table. After purchasing the paper, he also started to grow a beard and vowed not to shave until the paper had a break-even month. It took 21 months and a 13-inch beard before the News-Chronicle turned a $125.81 profit in November 1977.
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