Ruston Daily Leader
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Ruston, Louisiana |
The Ruston Daily Leader is the daily newspaper in Ruston in Lincoln Parish in North Louisiana. The Daily Leader is published Sunday morning and Monday through Friday afternoons. The circulation in 2010 was 5,418, but the paper claimed a readership of some 15,000. It is the official journal of the Lincoln Parish School Board, the parish government, sheriff's department, and most municipalities in the coverage area.
The paper was founded by Savery Lewis, 1894. From 1931 to 1962, The Daily Leader was owned and published by Clarence Faulk, who was also the proprietor of KRUS-AM radio until 1968.
On August 29, 1969, The Daily Leader physical plant, then at 301 West Mississippi Avenue in Ruston, burned on a Friday morning. Little was retrieved except bound copies of old editions and material for that day's paper. Because of the fire, the lead-type printing, much like what Johannes Gutenberg and Ottmar Mergenthaler had invented and improved, was replaced by the photomechanical, digitized, computer-based system known as offset printing. That day the newspaper, an abbreviated four-age edition composed by "cold-type", still reached subscribers by 4 p.m.
By the late fall of 1969, The Daily Leader acquired, renovated, and occupied the former Ritchie Grocer Company building facing the Illinois Central Railroad at 212 West Park Avenue. With subsequent additions and improvements, that structure remains the physical home of the existing newspaper plant.
From 1962 to 1980, The Daily Leader was published by Tom Kelly, who had previously worked for several other small-town newspapers. Kelly now edits a monthly newspaper, The Piney Woods Journal in Dodson in Winn Parish, Louisiana, geared toward the forestry industry.
The Daily Leader is currently published by Ruston Newspapers, Inc., name of owner(s) not available.
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