Winston-Salem Chronicle

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| type = Weekly newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| owners = The Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co.

| founder = Ernie Pitt and Joseph N. C. Egemonye

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| foundation = 1974

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| language = English

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| circulation = 7,000

| circulation_date = 2017

| oclc = 12156348

| website = {{URL|wschronicle.com}}

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The Winston-Salem Chronicle is a weekly newspaper that targets the African-American community in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.{{Cite book |last=Danky |first=James Philip |url=http://archive.org/details/africanamericanne00dank |title=African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography |last2=Hady |first2=Maureen E. |date=1998 |publisher=Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |others=Mark Graham |isbn=978-0-674-00788-8 |pages=217}}

History

Ernie Pitt was unable to get his student investigation published in a local newspaper, so he decided to start his own paper. Pitt & Joseph N. C. Egemonye founded the Chronicle in 1974. Its office was on North Liberty Street. Pitt made a vow to include news of the African-American community that other news media did not consider worth covering. He told the truth, whether it was good news or not. He also hired Black journalists when other papers did not.{{cite news|url=https://greensboro.com/opinion/column/robin-adams-cheeley-best-and-worst-of-times-the-wnston-salem-chronicle-turns-50/article_ff167578-64c4-11ef-8dfa-1313c5a9e8e5.html|title=Best and worst of times: The Wnston-Salem [sic] Chronicle turns 50 |last=Cheeley|first=Robin Adams|work=Greensboro News and Record|date=September 1, 2024}} The Chronicle won numerous awards including the John Russwurm Award as best Black newspaper in the United States.{{cite news|url=https://greensboro.com/opinion/editorial/allen-johnson-being-editor-of-the-winston-salem-chronicle-was-the-hardest-job-i-ever/article_81c58b2c-66f9-11ef-ab57-af2267ebb162.html|title=Being editor of the Winston-Salem Chronicle was the hardest job I ever loved |last=Johnson|first=Allen|work=Greensboro News and Record|date=September 1, 2024}}

Derwin Montgomery and James Taylor, the managing directors of Chronicle Media Group LLC, said March 27, 2017 that their company was buying The Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. by May 2017. Taylor became publisher at that time.{{cite news|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/two-on-winston-salem-city-council-part-of-group-buying/article_a82b6b5a-e1df-562b-90f1-51a32208cbac.html|title=Two on Winston-Salem City Council part of group buying Chronicle newspaper |last=Young|first=Andrew|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=March 27, 2017|access-date=March 27, 2017}}{{cite news |title=Winston-Salem chronicle |url=https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn85042324/1974-09-05/ed-1/seq-4/ |access-date=20 March 2023 |date=5 September 1974 |page=4 |language=en}} The Chronicle moved to a former Bank of America branch on East Fifth Street on October 1, 2017.{{cite news|url=http://www.journalnow.com/business/chronicle-moving-to-east-winston-salem/article_57831b2d-e059-5bf8-82ec-4d36b4b24c98.html|title=Chronicle moving to east Winston-Salem |last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=September 30, 2017|access-date=September 30, 2017}}

References

External links

[https://www.wschronicle.com/ Winston-Salem Chronicle website]
[http://www.digitalnc.org/newspapers/winston-salem-chronicle-winston-salem-n-c/ Issues of the Winston-Salem Chronicle from 1974-2016]

Category:Weekly newspapers published in North Carolina

Category:Mass media in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Category:African-American newspapers

Category:1974 establishments in North Carolina

Category:Newspapers established in 1974