Charleston Daily Mail

The Charleston Daily Mail merged with the Charleston Gazette on July 20, 2015, to form the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Founded in 1880, the Charleston Daily Mail was a long-time producer of multi-platform news products serving West Virginia. The Daily Mail was given stable ownership in 1914 by former governor of Alaska, Walter Eli Clark. The newspapers motto, as chosen by Gov. Clark, is Without, or With, Offence to Friends or Foes, I Sketch Your World Exactly as It Goes. The Daily Mail for many years was owned by the Clay family, which sold it to Thompson Newspapers in 1987. The newspaper was also owned by Media News Group, a subsidiary of Digital First Media. J.D. Maurice, its editor of many years until his retirement in 1978, won the Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing in 1958 and the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing in 1975. The paper featured an everyman cartoon character, Charley West (or occasionally his wife, Virginia Ginny West, or thei...