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The Washington Star

The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., between 1852 and 1981. The Sunday edition was known as the Sunday Star.[1] The paper was renamed several times before becoming Washington Star by the late 1970s.

Type

Daily afternoon newspaper

Broadsheet

Captain Joseph Borrows Tate

Jim Bellows (1975–1978)

Mary McGrory, Clifford K. Berryman

December 16, 1852 (1852-12-16)

Conservative

August 7, 1981 (1981-08-07)

1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.

Washington, D.C.

United States

For most of the time it was publishing, The Washington Star was the city's newspaper of record and the longtime home to columnist Mary McGrory and cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman. On August 7, 1981, after 128 years, The Washington Star ceased publication and filed for bankruptcy. In the bankruptcy sale, The Washington Post purchased the land and buildings owned by The Washington Star, including its printing presses.

Industry

Print syndication

May 1965 (1965-05)

May 1979 (1979-05)

acquired by Universal Press Syndicate

444 Madison Avenue,

Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
,
U.S.

Harry E. Elmlark[9]

Columns, comic strips

The Washington Star Company (1965–1978)
Time Inc. (1978–1979)

by Edwina Dumm (May 1965[13]–1969)—inherited from the George Matthew Adams Service

Alec the Great

Buenos Dias by Ed Nofziger (May 1965 – 1967)—inherited from the George Matthew Adams Service

[14]

by Edwina Dumm[13] (May 30, 1965 – September 3, 1966)[15]—inherited from the George Matthew Adams Service

Cap Stubbs and Tippie

The Small Society by (1966–1979)—continued by Universal Press Syndicate until 1984 and then King Features Syndicate

Morrie Brickman

The Smith Family by George and Virginia Smith (1951–1994)—inherited from the George Matthew Adams Service, syndication continued by Universal Press Syndicate.

[16]

by Henry Boltinoff—acquired from Columbia Features

Stoker the Broker

Uncle Charlie by (1965–1978)—inherited from the George Matthew Adams Service[17]

Peter Laing

1944: , for Editorial Cartooning, "But Where Is the Boat Going?"

Clifford K. Berryman

1950: , Editorial Cartooning, for "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington."

James T. Berryman

1958: , Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, for "Metro, City of Tomorrow."

George Beveridge

1959: , Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, "For her comprehensive year-long coverage of the (school) integration crisis."

Mary Lou Werner

1960: , Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, "For a series of seven articles exposing a used-car racket in Washington, D.C., that victimized many unwary buyers."

Miriam Ottenberg

1966: , for National Reporting, for his distinguished coverage of the civil rights conflict centered about Selma, Alabama, and particularly his reporting of its aftermath.

Haynes Johnson

1974: , National Reporting, for his disclosure of alleged irregularities in the financing of the campaign to re-elect President Nixon in 1972.

James R. Polk

1975: , Commentary, for her commentary on public affairs during 1974.

Mary McGrory

1979: , Editorial Writing.

Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

1981: , Criticism, for book reviews.

Jonathan Yardley

Pauline Frederick

City Editor from 1881 to 1897

Harry Post Godwin

former Ontario NDP Leader and interim Liberal of Party of Canada leader was a paperboy in Washington, D.C. from the late 1950s to 1961. His most prominent customers were Estes Kefauver and Richard Nixon

Bob Rae

South African scandal involving planned purchase of the paper

Muldergate

Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University

Clifford K. Berryman Digital Collection

at the Library of Congress

Daily Evening Star (1852–1854)

at the Library of Congress

Evening Star (1854–1972)