Record #:

16413

Author(s):

Bailey, David

Abstract:

Bailey discusses how Ashley Futrell purchased the WASHINGTON DAILEY NEWS, a newspaper with a beleaguered staff and circulation of 2,700, and built it into an 11,000-circulation paper now worth millions. Heart trouble forced him to turn the paper over to his son Brownie, and it was under Brownie's guidance that articles on dangerous cancer-causing chemicals in the city's water that won the paper a 1990 Pulitzer Prize. The senior Futrell was recently named to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 8, Aug 1991, p44-47, por

Subject(s):

Futrell, Ashley Brown, 1911-2005; Futrell, Ashley Brown, Jr., 1956-; Newspaper publishing--Washington; Pulitzer Prize--WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS; WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS