Rome News-Tribune

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Rome News-Tribune
Type Daily newspaper[1]
Format
Owner News Publishing Company
Publisher Burgett Mooney III[2]
Editor Charlotte Atkins[2]
Associate Editor Mike Colombo[2]
Founded 1843[3]
Price 50 cents[4]
Headquarters Rome, Georgia
Website: Rome News Tribune

Rome News-Tribune is the local daily newspaper of Rome, Georgia. Begun originally as a weekly newspaper, the paper has survived several merges with other newspapers. Aside from several months during the Civil War, the paper has been published continuously since 1843.[3] It is owned by the News Publishing Company.[1]

In an editorial in November 2007, the paper criticized a prosecutor's decision to prosecute a local comic book store owner on obscenity charges.[5] The charges were later dismissed. The editorial was linked to by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.[6].

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  1. ^ a b News Publishing Company – History
  2. ^ a b c Editorial Department Rome News-Tribune
  3. ^ a b Cox, Calvin; Grimes, Millard B. (1985). The last linotype: the story of Georgia and its newspapers since World War II. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 403. ISBN 0-86554-190-6. 
  4. ^ Rome News-Tribune Newseum
  5. ^ "Sure funny stuff", November 28, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-28. 
  6. ^ Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, November 29, 2007 – Rome News-Tribune Condemns Gordon Lee Prosecution

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