Richmond Times-Dispatch history

In 1890, Bryan changed the newspaper’s name to the Richmond Times.

In 1896, Bryan also acquired The Manchester Leader and launched the Evening Leader.

Formed in 1903 with the merger of the Times and the Dispatch, the Times Dispatch of Richmond quickly emerged as Virginia's primary newspaper of record.

In any case, the Times-Dispatch had grown--with a circulation by 1904 of 8,000 for the Wednesday edition, 9,000 for the morning edition, and 10,500 for Sunday.

Bryan died in 1908, but in a mere six years he had firmly established the Times-Dispatch as a major southern paper.

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For the next ten years, Sunday circulation saw modest growth with a paid circulation of 33,000 by 1916, while the daily edition increased modestly to 22,000.

Bryan also purchased The Tampa Tribune in 1927.

Richmond Christmas Mother Fund was founded by The News Leader in 1935, with the goal of helping the needy during the holidays.

In 1940 The News Leader and the competing Times-Dispatch formed Richmond Newspapers Inc., with the Bryan family owning 54% of the company.

After his father’s death in 1944, D. Tennant Bryan was named president and publisher of the Times-Dispatch and the News Leader.

In 1948, Virginius Dabney of the Richmond Times-Dispatch won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing during the year.

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In 1983, Ross Mackenzie of the News Leader was a finalist in the commentary category.

In 1992, the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Richmond News Leader merged into a single morning publication under the Times-Dispatch name, and printing operations were moved to a state-of-the-art printing facility in Hanover, Va.

On Sundays published as: Sunday times-dispatch, and: Richmond times-dispatch, <May 15, 1994->

In 1995, The Times-Dispatch launched a new online service, Gateway Virginia.

In 1999, The Times-Dispatch opened a downtown office building at 300 E. Franklin St, on the site of several earlier buildings.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch building gets a new sign over the Franklin Street entrance on March 23, 2000.

28, 2005, on the topic of Richmond’s proposed performing arts center.

On Saturday, June 23, 2007, a three-alarm fire struck The Times-Dispatch printing plant in Hanover County.

In 2008, Richmond.com was purchased by Media General from TWG Portals LLC of Richmond.

In 2010, The Times-Dispatch launched PolitiFact Virginia in partnership with PolitiFact.com, a Pulitzer Prize-winning website of the Tampa Bay Times.