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Nowhere is Norfolk's quest for a new personality better reflected than in the city's two newspapers: the morning Virginian-Pilot and the afternoon Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star (which is in fact one paper, with separate editions for Norfolk and neighboring Portsmouth). Although both are owned by the parent Ledger-Dispatch Corp., the papers are fiercely competitive in their search for the news and often differ editorially on some of the South's most basic problems...
...Obnoxious." By Northern standards both papers are conservative. But by Southern standards the Pilot is downright liberal, and the Ledger-Dispatch is at best middle-reading. In Virginia's 1958 school desegregation crisis, the Pilot was the only daily in Virginia to agree from the very beginning that the U.S. Supreme Court's integration orders must be obeyed. "We don't call ourselves liberals," says Editor Lenoir Chambers of the Virginian-Pilot. "We never preached the doctrine of integration." But as Chambers wrote in a 1959 editorial series that won him a Pulitzer Prize, "The mark...
Lenoir Chambers, editor, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot...
...Norfolk one morning last week, the telephone rang at the city desk of the Virginian-Pilot. The caller identified himself as James Anderson. He had a confession to make: a few days before, he had tried unsuccessfully to hold up the downtown branch office of the Bank of Virginia in Norfolk. Then he had read in the papers that the FBI had picked up one Daniel Dough Jr., a part-time copy boy at the Virginian-Pilot, who was identified by the bank teller as the holdup man. Said Anderson: "My conscience bothered me. I didn't want...
...Douglas Martin for the Charlotte News and wirephotoed around the world by the Associated Press. Last week it won top honors (out of 743 entries from 20 countries) in The Netherlands Newspaper Publisher Association's annual photo contest. For Photographer Martin, who now works on the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, the honor was doubly welcome. Reason: the Charlotte News, which downplayed the integration story, never used his award-winning shot...