MySource:Bcostello51/ \i Manchester Daily Union\i0

The weekly Union became the «i»Manchester Daily Union.«/i» (with a period) on «u»March 31«/u», «u»1863«/u». The afternoon «i»Union«/i» became a morning «i»Daily Union«/i» (dropping the "Manchester"). Although the «i»Union«/i» began as a Democratic paper, by the early 1910s it had been purchased by «u»Londonderry, NH ,_New_Hampshire «/u»politician Rosecrans Pillsbury, a Republican. Office of the «i»Manchester Daily Union«/i» and its publisher «u»Campbell & Hanscom«/u» in 1877. In October 1912, the competing «i»Manchester Leader«/i» was founded by «u»Frank Knox«/u» and financed by then-Governor «u»Robert P. Bass «/u», a member of the «u»Progressive,_1912«/u» (or «u»Bull Moose «/u») Party who was attempting to promote the Progressive cause in New Hampshire. The newspaper was so successful that Knox bought out the «i»Union«/i», and the two newspapers merged under one company, the Union-Leader Corporation, in July 1913. Owing to Pillsbury's stake in the new company, Knox moved his paper politically to the right, and the «i»Manchester Union-Leader«/i» became a moderate, generally pro-business, Republican newspaper. Following Knox's death in 1944, William Loeb purchased the newspaper and moved it further to the right. He often placed editorials on the front page and supported highly conservative candidates for public office. He changed «i»Manchester Union Leader«/i» to «i»The Union Leader«/i» in the mid-1970s to emphasize the fact that it is the only statewide newspaper in New Hampshire. The «i»New Hampshire Sunday News«/i» was created in 1948 and later, after Loeb's failed attempts to start a Sunday edition of the Union-Leader failed, was purchased by the Union-Leader Corporation. It continues to be published under the banner of the New Hampshire Sunday News. Two notable early employees of the «i»New Hampshire Sunday News«/i» were «u»Ralph M. Blagden«/u», the first Managing Editor,«u»[1]«/u» and an even more prominent journalist he mentored, «u»Benjamin C. Bradlee«/u». Bradlee was then a reporter«u»[2]«/u» but went on to be the Executive Editor of «u»«i»The Washington Post «/u»«/i»for nearly 30 years and is now its vice president. Wikipedia