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The '''''Daily Progress''''' (often referred to as "the Progress") is the area's only daily newspaper. The paper is currently one of many owned by Lee Enterprises along with eight other Virginia newspapers.<ref>{{cite-progress-bh|title=Lee Enterprises buys BH Media properties, including The Daily Progress|url=https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/lee-enterprises-buys-bh-media-properties-including-the-daily-progress/article_b112e052-f324-5c2d-b583-bca9cf645e27.html|author=Staff Reports|pageno=A1|printdate=January 30, 2020|publishdate=January 30, 2020|accessdate=January 3, 2021}}</ref> 

Beginning on June 27, 2023, six Virginia newspapers, including ''The News Virginian'' in Waynesboro and ''The Daily Progress'' in Charlottesville, will switch to a three-day-a-week print schedule. The newspapers, all owned by the Davenport, Iowa,-based Lee Enterprises, announced the print schedule change in similarly-worded “To Our Readers” items posted on their websites on Sunday, May 28, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://augustafreepress.com/news/news-virginian-daily-progress-switching-to-three-day-a-week-print-schedule/|title=Daily Progress switching to three-day-a-week print schedule|publisher=Augusta Free Press LLC|last=Graham|first=Chris|publishdate=May 28, 2023 {{!}} 1:48 pm|accessdate=May 30, 2023}}</ref>
[[File:1912-04-15 Daily Progress.JPG|thumb|Daily Progress newspaper, April 15, 1912 edition. The Daily Progress is the Charlottesville area newspaper, published daily from 1892 to the present. Issues from 1892 through 1964 have been digitized from the UVA Library's set of microfilm and are available for viewing [https://search.lib.virginia.edu/?mode=advanced&q=date:+{1900-01-02}&filter={%22FilterDigitalCollection%22:&#x5B;%22Daily+Progress+Digitized+Microfilm%22&#x5D;}&pool=uva_library&sort=SortRelevance_desc online].]]

==History==
[[File:Daily Progress Printing Press.JPG|right|thumb|300 px|1916 product advertisement by Goss Printing Press Company]]
The first issue of the newspaper was published on [[September 14]], [[1892]] by [[James Hubert Lindsay]] & Frank Lindsay. The brothers printed 200 copies on a used Campbell flatbed press at 112 Fourth Street, NE.  James Lindsay was the newspaper's founder and publisher.<ref>{{cite-progress-mg|title=Yesteryears: James H. Lindsay|url=http://www2.dailyprogress.com/lifestyles/cdp-lifestyles/2012/jan/29/yesteryears-james-h-lindsay-ar-1644940/|author=David A. Maurer|pageno=|printdate=29 Jan 2012|publishdate=|accessdate=29 Jan 2012|cturl=}}</ref> At the end of [[1895]], Lindsay announced in an editorial that subscriptions were to be paid in advance rather "than the old plan of waiting until the amounts due on subscription are large and burdensome." <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Business Matter|url=http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2072641/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2072643/4015/1178.5/3/1/0|author=Staff Reports|pageno=2|printdate=December 24, 1895|publishdate=December 24, 1895|accessdate=December 25, 2016 from University of Virginia Library}}</ref>

The first city editor, [[Charles Meriwether Brand]], died on [[January 14]], [[1897]]. <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Charles Meriwether Brand - His Death in This City Occurred this Morning|url=https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2072703|author=|pageno=1|printdate=January 14, 1897|publishdate=January 14, 1897|accessdate=January 14, 2023}}</ref> 

The paper had a radio station with the call sign [[WKBG]] that broadcast its first program on [[May 29]], [[1927]]. <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Charlottesville Hits Air With A Bang; Thousands Hear|url=http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2603148/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2603149/4386.5/794.5/3/1/0|author=Staff Reports|pageno=|publishdate=May 30, 1927|printdate=May 30, 1927|accessdate=May 30, 2016 from University of Virginia Library}}</ref>
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Whereas many cities in the early 1900's were served by at least 2 competing daily newspapers—with the competitors each sympathetic to a different political party or published at the opposite end of the day —

Around the 1930s, the Progress offered two newspapers, one catering toward white readers and the other aimed at Black readers called the [[Reflector]]. <ref>{{cite web|title=Charlottesville Media: "The Reflector" Dusts Off a 70-year Mission|url=http://george.loper.org/trends/2003/Sep/907.html|author=John Borgmeyer|work=News Article|publisher=C-Ville Weekly (via George Loper)|location=|publishdate=September 16, 2003|accessdate=January 3, 2020}}</ref>

In [[1960]], the management and department heads began visiting newspaper plants in order to plan for the paper's long-term future. <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Future Plans for Progress Being Made|author=Staff reports|pageno=11|printdate=January 12, 1960|publishdate=January 12, 1960|accessdate=February 7, 2016}}</ref>

In October 2, [[1975]], the paper helped break a strike by ''The Washington Post'' pressmen by printing 100,000 copies. <ref>{{cite-progress-worrell|title=The Seventies: Central Virginia Ends Decade of Joy and Tragedy|url=|author=Doug Kamholz|pageno=A6|printdate=January 1, 1980|publishdate=January 1, 1980|accessdate=June 27, 2015}}</ref>

==Sale to Media General==
In [[1995]], then owner [[Thomas A. Worrell Jr.]] sold the Progress as the flagship of a 29-paper chain to Media General for $230 million.<ref name="hookweschler">{{cite-hook|url=http://www.readthehook.net/103958/warrens-way-berkshire-hathaway-buys-daily-progress|title=Weschler's world: Berkshire Hathaway buys 'Daily Progress'|author=Lisa Provence
|publishdate=May 17 2012}}</ref>

===Partnership with Charlottesville Tomorrow===
In August [[2009]] the ''Daily Progress'' began publishing stories written by [[Charlottesville Tomorrow]], contributed at no cost.<ref name="hookctprogress">[http://www.readthehook.net/blog/index.php/2009/08/30/partners-progress-hooks-up-with-growth-watchers/ Partners: Progress hooks up with growth-watchers], Lisa Provence, [[The Hook]], August 30 2009</ref> The partnership ended in [[2019]] {{fact}}

===Sale to Berkshire Hathaway===
On May 17, [[2012]] Media General, Inc. announced signed agreements with Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., whereby a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, BH Media Group, will purchase newspapers owned by Media General, including the Progress.

<ref name="megprsale">{{cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/media-general-announces-agreements-with-berkshire-hathaway-for-purchase-of-newspapers-and-new-financing-151856055.html|title=Media General Announces Agreements with Berkshire Hathaway for Purchase of Newspapers and New Financing|work=Press release|publisher=Media General|publishdate=May 17, 2012}}</ref><ref name="cvillesale">{{cite-cville|url=http://www.c-ville.com/Blog/This_Just_In/Berkshire_Hathaway_will_purchase_Media_General_newspapers_including_Daily_Progress/?act=post|title=Berkshire Hathaway will purchase Media General newspapers, including Daily Progress|author=staff report|publishdate=May 17, 2012}}</ref>

===Unionization===
In October 2019, reporters and production workers voted 12-1 to unionized under the [[Blue Ridge Guild]].  <ref>{{cite web|title=Journalists of the Daily Progress vote 12 to 1 to form Blue Ridge Guild|url=https://newsguild.org/mediaguild3/journalists-of-the-daily-progress-vote-12-to-1-to-form-blue-ridge-guild/|author=|work=News Article|publisher=The News Guild|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=November 9, 2019}}</ref>

==Sale to Lee Enterprises==
The sale to Lee Enterprises was completed on [[March 16]], [[2020]]. <ref>{{cite-progress|title=The Daily Progress, Times-Dispatch and other newspapers|url=https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/lee-enterprises-completes-acquisition-of-the-daily-progress-times-dispatch-and-other-newspapers/article_3ef9939a-278b-5567-93a7-a87e8848c5aa.html|author=Staff reports|pageno=|printdate=March 16, 2020|publishdate=January 3, 2021|accessdate=January 3, 2021}}</ref> Soon after the sale, Lee announced cuts at all of its Virginia newspapers, including the ''Daily Progress''. Copy editing and layout jobs were all moved to centralized locations elsewhere in the country. <ref>{{cite web|title=Lee Enterprises plans newsroom cuts at Virginia publications
Daily Progress copy editors' jobs moving to Midwest hub|url=https://www.virginiabusiness.com/article/lee-enterprises-plans-newsroom-cuts-at-virginia-publications/|author=Kate Andrews|work=News Article|publisher=Virginia Business|location=|publishdate=July 31, 2021|accessdate=January 3, 2020}}</ref>

==Personnel==

===Reporters who covered [[Albemarle County]]===

*Allison Wrabel 
*Michael C. Bragg 
*Reynolds Hutchins
*Aaron Richardson (June 2011<ref>{{cite-progress-mg|title=Community rallies around closing Batesville Store|url=http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2011/jun/13/community-rallies-around-closing-batesville-store-ar-1106307/|author=Aaron Richardson|pageno=|printdate=14 June 2011|publishdate=13 June 2011|accessdate=13 June 2011|cturl=}}</ref>-March 2013)
*[[Brandon Shulleeta]] (July 2008-May 2011)
*[[Jeremy Borden]] (September 2006-June 2008)
* Jessica Kitchin (2005-August 2006)<ref>{{cite web|title=Special thanks to Jessica Kitchin, Daily Progress|url=https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/special_thanks_|author=Brian Wheeler|work=Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=August 4, 2006|accessdate=January 3, 2021}}</ref>

===Reporters who covered [[Charlottesville]]===

*[[Ginny Bixby]] (2020-2022) 
*[[Nolan Stout]] (2018-2020)
*[[Chris Suarez]] (2015-2018)
*Aaron Richardson (March 2013-2015) - Previously County reporter
* [[Graham Moomaw]] (February 2011 - January 2013)
* [[Rachana Dixit]]  (July 2008-December 2010)
* [[Seth Rosen]] (February 2007-June 2008)

===Former reporters===

*Liana Bayne, Public Safety Reporter (June 2013-present) 
*Samantha Koon (October 2011<ref>{{cite-progress-mg|title=Albemarle looking at million dollar shortfall|url=http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2011/oct/03/albemarle-looking-million-dollar-shortfall-ar-1356146/|author=Samantha Koon|pageno=|printdate=4 October 2011|publishdate=4 October 2011|accessdate=4 October 2011|cturl=}}</ref>-Present)
* Brian McNeil, Politics/Business Reporter
* Julie Stavitski (Covered education around 2005)
* Brian Root (Business reporter in 1998) 
* Kimberly O'Brien (city reporter active in 1998)
* Beverley Allison (1968) 
* Mike Lantrip (1968)
* Eleanor Berry (1968)
* [[Chris Cramer]], Sports Columnist (1968)
* [[Ruth Lane]], reporter in the 1960's <ref name="WINA">{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Scribner Says Water City's Main Problem|url=http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2659736/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2659753/2960/2295.5/3/1/0|author=Ruth Lane|pageno=17|printdate=March 28, 1962|publishdate=March 28, 1962|accessdate=June 10, 2017 from University of Virginia Library}}</ref>

===Management===

*[[Peter Yates]], Publisher 

====Former managers====

*[[Aaron Richardson]], Managing Editor
*Anita Shelburne, Editorial Page Editor
*Wes Hester, Managing Editor (2016-2017)
*Lawrence McConnell, Former Publisher
*[[Rob Jiranek]], Former Publisher (2016-2018) <ref>{{cite web|title=Rob Jiranek out as Daily Progress publisher|url=http://www.c-ville.com/rob-jiranek-daily-progress-publisher/#.Wuny_4gvxyx|author=Lisa Provence|work=|publisher=C-Ville Weekly|location=|publishdate=May 2, 2018|accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref>
*Nick Mathews, Managing Editor (2015-2016)
*Lee Wolverton, Managing Editor
*McGregor McCance, Managing Editor ( - May 4 2012)<ref name="McCance">{{cite-progress-mg|url=http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2012/may/03/progress-editor-departing-uva-post-ar-1889376/|title=Progress editor departing for UVa post|author=Staff reports|publishdate=May 3 2012}}</ref>
*Lou Hatter<ref>{{cite web|title=Lou Hatter|url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lou-hatter/a/95a/3a3|author=|work=|publisher=Linked In|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=May 18, 2012}}</ref>
*[[Lindsey B. Mount]]
*[[Edward Allen Cleaton]] (appointed August 1934) <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=The Daily Progress Appoints Allen Clayton Managing Editor|url=http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2740738/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2740739/4620/1485/3/1/0|author=Staff Reports|pageno=1|printdate=August 8, 1933|publishdate=August 8, 1933|accessdate=August 9, 2016 from University of Virginia Library}}</ref>
*[[James Hubert Lindsay]] (1892-1934)
*[[Charles Meredith Brand]] &ndash; City Editor from [[1892]] to his death in [[1897]]. 

==References==
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==External Links==

*[http://www.dailyprogress.com/ Daily Progress website]

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