Omaha Sun

Omaha Sun
TypeWeekly newspaper
FoundedDecember 27, 1951
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationAugust 31, 1983
HeadquartersOmaha, Nebraska

The Omaha Sun was a weekly newspaper that published from December 27, 1951, to August 31, 1983.[1] It was formerly owned by Berkshire Hathaway, a company headed by investor Warren Buffett.[2]

The staff of The Sun Newspapers of Omaha, Nebraska, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting in 1973 for uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, a Catholic youth care center and charity, leading to reforms in the organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public.[2][3]

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought the newspapers in 1968. The company sold them in 1980 to Hyde Park Herald publisher Bruce Sagan. The Sun newspapers stopped publishing in 1983.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Friendly, Jonathan (1983-10-09). "Costs Force Omaha Paper into Closing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  2. ^ a b "Like many nonprofits, their mission started to drift -". Philanthropy Daily. 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  3. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes. "The 1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2020-09-29.


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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953–1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964–1984
1953–1975
  • Edward J. Mowery (1953)
  • Alvin McCoy (1954)
  • Roland Kenneth Towery (1955)
  • Arthur Daley (1956)
  • Wallace Turner (1957)
  • George Beveridge (1958)
  • John Harold Brislin (1959)
  • Miriam Ottenberg (1960)
  • Edgar May (1961)
  • George Bliss (1962)
  • Oscar Griffin Jr. (1963)
  • James V. Magee, Albert V. Gaudiosi & Frederick Meyer (1964)
  • Gene Goltz (1965)
  • John Anthony Frasca (1966)
  • Gene Miller (1967)
  • J. Anthony Lukas (1968)
  • Al Delugach & Denny Walsh (1969)
  • Harold E. Martin (1970)
  • William Jones (1971)
  • Timothy Leland, Gerard M. O'Neill, Stephen Kurkjian & Ann Desantis (1972)
  • The Sun Newspapers of Omaha (1973)
  • William Sherman (1974)
  • The Indianapolis Star (1975)


1976–2000
2001–2025


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