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The ''New Hampshire Union Leader'' is the daily newspaper of Manchester, the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. On Sundays, it publishes as the ''New Hampshire Sunday News.'' Founded in 1863, the paper was best known for the conservative political opinions of its late publisher, William Loeb, and his wife, Elizabeth Scripps "Nackey" Loeb. Famously, the paper helped to derail the candidacy in 1972 of U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination. Loeb editorially criticized Muskie's wife, Jane, in editorials. When he defended her in a press conference, there was a measured negative effect on voter perceptions of Muskie within New Hampshire. (See also: Canuck letter.) Over the decades, the Loebs gained considerable influence, and helped shape New Hampshire's political landscape. In 2000, after Nackey's death on January 8, Joseph McQuaid, the son and nephew of the founders of the ''New Hampshire Sunday News'', Bernard J. and Elias McQuaid, took over as publisher. == History == Like many newspapers, the ''Union Leader'' has a complex history involving mergers and buyouts. The weekly Union became the ''Manchester Daily Union'' on March 31, 1863. The afternoon ''Union'' became a morning ''Daily Union'' (dropping the "Manchester"). Although the ''Union'' began as a Democratic paper, by the early 1910s it had been purchased by Londonderry politician Rosecrans Pillsbury, a Republican. In October 1912, the competing ''Manchester Leader'' was founded by Frank Knox and financed by then-Governor Robert P. Bass, a member of the Progressive (or Bull Moose) Party who was attempting to promote the Progressive cause in New Hampshire. The newspaper was so successful that Knox bought out the ''Union'', and the two newspapers merged under the banner of the Union-Leader Corporation July 1913. Owing to Pillsbury's role in the company, both papers espoused a moderate Republican, pro-business stance. Following Knox's death in 1944, William Loeb purchased the company, merging the ''Union'' and ''Leader'' into a single morning paper, the ''Manchester Union-Leader'', in 1948. Under Loeb's watch, the ''Union-Leader'' moved sharply to the right. He often placed editorials on the front page and supported highly conservative candidates for public office. He dropped Manchester from the paper's masthead in the mid-1970s to emphasize the fact that it is the only statewide newspaper in New Hampshire. On April 4, 2005; it changed its name to the ''New Hampshire Union Leader'' to reflect its statewide reach. However, it is still called the ''Manchester Union Leader'' by some residents due to its historical legacy. The ''New Hampshire Sunday News'' was created in 1948 and later, after Loeb's attempts to start a Sunday edition of the Union-Leader failed, was purchased by the Union-Leader Corporation. The ''Union Leader'' still publishes the ''Sunday News'' as its Sunday edition. Two notable early employees of the ''New Hampshire Sunday News'' were Ralph M. Blagden, the first Managing Editor,〔 (Archived by the Internet Archive (here ), archived by WebCite at (http://www.webcitation.org/5Ya01qMAB ))〕 and an even more prominent journalist he mentored, Benjamin C. Bradlee. Bradlee was then a reporter〔 (Archived by the Internet Archive (here ), archived by WebCite at (http://www.webcitation.org/5YZzX04rV ))〕 but went on to be the Executive Editor of ''The Washington Post'' for nearly 30 years and is now its vice president. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Hampshire Union Leader」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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