- The Daily Progress is the sole daily newspaper in the vicinity of Charlottesville, Virginia
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The Daily Progress facts
- It has been published daily since September 14, 1892
- The paper was founded by James Hubert Lindsay and his brother Frank Lindsay
- The Progress was initially published six days a week; the first Sunday edition was printed in September 1968
- Lindsay's family owned the paper for 78 years
- On November 30, 1970, the family announced a sale to the Worrell Newspaper group, which took over on January 1, 1971
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- Eugene Worrell, of Bristol, Virginia, owned about two dozen rural weekly newspapers and a few dailies, all with less circulation than the Daily Progress
- The Progress immediately became the group's flagship paper, and Worrell moved his newspaper group headquarters to Charlottesville
- Faced with major newspaper industry change, Worrell sold his newspaper properties to Richmond-based Media General as a part of a larger $230M deal in 1995
- In the 21st century, Media General sold the Progress' printing press, and reorganized its operations to print multiple newspapers from other printing plants it controlled
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