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'''''The News Star''''' is the principal [[newspaper]] of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] and northeastern [[Louisiana]]. Its circulation area ranges over some dozen parishes from [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in Lincoln Parish, on the west, to Tallulah in Madison Parish on the east, to the [[Arkansas]] state line on the north, and to Ferriday in Concordia Parish on the south. The newspaper is a [[Gannett]] Company publication.

'''''The News Star''''' is the principal [[newspaper]] of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] and northeastern [[Louisiana]]. Its circulation area ranges over some dozen parishes from [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in Lincoln Parish, on the west, to Tallulah in Madison Parish on the east, to the [[Arkansas]] state line on the north, and to Ferriday in Concordia Parish on the south. The newspaper is a Gannett Company publication.

==History==

==History==

''The News Star'' began in 1890 as the ''Monroe Evening News.'' [[John Travis Nixon]], a native of [[Illinois]], and a partner, Julius Cheney, became the publishers in 1893, but Nixon soon left for Crowley in Acadia Parish, where he began what is now the ''Crowley Post Signal.''<ref>Dictionary of Louisiana Biography - N - Louisiana Historical Association (lahistory.org), accessed April 17, 2021.</ref>

''The News Star'' began in 1890 as the ''Monroe Evening News.'' [[John Travis Nixon]], a native of [[Illinois]], and a partner, Julius Cheney, became the publishers in 1893, but Nixon soon left for Crowley in Acadia Parish, where he began what is now the ''Crowley Post Signal.''<ref>Dictionary of Louisiana Biography - N - Louisiana Historical Association (lahistory.org), accessed April 17, 2021.</ref>

In 1909, coincidentally the year that John Travis Nixon died at the age of forty-one, ''The Evening News'' merged with ''The Daily Star'' to form the afternoon newspaper, ''The Monroe News-Star.''<ref name=nstar>[http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/CUSTOMERSERVICE02/41202001 About Us | thenewsstar.com | The News Star<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 1908, [[Robert Wilson Ewing, I]] (1859–1931), while still the [[publisher]] of the since defunct ''New Orleans Daily States,'' purchased ''The Shreveport Times''. In 1929, Ewing bought the since defunct ''Monroe Morning World''. In 1930, he acquired the ''News-Star'', since switched from an afternoon to a morning publication. Ewing was accordingly among the two or three most influential persons in the Louisiana [[journalism]] community.<ref name=dict>Dictionary of Louisiana Biography - E - Louisiana Historical Association (lahistory.org), accessed april 17, 2021.</ref>ref>

In 1909, coincidentally the year that John Travis Nixon died at the age of forty-one, ''The Evening News'' merged with ''The Daily Star'' to form the afternoon newspaper, ''The Monroe News-Star.''<ref name=nstar>[http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/CUSTOMERSERVICE02/41202001 About Us | thenewsstar.com | The News Star<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 1908, [[Robert Wilson Ewing, I]] (1859–1931), while still the [[publisher]] of the since defunct ''New Orleans Daily States,'' purchased ''The Shreveport Times''. In 1929, Ewing bought the since defunct ''Monroe Morning World''. In 1930, he acquired the ''News-Star'', since switched from an afternoon to a morning publication. Ewing was accordingly among the two or three most influential persons in the Louisiana [[journalism]] community.<ref name=dict>Dictionary of Louisiana Biography - E - Louisiana Historical Association (lahistory.org), accessed April 17, 2021.</ref>

The two Monroe newspapers remained in the Ewing family until the Gannett acquisition on June 16, 1977. The ''Morning World'' and ''The News-Star'' consolidated on August 4, 1980, to become  ''The News-Star-World.'' The name was later changed and the first edition of ''The News Star,'' since a morning paper,'' was printed on May 22, 1988.<ref name=nstar/>

The two Monroe newspapers remained in the Ewing family until the Gannett acquisition on June 16, 1977. The ''Morning World'' and ''The News-Star'' consolidated on August 4, 1980, to become  ''The News-Star-World.'' The name was later changed and the first edition of ''The News Star,'' since a morning paper,'' was printed on May 22, 1988.<ref name=nstar/>