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''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.'' 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 purchased 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>

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.'' In 1908, [[Robert Ewing, I]], while still the [[publisher]] of the since defunct ''New Orleans Daily States,'' purchased ''The Shreveport Times.'' In 1929, Ewing purchased 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.

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.