Charleston Gazette-Mail

The Charleston Gazette-Mail is a Saturday and Sunday newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia, USA. It is published by a joint venture between the Charleston Gazette and the Charleston Daily Mail which publish editorially rival, but non-competitive, in business terms, papers on weekdays.

Sunday

In 1961, the morning Gazette, owned by the Daily Gazette Company, and the afternoon Daily Mail (which also published a Sunday morning edition), owned by former Alaska Governor Walter Clark, entered into a Joint Operating Agreement. The two papers remained editorially separate, but combined all business functions and carried the same advertising, with each owning 50% of the joint venture company, Charleston Newspapers Inc., from which profits were split. Both papers began publishing Monday-Saturday, with subscribers of both receiving the combined Gazette-Mail on Sunday.

The paper was produced by a combined staff between 1961 and 1991, when the agreement was renegotiated so that the Gazette staff would produce the paper. The local editorial viewpoint of the paper after that point mirrored that of the Gazette. The paper, however, has always featured a different font package from either paper, and has featured national columnists (which reflected both papers' viewpoints) and comics from both papers.

Saturday

In 2004 the Gazette purchased the Daily Mail, which was the subject of a law suit under anti-trust laws. It shut down the Daily Mails Saturday edition and began a Saturday Gazette-Mail. This publication carries two editorial pages, one reflecting the more conservative Daily Mail's views and one reflecting the more liberal view of the Gazette, as well as two comics pages. It is otherwise, however, indistinguishable from the weekday Gazette, using its font package, being produced (apart from the Daily Mail editorial page) by its staff, and reflecting its views.

The Gazette website is updated with the Saturday and Sunday material from the Gazette-Mail, but the Daily Mail website is not.

West Virginian of the Year

The paper's last Sunday edition of the year selects a "West Virginian of the Year" on a similar basis to Time magazine's Person of the Year.

Motto

Reflecting the Gazette's motto of "The State Newspaper" the paper's motto is "The Saturday/Sunday Newspaper of West Virginia".