The June 6, 2007 front page of The Virginian-Pilot
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Landmark Media Enterprises
Publisher	Maurice Jones
Editor	Denis Finley
Headquarters	150 West Brambleton Avenue Norfolk, Virginia 23510  United States
Circulation	183,024 Daily 215,995 Sunday[1]
ISSN	0889-6127
Official website	PilotOnline.com

The Virginian-Pilot is a daily newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia and serving the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, i.e., southeastern Virginia, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. Owned by Landmark Media Enterprises, The Pilot is Virginia's largest daily metro paper.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 History 2 Offices and corporate 3 Prices 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

The Virginian-Pilot and its sister afternoon edition, the Ledger-Star (which ceased publication in 1995) were created by Samuel L. Slover, whose nephew Frank Batten Sr. became publisher at age 27 in 1954. Batten Sr. created the Virginian-Pilot's parent company, Landmark Communications by acquiring other newspapers and radio stations and by creating The Weather Channel, now owned by NBC Universal.

In the 1920s, editor Louis Jaffe received the Virginian-Pilot's first Pulitzer Prize. Jaffe mentored the paper's next editor Lenoir Chambers, who in 1960 received the paper's second Pulizter for his editorials on desegregation.

Frank Batten Jr. became publisher in 1991 and began digitalizing the paper. In 1993 The Virginian-Pilot was one of the first newspapers in the country to launch a sister website, Pilotonline.com.^{[citation needed]} Batten Jr. stepped down as the paper's publisher, becoming Landmark Communications' Chairman and CEO. "Dee" Carpenter became publisher in 1995, followed by Bruce Bradley in 2005, and Maurice Jones in 2008.

[edit] Offices and corporate

The paper's offices remains in their original downtown Norfolk headquarters dating to the 1940s, and the company operates satellite offices in Virginia Beach, Suffolk, and on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The paper's printing facility, once located also in the downtown Norfolk headquarters, is in Virginia Beach.

The Virginian-Pilot is a division of Pilot Media Companies, which includes Pilotonline.com/Hamptonroads.com, Pilot Direct printing, LNC (Local News on Cable)/Pilot13 News, Hamptonroads.tv, Inside Business, Link, The Flagship, Military Newspapers of Virginia, and other supplemental print and web businesses.

A January 3, 2008 report suggests a possible sale of The Virginian-Pilot's parent company, Landmark Communications. After much debate, The Virginian-Pilot was taken off of the selling block. The company will not go back on sale for another few years.^[2]

[edit] Prices

The Pilot prices are: $0.75 Daily, $2.00 Sunday.

[edit] References

1. ^ "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2007-03-31. http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-05-30. 
2. ^ "Battens may sell The Roanoke Times' parent company". The Roanoke Times. 2008-01-03. http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/145644. Retrieved 2008-01-03. 

[edit] External links

• The Virginian-Pilot
• Landmark Publishing summary
• Landmark Communications History

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