STAMFORD ADVOCATE

Updated 04-May-2020.

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ART; 6,000 American Prints Take Over Stamford’s Advocate Building: Article on Reba and David Williams, whose collection of 6,000 prints, mostly American, will soon be housed in circa 1894 stone building in downtown Stamford, Conn, that once was home of Stamford Advocate newspaper and printing plant; photos (M)

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the Advocate is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Stamford, Connecticut . the paper is owned and operated by Hearst Communications, a multinational media conglomerate with $4 billion in revenues . the oldest known copy of The Sentinel, dated June 22, 1830, is in Stamford’s public library . the site also features a “UConn Nation” tab focusing on university of Connecticut athletics the newspaper published very little local news, according to an Advocate columnist . the motto of the newspaper was: “Pledged to no party’s arbitrary way, we follow Truth wher’er she leads the way” “a columnist in the newspaper wrote under the pseudonym “Aristides the Younger” some think the columnist was Holly.Holly promoted reading in Stamford in various ways . he was also one of printer William Gillespie and his brother, Edward, joined the newspaper staff . Edward would later cover the civil war from the front lines . around the turn of the century the name changed to The Daily Advocate . in 1928 the building was remodeled, and the newspaper remained in that location until 1980 . in the late 1940s the 1947 film boomerang was shot almost entirely in Stamford . some members of the editorial staff were shown in the movie . in 1978, Anthony dolan won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on city corruption . by 1979, dolan had become tired of journalism and worked for Ronald Reagan’s the newspaper moved to a new building at the corner of Tresser and Washington Boulevards in downtown Stamford . in may 2003 the Advocate opened an office at 605 West Ave. in Norwalk . the newspaper had started printing separate Norwalk editions in the 1980s . the sale did not include Tribune-owned land in Stamford and Greenwich . at the end of 2007, printing plant employees were permanently laid off . the norwalk office was moving from leased office space at 605 West Avenue, where it had been since the Norwalk edition began, to 542 Westport Avenue, effective immediately.On August 8, 2008 the Hearst Corporation acquired