After World War II, the company spent millions on a new plant and then millions more on expanding it. The newspapers also expanded, with the News and Courier climbing to third in circulation among South Carolina’s daily newspapers under the editorship of William Watts Ball in the 1930s and 1940s.
The Evening Post and the News and Courier continued to publish separately through most of the twentieth century. The newspaper was purchased by the News and Courier in 1926. It established itself as a newspaper opposed to Ben Tillman and his political followers. The third newspaper in the Post and Courier’s lineage, the Evening Post, was founded by a group headed by Hartwell M. Fourteen years later he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial “The Plight of the South.” Robert Lathan became editor of the News and Courier in 1910. On April 3, 1873, they purchased the Courier, and the first issue of the News and Courier was published on April 7, 1873. Although Evans soon dropped out, Riordan and Dawson remained connected to the newspaper. Riordan, Francis Warrington Dawson, and Henry Evans two years later. McMillian of Charleston and two other partners started the newspaper on August 14, 1865, and it was sold to Bartholomew R. The Charleston Daily News was the second ancestor of the Post and Courier. In November 1865 control of the paper was turned over to Charleston native Thomas Y. Sherman’s army at the close of the war and was briefly published by two Union war correspondents. The Charleston Courier advocated secession in 1860 but counseled moderation during the Civil War. The newspaper opposed nullification in the 1830s and secession in the 1850s, ensuring that it would remain in conflict with its chief rival, the pro-states’-rights Charleston Mercury. It was founded by Massachusetts native Aaron Smith Willington and several partners. The oldest, the Charleston Courier, began publication on January 10, 1803. The publication’s lineage can be traced through three newspapers. Published in Charleston, the Post and Courier is the oldest daily newspaper in South Carolina.
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