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Newspaper in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
The Sun News
is a daily newspaper published in
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
, in the
United States
. It serves the
Grand Strand
region of
South Carolina
.
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The
Myrtle Beach News
was founded as a weekly in 1935 by brothers-in-law C. L. Phillips and J. Clarence Macklen. They had recently started a
printing
business, and local merchants asked them to do a local newspaper. In 1961, it was sold to Mark Garner, publisher of Myrtle Beach's other newspaper, the
Myrtle Beach Sun
(started in 1950). Garner merged the two papers into
The Sun News
, and soon began publishing twice weekly. With the explosive growth that occurred in the next half century, as the Grand Strand became a major tourist and retirement area, the paper stepped up its publication schedule, becoming a full-fledged daily by 1977. It was eventually acquired by
The State Record Company
in 1973.
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Along with the rest of the State Record Company, it was acquired by the
Knight Ridder
newspaper chain in 1986. McClatchy became
The Sun News’
parent company when it purchased Knight Ridder in June 2006. McClatchy filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and the company was purchased by Chatham Asset Management for $312 million.
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