| Record Delta | |
| Type: | Semi-daily |
| Foundation: | 1876 |
| Owners: | News Media Corporation |
| Circulation: | 3,475 |
| Circulation Date: | 2016 |
| Circulation Ref: | [1] |
| Headquarters: | 2B Clarksburg Rd Buckhannon WV 26201 |
The Record Delta is a newspaper serving Buckhannon, West Virginia, and surrounding Upshur County.[2] Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, it has a circulation of 3,475 and is owned by News Media Corporation.[3]
The Record Delta is the merger of the Buckhannon Record and the Republican Delta. The Buckhannon Record was founded in 1876.[4] In the 1910s it had the distinction of being an early West Virginia newspaper to be helmed by a female editor, Minnie Kendall Lowther.[5] Commenting on the paper's leadership in 1918. the Exponent Telegram stated: "The Buckhannon Record, edited by a woman, is.one of the best of northern West Virginia weeklies and it is high time that women were taking more active part in newspaperdom generally throughout West Virginia."[6]
In March 1977, the Buckhannon Record combined with the Republican Delta to form the Record Delta.[7]
In both 2016 and 2017, the paper won the West Virginia Press Association's General Excellence Award in Division IV (under 4,000 circulation).[8] [9]
It has been sourced for reporting by the Charleston Gazette-Mail as recently as April 2018,[10] and is considered a paper of public record by the State of West Virginia.[11]
On August 14, 2018, News Media Corporation announced that James Austin would take over as the publisher of The Record Delta, Mountain Statesman, The Weston Democrat.[12]