PASSIONATE LEADERSHIP.

• Date: 01 August 2022
• Author: Mildenberg, David

Frank A. Daniels Jr., the longtime publisher of the News & Observer of Raleigh who died last month at 90, positively affected dozens of organizations across the state. Business North Carolina is fortunate to have been one of them.

Indeed, no one has been a bigger backer of this publication since its formation 40 years ago. The N&O, which he led from 1971 to 1996, owned BNC from 1985 until the corporate sale to California-based publisher McClatchy in 1995. Three years later, Frank and an investor group joined BNC Publisher David Kinney and his son, Ben, to buy the magazine.

In 2006, the Kinneys bought out the other investors. Then, in 2015, the Southern Pines-based publishing company, which was principally owned by Frank, bought Business North...