BATON ROUGE — Douglas Manship Jr., part of Baton Rouge's first family of journalism, has died. He was 82.

Manship was a grandson of Charles P. Manship Sr., who founded Capitol City Press in 1909 with James Edmonds. Charles Manship bought out Edmonds in 1912 and his four grandchildren later ran the company until selling it to New Orleans-based Georges Media Group in 2012.

The Manship family retained the company's television holdings. Manship Media continues to operate WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge and KRGV-TV in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

Douglas Manship Jr. worked as Capital City Press' correspondent in Washington for the Morning Advocate and State-Times and later served as news feature editor, editorial writer and director of the company's online operation.

After the State-Times closed

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