The Meridian Star

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The Meridian Star
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Publisher Crystal Dupre
Editor Fredie Carmichael
Founded 1898, as The Evening Star
Price USD .50 daily
Headquarters 814 22nd Avenue, Meridian, Mississippi 39302 USA
Circulation 16,188 daily[1]

Website: meridianstar.com

The Meridian Star is a seven-day morning daily newspaper published in Meridian, Mississippi, USA, covering Lauderdale County and adjoining portions of Alabama and Mississippi. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

Founded as The Evening Star in 1898, the paper was renamed The Meridian Star in 1915 but continued to publish in the afternoon until early 2005. It has been Meridian's only newspaper since 1921.[2]

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  1. ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed March 24, 2007.
  2. ^ "The Meridian Star: About Us", March 24, 2007.

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