Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

The July 27, 2005 front page
of the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner The McClatchy Company
Publisher Valerie Canepa
Editor Ben Holden
Founded 1828
(as The Columbus Enquirer)
Headquarters 17 W. 12th St.
Columbus, GA 31901-2413
United States
Circulation 45,661 Monday - Thursday
49,022 Friday & Saturday
57,656 daily
Website: www.Ledger-Enquirer.com

The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer is a McClatchy newspaper headquartered in Columbus, Georgia, in the United States. It was founded in 1828 as the Columbus Enquirer by Mirabeau B. Lamar[1], who later played a pivotal role in the founding of the Republic of Texas and served as its third President.[2] The newspaper is a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

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[edit] History

In 1874, the Columbus Enquirer, until then a weekly publication, merged with Columbus's first daily newspaper, the Daily Sun, to form the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.[3] The paper was published under this name for many years before eventually dropping the hyphen and reverting back to the name Columbus Enquirer. For many years the morning Columbus Enquirer and the afternoon Columbus Ledger, a paper founded in 1886, published a combined Sunday paper known as the Sunday Ledger-Enquirer. Eventually the papers would merge the daily edition as well adpoting the name Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

[edit] 1926 Pulitzer Prize

The Columbus Enquirer-Sun was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service "for the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan; against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution; against dishonest and incompetent public officials and for justice to the Negro and against lynching."[4]

[edit] 1955 Pulitzer Prize

The Columbus Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer were awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their "complete news coverage and fearless editorial attack on widespread corruption in neighboring Phenix City, Alabama which were effective in destroying a corrupt and racket-ridden city government. The newspaper exhibited an early awareness of the evils of lax law enforcement before the situation in Phenix City erupted into murder. It covered the whole unfolding story of the final prosecution of the wrong-doers with skill, perception, force and courage."[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Prospectus for the Columbus Enquirer, 1828, tsl.state.tx.us; retrieved April 2007
  2. ^ President Mirabeau B. Lamar, tsl.state.tx.us; retrieved March 2008
  3. ^ Newspaper List:Georgia, web.library.emory.edu; retrieved April 2007
  4. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes for 1926, pulitzer.org; retrieved April 2007
  5. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes for 1955, pulitzer.org; retrieved April 2007

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