Gainesville Sun (ISSN 0163-4925) is a daily newspaper published in Gainesville, Florida, United States, covering the North-Central part of the country. The paper is published by James E. Doughton, the Executive Editor of the paper is Douglas Ray and editor of the editorial page is Nathan Crabbe.
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The paper was founded in July 1876 as Gainesville Times , by EM siblings and William Wade Hampton, and renamed The Gainesville Sun in February. 1879. This paper was first printed on July 6, 1876. It underwent a series of ownership and name changes in the 1880s and 1890s, first consolidated with Henry Hamilton McCreary Weekly Bee as < b> Gainesville Sun and Bee , then as Gainesville Daily Sun , and finally back to Gainesville Sun .
It was bought by W.M. Pepper, Sr., in 1917 for $ 50,000, and published by the Pepper family for three generations, until it was sold to Cowles Media Company in 1962. During that time owned by the Pepper family (in particular in 1922) an editor in the newspaper publicly acknowledged his membership in the Ku Klux Klan and praised the Klan in print. This attitude helps to explain the editorial published in the paper after the Rosewood massacre justified the actions of the white man, saying "Let it be understood now and forever that he, whether white or black, brutally attacking an innocent and defenseless woman, will die a death dog. "In contrast, the Tampa Tribune at that time called it" an immortal stain on the Levy county people ", clearly condemned, not justified the massacre.
In 1971, it was sold to The New York Times Company. On January 6, 2012, The Gainesville Sun was purchased by Halifax Media Group. In 2015, Halifax was acquired by New Media Investment Group.
The online edition was launched in 1995, originally called SunOne , and then just GainesvilleSun.com . This website is now known as Gainesville.com. In 2005, he launched The Gainesville Guardian, a weekly paper devoted to East Gainesville and an African-American city resident, to mixed opinions.
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Awards
The Gainesville Sun has won two Pulitzer Prizes: publisher John R. Harrison won in 1966 for his campaign for better housing codes, and editorialist Horance G. "Buddy" Davis Jr won in 1971 for his editorial in support of the peaceful desegregation of the local school system.
References
External links
- Gainesville.com, Gainesville Sun home page
- Today's Gainesville Sun front page on the Newseum website
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