Evansville Courier & Press
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 Front page of The Evansville Courier dated August 8, 1945 featuring the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Gannett |
| Editor-in-chief | Ryan Reynolds |
| Founded | 1845 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 300 E. Walnut St. Evansville, Indiana 47713 United States |
| Circulation | 30,000 Monday-Saturday 50,000 Sunday |
| Website | courierpress |
The Evansville Courier & Press is a daily newspaper based in Evansville, Indiana. It serves about 30,000 daily and 50,000 Sunday readers.
History
[edit]The Evansville Courier was founded in 1845 by William Newton, a young attorney. Its first issue was printed two years before the city had a charter. The Evansville Press was founded in 1906 by Edward W. Scripps as an afternoon daily.
Both papers were separate and fierce competitors until 1937, when the Evansville Press was flooded and the Evansville Courier agreed to print their competitor's paper. In 1938, the two papers formed a joint operating agreement to handle business affairs.[1] The two papers retained separate staffs and editorial policies, but published a joint Sunday edition with two editorial pages from the two papers.
The E. W. Scripps Company sold the Press and bought the Courier in 1986. The joint Sunday edition was replaced by a Sunday edition of the Courier. The two newspapers continued to publish separate editions until the Evansville Press was discontinued as a separate newspaper on December 31, 1998. The Courier was renamed the Courier & Press.
In 2015, the newspaper was purchased by Gannett.[2]
Notable contributors
[edit]- Karl Kae Knecht, cartoonist and photographer
- Edward J. Meeman, began his journalism career at the Evansville Press as a $4 a week cub reporter; later edited the Memphis Press-Scimitar and encouraged environmental reporting[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "1937 flood prompted operating agreement". Evansville Courier & Press. Archived from the original on December 12, 2004. Retrieved October 20, 2008.
- ^ "Gannett to buy Journal Media Group, including Evansville Courier & Press. The newspaper is no longer printed in Evansville, as Gannett sold the Courier & Press building on Walnut Street and reduced the staff by more than 50 percent". courierpress.com. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ^ "Edward John Meeman". Tennessee Encyclopedia. January 1, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2015.