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[[Image:CJ Dispenser.jpg|right|thumb|The ''Courier-Journal'' is available throughout the greater Louisville area, and throughout almost all of Kentucky.]]
[[Image:CJ Dispenser.jpg|right|thumb|The ''Courier-Journal'' is available throughout the greater Louisville area, and throughout almost all of Kentucky.]]
'''''The Courier-Journal''''', nicknamed the '''''"C-J"''''', is the main [[newspaper]] for the city of [[Louisville, Kentucky]], USA, and is the ''de facto'' state newspaper of [[Kentucky]].
'''''The Courier-Journal''''', nicknamed the '''''"C-J"''''', is the main [[newspaper]] for the city of [[Louisville, Kentucky]], USA. According to the ''1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook'', the paper is the 48th largest daily paper in the [[United States]] and the single largest in [[Kentucky]].


''The Courier-Journal'' also owns the [[alternative newspaper|alternative]] weekly paper ''[[Velocity (newspaper)|Velocity]]''.
''The Courier-Journal'' also owns the [[alternative newspaper|alternative]] weekly paper ''[[Velocity (newspaper)|Velocity]]''.

Revision as of 04:37, 26 September 2005

The Courier-Journal is available throughout the greater Louisville area, and throughout almost all of Kentucky.

The Courier-Journal, nicknamed the "C-J", is the main newspaper for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th largest daily paper in the United States and the single largest in Kentucky.

The Courier-Journal also owns the alternative weekly paper Velocity.

History

The Courier-Journal was created from the merger of several newspapers introduced in Kentucky in the 1800s.

Pioneer paper The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature, was founded in 1826 in Louisville when the city was an early settlement of less than 7,000 individuals. In 1830 a new newspaper, The Louisville Daily Journal, began distribution in the city and, in 1832, absorbed The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature.

In 1844, another newspaper, the Louisville Morning Courier was founded in Louisville. The Louisville Daily Journal and the Louisville Morning Courier were the news leaders in Louisville and were politically opposed throughout the Civil War; The Journal was against slavery while the Courier was pro-Confederacy.

In the mid-1860s, near the end of the Civil War, Henry Watterson became the editor of The Journal. During secret negotions in 1868, The Journal and the Courier merged and the first edition of The Courier-Journal was delivered to Louisvillians on Sunday morning, 8 November, 1868.

The Courier-Journal founded a companion afternoon edition of the paper, The Louisville Times, in May 1884.

In 1918, Judge Robert Worth Bingham purchased two-thirds interest in the newspapers and acquired the remaining stock in 1920. In 1933, the newspapers passed to his son, Barry Bingham, Sr., and in 1971, Barry Bingham, Jr. succeeded his father as the newspapers' editor and publisher.

Barry Bingham, Jr. served as editor and publisher until he resigned in 1986, shortly after his father announced that the newspaper company was for sale.

In July 1986, Gannett Company, Inc. purchased the newspaper company and appointed George N. Gill President and Publisher. Gill had been with the newspaper and the Binghams for over two decades, working his way up from reporter to Chief Executive Officer of the Bingham Companies. In 1993, Gill retired and Edward E. Manassah became President and Publisher.

In early 1987, publication of The Louisville Times, an afternoon publication that had experienced declining readership, ceased.

As of 2005, the C-J has received nine Pulitzer Prizes and is read by an estimated 492,000 million people daily and 670,900 people on Sundays.[1]

Awards

Pulitzer Prize