The Gainesville Sun

The Gainesville Sun

Infobox Newspaper
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caption = The March 17, 2006 front page of
"The Gainesville Sun"
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1876
owners = The New York Times Company
headquarters = 2700 SW 13th St.
Gainesville, FL 32608-2015
United States
editor = Jim Osteen
publisher = James E. Doughton
circulation =
ISSN = 0163-4925
website = [http://www.gainesville.com/ gainesville.com]

"The Gainesville Sun" (ISSN|0163-4925) is a newspaper published daily in Gainesville, Florida, United States, covering the North-Central portion of the state. It is a part of the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group. The paper is published by James E. Doughton, the paper's Executive Editor is Jim Osteen, managing editor is Jacki Levine, and the editorial page editor is Ron Cunningham.

History

The paper was founded in July 1876 as the "Gainesville Times", by brothers E. M. and William Wade Hampton, and was renamed to the "Gainesville Sun" in February 1879.cite book | author = Steve Rajtar | title = A Guide to Historic Gainesville | year = 2007 | publisher = The History Press | id = ISBN 1596292172 | pages = p. 38] cite news | url = http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040526/NEWS/105260020&SearchID=73248045908317 | title = Covering the Community Since 1876 | work = The Gainesville Sun | date = May 26, 2004 | accessdate = 2008-02-05] It went through a series of ownership and name changes in the 1880s and 1890s, first being consolidated with Henry Hamilton McCreary's "Weekly Bee" as the "Gainesville Sun and Bee", then as the "Gainesville Daily Sun", and finally back to the "Gainesville Sun".

It was bought by W.M. Pepper, Sr., in 1917 for $50,000, and was published by the Pepper family for three generations, until it was sold to the Cowles Media Company in 1962. In 1971, it was sold to The New York Times Company.

An online edition was launched in 1995, initially called "SunOne", and later simply "GainesvilleSun.com". In 2005, it launched "The Gainesville Guardian", a weekly paper aimed at East Gainesville and the city's African-American population, though this prompted some complaints about African-American news being segregated into a separate newspaper. [cite news | title = Gainesville's blacks divided on Sun's new community paper | work = The Orlando Sentinel | date = July 25, 2005]

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. Davis, Jr. won in 1971 for his editorials in support of peaceful desegregation of the local school system.

References

External links

* [http://www.gainesville.com/ Gainesville.com] , "Gainesville Sun" home page


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