The Gazette is a
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based in
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,
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. It is published daily by
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-based
Freedom CommunicationsFreedom Communications, Inc. is a media conglomerate in the United States. It owns approximately 100 daily and weekly newspapers in the US, with a combined daily circulation of nearly one million subscribers, and also operates over seventy local news websites...
. It is the second largest daily newspaper in the chain and has the second largest circulation in Colorado, behind the Denver Post.
History
In 1946, the
Colorado Springs Gazette and the
Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph merged to form the
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. The same year, it was purchased by
R.C. Hoiles-External links:*Doherty, Brian , Reason...
's.
Freedom NewspapersFreedom Communications, Inc. is a media conglomerate in the United States. It owns approximately 100 daily and weekly newspapers in the US, with a combined daily circulation of nearly one million subscribers, and also operates over seventy local news websites...
.
An ad by a
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-based Sears store in the
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph in December 1955 with a misprinted telephone number to call
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sparked numerous
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telephone calls by children on December 24, 1955 to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center in Colorado Springs,
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asking about
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and led to the current
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program.
The paper was awarded the
Pulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
in 1990The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1990.Two awards for Public Service were given in 1990. 1990 was also the last year that awards were given for General News Reporting and Specialized Reporting - these categories were changed to Spot News Reporting and Beat Reporting the following year.-...
for feature writing. Its name was changed to
The Gazette in 1997.
See also
- Chuck Asay
Charles R. "Chuck" Asay is a conservative political cartoonist. He was an editorial cartoonist for the Colorado Springs Gazette until his retirement on March 28, 2007. Previously, he drew for the Taos News, Colorado Springs Sun, and briefly at the Denver Post...
- Robert H. Jackson (photographer)
Robert H. "Bob" Jackson is an American photographer. In 1964, Jackson, then of the Dallas Times-Herald, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his photograph of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby....
- Wayne Laugesen
Wayne Laugesen is an American columnist, video producer, gun rights activist and editorial page editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette. His editorials also appear in other newspapers from Gazette owner Freedom Communications, the tenth largest media company in the United States...
- Colorado Springs Independent
The Colorado Springs Independent is a newsweekly that serves the Pikes Peak region of Southern Colorado It is Colorado Springs' largest locally owned media company...
- Al Lewis
- Elmo Scott Watson
Elmo Scott Watson was an American journalist and college professor, whose longest educational stint was at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois...
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