The Hutchinson News
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The Hutchinson News is a daily newspaper serving the city of Hutchinson, Kansas
in the United States
. The publication was awarded the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
"for its courageous and constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more equitable reapportionment
of the Kansas
Legislature
, despite powerful opposition in its own community."
The News is owned by Harris Enterprises.
In 1924, Morgan purchased the Gazette and renamed it the Herald. He published two papers, The Herald in the morning and The News at night, with separate staffs working in the same plant. When Morgan died in 1932, his wife took over the papers. A year later she sold the papers to Hutchinson Publishing Co., principal members of which were John P. and Sidney Harris. John P. Harris became publisher and circulation grew to 50,000. A Sunday paper was started in 1937 and the two papers were consolidated into The Hutchinson News-Herald in 1942.
The newspaper moved to its current headquarters in 1957 and dropped Herald from the name. In 1965, The News won journalism’s most coveted award, the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious service, for its four-year editorial and court battle for reapportionment in Kansas. In August 1988, The News converted to an all-morning publication.
The News employs approximately 120 full- and part-time employees.
, The Salina Journal
, and The Hawk Eye
of Burlington, Iowa
.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Hutchinson is the largest city in and the county seat of Reno County, Kansas, United States, northwest of Wichita, on the Arkansas River. It has been home to salt mines since 1887, thus its nickname of "Salt City", but locals call it "Hutch"...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The publication was awarded the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service has been awarded since 1918 for a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources. Those resources, as well as reporting, may include editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics,...
"for its courageous and constructive campaign, culminating in 1964, to bring about more equitable reapportionment
Apportionment (politics)
Apportionment is the process of allocating political power among a set of principles . In most representative governments, political power has most recently been apportioned among constituencies based on population, but there is a long history of different approaches.The United States Constitution,...
of the Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
Legislature
Legislature
A legislature is a kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise or lower taxes and adopt the budget and...
, despite powerful opposition in its own community."
The News is owned by Harris Enterprises.
History
The Hutchinson News began July 4, 1872, when Houston Whiteside, a young Tennessee lawyer, published the first paper. The modern Hutchinson News dates to October 10, 1895, when W.Y. Morgan purchased The News after turning over the Emporia Gazette to William Allen White. By 1920, The News had a circulation of nearly 12,000 and was in a daily battle with The Hutchinson Gazette.In 1924, Morgan purchased the Gazette and renamed it the Herald. He published two papers, The Herald in the morning and The News at night, with separate staffs working in the same plant. When Morgan died in 1932, his wife took over the papers. A year later she sold the papers to Hutchinson Publishing Co., principal members of which were John P. and Sidney Harris. John P. Harris became publisher and circulation grew to 50,000. A Sunday paper was started in 1937 and the two papers were consolidated into The Hutchinson News-Herald in 1942.
The newspaper moved to its current headquarters in 1957 and dropped Herald from the name. In 1965, The News won journalism’s most coveted award, the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious service, for its four-year editorial and court battle for reapportionment in Kansas. In August 1988, The News converted to an all-morning publication.
The News employs approximately 120 full- and part-time employees.
Ownership
Hutchinson Publishing Company operates The Hutchinson News, The Bee, a shopper publication, and LogicMaze, an Internet services company. Harris Enterprises Inc., a privately held corporation based in Hutchinson, owns Hutchinson Publishing Company. Employees, through an employee stock ownership plan, own a portion of Harris Enterprises Inc. Harris Enterprises Inc. operates five other daily newspapers (four in Kansas and one in Iowa), MarketAide, an advertising and marketing firm in Salina, and Harris Business Services, a shared services company. Its newspapers are the Garden City Telegram, Hays Daily News, Ottawa HeraldOttawa Herald
-History:In 1896, Joseph L. Bristow, who later was elected U.S. senator, and Henry J. Allen, who later became an editor at the Wichita Beacon, Kansas governor, and U.S. senator decided to buy the weekly Evening Ottawa and turn it into a daily newspaper. The Evening Ottawa was free at first,...
, The Salina Journal
The Salina Journal
The Salina Journal is a daily morning newspaper based in Salina, Kansas. Founded in 1871, it is read and delivered in north-central and north-western Kansas....
, and The Hawk Eye
The Hawk Eye
The Hawk Eye is a general-circulation newspaper based in Burlington, Iowa, and boasts itself as "Iowa's Oldest Newspaper."-History:The newspaper traces its roots to the Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser, which was established July 10, 1837, by James Clarke, and Cyrus Jacobs...
of Burlington, Iowa
Burlington, Iowa
Burlington is a city in, and the county seat of Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. The population was 25,663 in the 2010 census, a decline from the 26,839 population in the 2000 census. Burlington is the center of a micropolitan area including West Burlington, Iowa and Middletown, Iowa and...
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Editors and Publishers
- 1872 Houston Whiteside, L.J. Perry
- 1875 Fletcher Meredith
- 1889 Ralph Easley
- 1891 Marion Watson
- 1895 A.L. Sponsler
- 1895 W.Y. Morgan
- 1932 Mrs. W.Y. Morgan
- 1933 John P. Harris
- 1962 Peter Macdonald
- 1963 Peter Macdonald, John McCormally
- 1965 Stuart Awbrey
- 1979 Richard Buzbee
- 1993 Wayne Lee
- 1996 Bruce Buchanan
- 1997 Jim Bloom
- 2006 John D. Montgomery