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in 2006. Beginning Nov. 16, 2019, the Ledger-Enquirer began printing just six days a week, offering a Saturday newspaper in digital-only form. In June 2024, the newspaper announced it will reduce its print frequency to two days a week.
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were awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their "complete news coverage and fearless editorial attack on widespread corruption in neighboring
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was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service "for the service which it rendered in its brave and energetic fight against the
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acquired the company in 1973, and in 1988 the papers merged the daily edition as well, adopting the name
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and served as its third President. The newspaper is a two-time recipient of the
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People and Machines Behind the Ledger Enquirer Newspapers
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who later played a pivotal role in the founding of the
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Columbus Enquirer Sun


newspaper
Broadsheet
The McClatchy Company
Columbus, Georgia
Circulation
ISSN
0898-3860
ledger-enquirer.com
downtown
Columbus, Georgia
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Republic of Texas
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
A pamphlet explaining and describing the what happens at the Ledger Enquirer Newspaper.
Knight Newspapers
The McClatchy Company
Ku Klux Klan
evolution
Negro
lynching
Phenix City, Alabama
Georgia (U.S. state) portal
Journalism portal
Media in Columbus, Georgia
List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state)
"Our Markets"
"McClatchy | Markets"

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