Lexington Herald-Leader
Newspaper based in Lexington, Kentucky / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Lexington Herald-Leader [2] is a newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and based in Lexington, Kentucky. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paid circulation of the Herald-Leader is the second largest in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | The McClatchy Company[1] |
Editor | Richard Green |
Staff writers | 143 |
Founded | 1870; 154 years ago (1870) (as the Lexington Daily Press) |
Headquarters | 100 Midland Avenue Lexington, Kentucky 40508 United States |
Circulation | 34,888 Daily 68,545 Sunday (as of 2017)[2] |
ISSN | 0745-4260 |
Website | kentucky |
The newspaper has won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, and the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.[3] It had also been a finalist in six other Pulitzer awards in the 22-year period up until its sale in 2006, a record that was unsurpassed by any mid-sized newspaper in the United States during the same time frame.[4]