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Pine Bluff Commercial
Daily newspaper in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pine Bluff Commercial is a newspaper that serves Southern Arkansas and was founded in 1897 as the Pine Bluff Daily Commercial. It was renamed to its current name in 1912.[1] In 1969, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing on civil rights.
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History
The paper began as a family owned paper, by the Freeman family,[2] until 1987, when it was sold to Donrey Media Group.[3] The paper had been an afternoon paper from its inception until 1992, when it became a morning paper. Before that transition, weekend papers were still delivered in the morning.[2] In 2020, WEHCO Media acquired the paper from Gannett.[4] The paper had joined Gannett after Gannett acquired GateHouse in 2019.[5] The paper was part of GateHouse after a line of acquisitions, wherein Donrey became Stephens Media Group in 2002 – after having been acquired by Stephens Media in 1993.[6] In 2015, Stephens was acquired by New Media Investment Group,[7] which itself was the parent company of GateHouse until New Media merged GateHouse into Gannett in 2019.[8]
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Pulitzer Prize
In 1969, the newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial journalist, Paul Greenberg. The prize is "[f]or his editorials during 1968."[9]
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