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The Gainesville Sun
ISSN
0163-4925
Websitegainesville.com

The Gainesville Sun (

North-Central portion
of the state.

History

The paper was founded in July 1876 as the Gainesville Times, by brothers E. M. and William Wade Hampton, and was renamed as The Gainesville Sun in February 1879.[3][4] The paper was first printed on July 6, 1876.[5] It went through a series of ownership and name changes in the 1880s and 1890s, first being consolidated with Henry Hamilton McCreary's Weekly Bee as the Gainesville Sun and Bee, then as the Gainesville Daily Sun, and finally back to the Gainesville Sun.[3]

It was bought by W.M. Pepper Sr., in 1917 for $50,000, and was published by the Pepper family for three generations, until it was sold to the

Tampa Tribune of the time called it "a lasting blot on the people of Levy county",[7]
clearly condemning rather than justifying the massacre.

In 1971, it was sold to

New Media Investment Group.[9]

An online edition was launched in 1995, initially called SunOne, and later simply GainesvilleSun.com.

African-American population, to mixed opinions.[10]

Awards

The Gainesville Sun has won two Pulitzer Prizes: publisher John R. Harrison won in 1966 for his campaign for better housing codes, and editorialist Horance G. "Buddy" Davis Jr. won in 1971 for his editorials in support of peaceful desegregation of the local school system.[4]

References

  1. ^ Ray, Douglas (17 June 2019). "Rynni Henderson named publisher of The Gainesville Sun". The Gainseville Sun. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Member Directory". Florida Press Association. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  3. ^
    ISBN 1-59629-217-2
    .
  4. ^ a b c d "Covering the Community Since 1876". The Gainesville Sun. May 26, 2004. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
  5. ^ "Florida Historical Society wishes Happy Birthday to the Gainesville Sun". Retrieved 2014-07-07.
  6. ^ Colburn, David R. (Fall 1997) "Rosewood and America in the Early Twentieth Century", The Florida Historical Quarterly, 76 (2), pp. 175–192.
  7. ^ D'orso, Michael (1996) Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood
  8. ^ Halifax Media purchases 16 newspapers Archived 2012-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ New Media Announces Agreement to Acquire Halifax Media Group for $280.0 Million Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
  10. The Orlando Sentinel
    . July 25, 2005.

External links

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