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The Gainesville Sun Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner The New York Times Company Publisher James E. Doughton Editor Jim Osteen Founded 1876 Headquarters 2700 SW 13th St.

Gainesville, FL 32608-2015

United States ISSN 0163-4925 Website gainesville.com

The Gainesville Sun (ISSN 0163-4925) is a newspaper published daily in Gainesville, Florida, United States, covering the North-Central portion of the state. It is a part of the New York Times Regional Media Group. The paper is published by James E. Doughton, the paper's Executive Editor is Jim Osteen, managing editor is Jacki Levine, and the editorial page editor is Ron Cunningham. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Awards 3 References 4 External links //

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.[1][2] 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.[1]

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 Cowles Media Company in 1962. In 1971, it was sold to The New York Times Company.[2]

An online edition was launched in 1995, initially called SunOne, and later simply GainesvilleSun.com.[2] In 2005, it launched The Gainesville Guardian, a weekly paper aimed at East Gainesville and the city's African-American population, though this prompted some complaints about African-American news being segregated into a separate newspaper.[3]

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. Davis, Jr. won in 1971 for his editorials in support of peaceful desegregation of the local school system.[2]

References ^ a b Steve Rajtar (2007). A Guide to Historic Gainesville. The History Press. pp. 38. ISBN 1596292172. ^ a b c d "Covering the Community Since 1876". The Gainesville Sun. May 26, 2004. http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040526/NEWS/105260020&SearchID=73248045908317. Retrieved on 2008-02-05. ^ "Gainesville's blacks divided on Sun's new community paper". The Orlando Sentinel. July 25, 2005.

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