The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

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The Gazette
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids) front page.jpg
The July 27, 2005 front page
of The Gazette
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Folience
PublisherGazette Communications, Inc.
EditorZack Kucharski
Founded1883(142 years ago) (1883)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters116 3rd St Southeast
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
United States
Circulation 32,616 Daily
35,975 Saturday
37,860 Sunday(as of 2019)
ISSN 1066-0291
Website thegazette.com

The Gazette is a daily print newspaper published in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The newspaper is distributed throughout northeastern and east-central Iowa, including the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City metropolitan areas. It was formerly called The Cedar Rapids Gazette. As of September 2019, The Gazette has a circulation of 32,616 for the daily edition and 37,860 for the Sunday edition. [1]

Contents

History

The Evening Gazette was first published on January 10, 1883. [2] The paper was co-founded by Lucian H. Post and Elbridge T. Otis. [3] In March 1884, the paper was sold to Clarence Miller and Fred Faulkes. Their descendants would run the paper for the next century. [3]

In 1927, the Gazette bought The Republican and changed its name to The Evening Gazette and Republican. The name was changed again in 1932 to Cedar Rapids Gazette. [3] The word "The" was added to the name in 1936. That same year the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on corruption in state government related to illegal gambling and liquor sales. [4] [3]

In 1979, the paper's name was changed to The Gazette. [3]

In 1986, The Gazette Company formed an Employee stock ownership plan which purchased about 38% of outstanding stock. [5] The company became 100% employee owned in 2012 and was renamed to Folience in 2017. [3]

In January 2025, the newspaper announced it will cut back the number of print edition days from seven to three a week on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. [6]

TV and Radio

The Gazette Company owned KCRG-TV (the call letters stand for "Cedar Rapids Gazette") until selling it to Gray Television, with the transfer being completed on October 1, 2015. [7] [8] The company also owned KCRG radio (1600 AM) until selling the station to the owners of another local broadcaster, KZIA FM 102.9. The sale was completed on October 31, 2006, with the radio station's call letters changing to KGYM as a result. [9] SourceMedia Group also owned Decisionmark, which runs the TitanTV website, until selling it to a syndicate led by Turnstone Capital and Capitol Broadcasting Company. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Alliance for Audited Media [ dead link ]
  2. ↑ "The Evening Gazette". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. January 10, 1883. p. 2.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Highlights of The Gazette's 140 years". The Gazette. January 8, 2023. Archived from the original on January 9, 2023. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  4. ↑ "'Graft' Crusade Brings Gazette Pulitzer Prize". Quad-City Times. Associated Press. May 5, 1936. p. 1.
  5. ↑ "Gazette announces ESOP". The Gazette. May 29, 1986. p. 32.
  6. ↑ Kucharski, Zack (January 14, 2025). "Gazette switching to seven-day digital; three day print newspaper". The Gazette. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
  7. ↑ "Gray Television - Press Releases". Archived from the original on 2016-05-28. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  8. ↑ "KCRG-TV9 sold to Gray Television", KCRG.com, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Gazette Communications, September 1, 2015, archived from the original on September 3, 2015, retrieved September 1, 2015
  9. ↑ "Media: KZIA Completes Purchase, Renames Station KGYM-AM". The Gazette (Cedar Rapids). 2006-11-01. p. 8B.
  10. ↑ Kramer, Staci D. "Syndicate Buys Control Of TV Tech/Data Company Decisionmark Control; Name Changes To TitanTV Media" . Retrieved 2009-08-07.
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