The Georgia Gazette

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The Georgia Gazette
Type Alternative newspaper
Owner(s) Marjorie Scardino and Albert Scardino
Founded1978
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication1985
City Savannah, Georgia
ISSN 0730-1138
OCLC number 7949651

The Georgia Gazette was a weekly alternative newspaper in Savannah, Georgia that took its name from Georgia's first newspaper, also founded in Savannah in 1763. [1] Its owners and publishers were Marjorie Scardino and Albert Scardino. It was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1984, the first time in twenty years that such a prize had been bestowed on a weekly newspaper. [2] Despite this recognition, however, the newspaper became financially infeasible to publish and closed in 1985. [3] Albert Scardino went on to write for The New York Times, and Marjorie Scardino later became CEO of Pearson PLC.

References

  1. ↑ "Georgia Historic Newspapers" . Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ McNeil, Donald (August 27, 1984). "It's Black and White and in the Red Overall, but Their Paper Won a Pulitzer for the Scardinos". People. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ "The Georgia Gazette, a Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper, will fold". United Press International. January 31, 1985. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
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