The Meridian Star

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The Meridian Star
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Meridian Star Headquarters
Type Triweekly (formerly a daily newspaper) [1]
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Carpenter Media Group
Founder(s)Charles Pinckney Dement and James Washington Dement
PublisherBill Atkinson
EditorDavid Bohrer
Founded1898, as The Evening Star
Headquarters814 22nd Avenue
Meridian, Mississippi 39302
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Circulation 16,188 daily(as of 2007) [2]
ISSN 1064-9549
OCLC number 10362622
Website meridianstar.com

The Meridian Star is a newspaper published in Meridian, Mississippi. Formerly a daily newspaper, it switched to a triweekly format in 2020, publishing on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings. The paper covers Lauderdale County and adjoining portions of western Alabama and eastern Mississippi. [1]

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History

Founded as The Evening Star in 1898 by Charles Pinckney Dement and his son James Washington Dement, [3] [4] the paper was published each afternoon until early 2005, when morning delivery was implemented. The paper was renamed The Meridian Star in 1915 and has been Meridian's only daily newspaper since 1921. [5]

In May 2024, CNHI sold the newspaper to Carpenter Media Group. [6]

Notable staff

Jack Wardlaw, the Baton Rouge bureau chief of the New Orleans Times-Picayune , began his journalism career at The Star in 1959 as a city hall reporter. [7]

Price

According to the masthead, the price for a single copy is $1.50 for all print editions. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 Atkinson, Bill (March 31, 2020). "Letter to readers and advertisers: The Meridian Star changing to 3 days per week in print" . Meridian Star. Meridian, Mississippi. Retrieved April 30, 2020. Effective April 7, we will reduce publishing and delivering the printed newspaper to three days a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) instead of five days (Tuesday through Friday and Sunday.)
  2. ↑ CNHI-CAN Circulation [ usurped ], figures for an undetermined date, accessed March 24, 2007.
  3. ↑ Robert Hiram Henry (1922). Editors I have known since the civil war. p.  413 . Retrieved June 28, 2010.
  4. ↑ Jody Cook (February 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Dement Printing Company" (pdf). National Park Service.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) "Accompanying 1 photo, from 1979" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places Inventory.
  5. ↑ "The Meridian Star: About Us" Archived 2010-07-12 at the Library of Congress Web Archives. Retrieved on March 24, 2007.
  6. ↑ "Growing publisher buying 10 newspapers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi". Associated Press. May 24, 2024. Retrieved May 25, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Ed Anderson, "Former Times-Picayune political reporter, capital bureau chief Jack Wardlaw dies," January 6, 2012". New Orleans Times-Picayune . Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Masthead" . Meridian Star. Meridian, Mississippi. April 30, 2020. Retrieved April 30, 2020.


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