The Tuscaloosa News is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama , United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama. It is owned by Gannett.
7-592: In 2012, Halifax Media Group acquired the Tuscaloosa News . Prior to that, the paper's owner was The New York Times Company . The New York Times Company acquired the News in 1985 from the Public Welfare Foundation, a charitable entity. The News had been donated to that foundation by its owner Edward Marsh, along with other newspapers he owned, before his death in 1964. In 2015, Halifax
14-402: A week earlier in the year. This article about an Alabama newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Halifax Media Group Halifax Media Group was an American newspaper company owning more than 30 newspapers in five Southeastern U.S. States . It was founded on March 31, 2010, when a group of investors purchased The Daytona Beach News-Journal from
21-593: Is home to the University of Alabama, the News places particular emphasis on coverage of its sports programs, and maintains a separate website for that coverage. Since late 2012, the Tuscaloosa News has become available in the Birmingham, Alabama , area. The reason for its expansion into Birmingham is to fill a perceived void in the market when the Birmingham News cut back publication to three days
28-574: The Black Warrior River . The Tuscaloosa News has received two Pulitzer Prizes . The first was in 1957, when the paper won the prize for editorial writing, for Buford Boone's editorials on the issue of segregation at the University of Alabama , as exemplified by " What A Price For Peace ". The second Pulitzer Prize was awarded for the paper's outstanding reporting on the tornado outbreaks of April 25 to 28, 2011 . Because Tuscaloosa
35-648: The South Lake Press in Clermont, Florida and News-Sun of Sebring, Florida . In 2014, Halifax acquired the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Massachusetts. In November 2014, New Media Investment Group announced its acquisition of Halifax. The company was created with the assistance of Stephens Inc. In 2015, GateHouse Media purchased the 36 newspapers then owned by Halifax Media. In 2019, GateHouse Media merged with Gannett, Inc ., owner of
42-591: The Davidson family, who had owned it for 82 years. On December 27, 2011, The New York Times Company announced it was selling its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Group. On June 1, 2012, Halifax announced it was acquiring the Florida and North Carolina papers of Freedom Communications . In 2013, Halifax acquired three newspapers from HarborPoint Media: the Daily Commercial of Leesburg, Florida ,
49-507: Was acquired by GateHouse Media (legally known as New Media Investment Group). In 2019, Gatehouse's parent company was purchased by Gannett. The News has a 12-month average circulation in 2008 of 32,700 daily and 34,600 Sunday. Of the 25 daily newspapers published in Alabama, the News has the fifth-highest daily circulation. Beginning in 2001, the News constructed and occupied a new 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m) facility overlooking
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