 The June 16, 2009, front page of The Gazette | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Clarity Media Group |
| Editor | Vincent Bzdek |
| Founded | 1946 (1946) (asGazette-Telegraph) |
| Political alignment | Conservative |
| Headquarters | 30 E. Pikes Peak Ave. Colorado Springs, CO 80903 United States |
| Circulation | 93,300 Daily 156,500 Sunday[1] |
| Website | gazette |
The Gazette is a daily newspaper based inColorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It has operated since 1873.
The publication began asOut West, beginning March 23, 1872, but failed in its endeavor. The company relaunched asThe Colorado Springs Gazette, and the first issue was published on January 4, 1873.[2][3]
In 1946, theColorado Springs Gazette and theColorado Springs Evening Telegraph merged to form theColorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. The same year, it was purchased byRaymond C. Hoiles'sFreedom Newspapers.
An ad by aColorado Springs-basedSears store in theColorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph in December 1955 with a misprinted telephone number to callSanta Claus sparked numerousChristmas Eve telephone calls by children on December 24, 1955, to theContinental Air Defense Command Operations Center inColorado Springs, asking about Santa Claus, and led to the currentNORAD Tracks Santa program.[4]
The paper was awarded thePulitzer Prizein 1990 for feature writing on a home explosion. It was also awarded the Pulitzer Prizein 2014 for national reporting for reporting byDavid Philipps "... expanding the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses, stories augmented with digital tools and stirring congressional action". Philipps left theGazette soon after, moving toThe New York Times. Its name was changed toThe Gazette in 1997.
The sale ofThe Gazette to Clarity Media, a subsidiary ofthe Anschutz Corporation, closed on November 30, 2012. Joe Hight ofThe Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), another Anschutz-owned newspaper, was named editor.[1]
In late 2020,The Gazette launchedThe Denver Gazette, an online newspaper whose editorial pages lean conservative.[5]
In 1947, a group of striking employees from theGazette-Telegraph founded a rival newspaper called theColorado Springs Sun. Four decades laterFreedom Newspapers, owner of theGazette-Telegraph, bought theSun for $30 million and absorbed it into theGazette-Telegraph. At the time of closure theSun had a daily circulation of 49,000.[6]
The Gazette'sop-ed section andeditorials leans politically conservative and tend to favor Republican politicians and policies.[5]
