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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The White Corporation (Christopher White Walker, Grandson ofW.L.W.) |
| Publisher | Christopher White Walker |
| Editor | Ashley Knecht Walker |
| Founded | 1890 (White Family, 1895) |
| Headquarters | 517 Merchant Street Emporia, Kansas 66801 |
| Circulation | 2,947[1] |
| Website | www |
TheEmporia Gazette is a dailynewspaper inEmporia, Kansas.
William Allen White bought the newspaper for $3,000 ($113,388 in 2024 dollars[2]) in 1895. Through his editorship, over the next five decades, he became an iconic figure in American journalism and political life. The paper rose to national prominence and influence in theRepublican Party following the 1896 publication of "What's the Matter With Kansas?", a White editorial that harshly criticizedpopulism and the Presidential campaign ofWilliam Jennings Bryan. White struck up a friendship with US PresidentTheodore Roosevelt who stayed at the White home, calledRed Rocks, during cross-country trips.
White won the1923 Pulitzer Prize for his editorial, "To an Anxious Friend", after he was arrested for a free speech violation of a newly enacted law pushed by Kansas GovernorHenry Justin Allen. White's autobiography, published posthumously, won the1947 Pulitzer Prize.
The newspaper is still published by the White family.
Besides owningThe Emporia Gazette, The White family ownsThe St. Marys Star inSt. Marys, Kansas,The Chase County Leader-News inCottonwood Falls, Kansas,[3] and as of 5 November 2013,The Westmoreland Recorder inWestmoreland, Kansas.[4] The White Corporation added theJunction City Union,The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle and theWamego Smoke Signal to its newspaper family in March 2016.[5]
On May 1, 2018, Seaton Publishing Co, Inc. purchased the Junction City Daily Union and the Flint Hills Shopper.
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