.jpg) Meridian Star Headquarters | |
| Type | Triweekly (formerly adaily newspaper)[1] |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Carpenter Media Group |
| Founder(s) | Charles Pinckney Dement and James Washington Dement |
| Publisher | Bill Atkinson |
| Editor | David Bohrer |
| Founded | 1898, asThe Evening Star |
| Headquarters | 814 22nd Avenue Meridian, Mississippi 39302  United States |
| Circulation | 16,188 daily (as of 2007)[2] |
| ISSN | 1064-9549 |
| OCLC number | 10362622 |
| Website | meridianstar |
The Meridian Star is anewspaper published inMeridian, Mississippi. Formerly adaily newspaper, it switched to atriweekly format in 2020, publishing on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings. The paper coversLauderdale County and adjoining portions of westernAlabama and easternMississippi.[1]
Founded asThe 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 renamedThe 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]
Jack Wardlaw, theBaton Rouge bureau chief of theNew Orleans Times-Picayune, began his journalism career atThe Star in 1959 as a city hall reporter.[7]
According to themasthead, the price for a single copy is $1.50 for all print editions.[8]
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.)
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