Emporia Gazette

The Emporia Gazette is a daily newspaper in Emporia, Kansas.

Emporia Gazette
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The White Corporation
(Christopher White Walker,
Grandson of W.L.W.)
PublisherChristopher White Walker
EditorAshley Knecht Walker
Founded1890 (White Family, 1895)
Headquarters517 Merchant Street
Emporia, Kansas 66801
Websitewww.emporiagazette.com

History

William Allen White bought the newspaper for $3,000 ($92.2 thousand in 2019 dollars[1]) 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 the Republican Party following the 1896 publication of "What's the Matter With Kansas?", a White editorial that harshly criticized Populism and the Presidential campaign of William Jennings Bryan. White struck up a friendship with US President Theodore Roosevelt who stayed at the White home, called Red Rocks, during cross-country trips.

White won the 1923 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 Governor Henry Justin Allen. White's autobiography, published posthumously, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.

The newspaper is still published by the White family.

Besides owning The Emporia Gazette, The White family owns The St. Marys Star, in St. Marys, Kansas, The Chase County Leader-News, in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas,[2] and as of 5 November 2013, The Westmoreland Recorder, in Westmoreland, Kansas.[3] The White Corporation added the Junction City Union, The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle and the Wamego Smoke Signal to its newspaper family in March 2016.[4]

See also

References
  1. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  2. The White Family also owns The St. Mary's Star, in St. Mary's, Kansas, and The Chase County Leader-News
  3. Emporia Gazette purchases The Westmoreland Recorder
  4. "Junction City Daily Union sells to Emporia newspaper group". Topeka Capital-Journal. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2017.


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