The Tuskegee News

The Tuskegee News is a weekly newspaper based in Tuskegee, Alabama with a circulation of about 3,800.[2] The paper was established in 1865[3] by A. F. Henderson & Co.[4]

The Tuskegee News
TypeWeekly Newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Gayle Davis
PublisherGuys Rhodes[1]
EditorGuys Rhodes
Founded1865
HeadquartersTuskegee, Alabama, United States
Circulation3,800
Websitewww.thetuskegeenews.com

The newspaper is currently owned by Gayle Davis, the widow of former owner and award-winning journalist,[5] Paul Davis.[6]

History

The Early Years

The Tuskegee News was started after the Southwestern Baptist, a Baptist paper in central and south Alabama, was ordered to be burned by men associated with Wilson's Raid. The Union Army believed that the Baptist, along with a number of other religious papers, had exerted a radicalizing influence by combining religious, millennialist language with denunciations of Northern tyranny.[7] The owners of the Baptist, Rev. Samuel Henderson and H. E. Taliaferro, were promised their production plant would be spared if no religious paper were to be published in Tuskegee. It was with the Baptist's plant that Fuller Henderson, Samuel Henderson's son, started the Tuskegee News.[8]

The News went through many editors in the early years, the most prominent of them being C. W. Hare. Hare was an established attorney[9] and political figure in Macon County when he became editor of the News in 1895.[10] In 1913, he became the president of the Screws Monument Association after publishing a suggestion that Alabama editors should honor the late William Wallace Screws,[11] a confederate soldier, Secretary of State for Alabama, and editor for the Montgomery Advertiser.[12]

1960 - Current

Over 100 years after its establishment, J. J. Johnson became the first black editor of the Tuskegee News.[13]

The original building housing the Tuskegee News burned down in 2004.[2]

In 2010, the News was awarded 'Most Improved' in its division by the Alabama Press Association.[14]

Awards
APA Better Newspaper Contest[15][16][17][14]
Year Award Place Recipient
2018 Best Sports Coverage 3rd staff
2018 Best Local News Coverage 3rd staff
2017 Best Editorial Page or Section 2nd staff
2017 Best Editorial Column or Commentary 1st Guy Rhodes
2012 Best Photo Essay 1st Jacquelyn Carlisle
2010 Most Improved 1st staff
2010 Best Editorial Page or Section 1st staff
2010 Best Local News Coverage 3rd staff
2010 Best Business Story or Column 1st Jeff Thompson
2010 Best Business Story or Column 2nd Guy Rhodes
2010 Best Humorous Column 1st Paul Davis

References
  1. "The Tuskegee News: Contact Us".
  2. Taylor, Kevin (12 Feb 2004). "Building lost, but not 'News'". The Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  3. Alabama Official and Statistical Register. State of Alabama, Department of Archives and History. 1915. p. 292.
  4. Rowell's American Newspaper Directory. 1869. p. 8.
  5. "Paul Davis, former Times-Journal editor, dies at 74 - The Selma Times‑Journal". The Selma Times‑Journal. 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  6. Editor/Publisher, Noted in Passing by Guy Rhodes. "Paul Davis' impact continues to serve in many ways". The Tuskegee News. Retrieved 2018-10-11.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  7. Nichols-Belt, Traci (2011-08-18). Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781614233343.
  8. "Tuskegee, Alabama, Thursday Morning, May 6". The Tuskegee News. 6 May 1915. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  9. "Tuskegee News". 27 Aug 1908. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  10. "Our Southern Home". 17 Sep 1896. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  11. "Monument to Be Erected In Honor of Major Screws". The Montgomery Advertiser. 5 Oct 1913. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  12. "William Wallace Screws". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  13. Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. Jul 1982. pp. 58. tuskegee news.
  14. "APA Better Newspaper Contest Award Winners Announced" (PDF). Al.com. 5 May 2010.
  15. "APA Better Newspaper Editorial Contest Award Winners Announced" (PDF). Alabama Press Association. 21 July 2018.
  16. "APA Better Newspaper Contest Award Winners Announced" (PDF). Alabama Press Association. 8 July 2017.
  17. "Carlisle, Rhodes claim APA journalism awards". The Tuskegee News. 28 June 2012.
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