The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer was founded in 1828 as the Columbus Enquirer by Mirabeau B. Lamar. In 1874, the weekly Columbus Enquirer merged with Columbus's first daily newspaper, the Daily Sun, to form the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. The newspaper was published under this name for many years before eventually dropping the hyphen and reverting back to the name Columbus Enquirer. It was purchased by R. W. Page in 1930. For many years the morning Columbus Enquirer and the afternoon Columbus Ledger, a newspaper founded in 1886, and also owned by R. W. Page, published a combined Sunday edition known as the Sunday Ledger-Enquirer. Knight Newspapers acquired the company in 1973, and in 1988 the newspapers merged the daily edition as well, adpoting the name Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. Knight Ridder was acquired by The McClatchy Company in 2006. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun was awarded the 1926 & 1955 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service.
Circulation estimate: 20,183
This newspaper is owned by McClatchy Company.
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Tim Regan-Porter Named Editor of the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer promotes Dimon Kendrick-Holmes to executive editor, effective June 2012. He previously served as managing editor there. Prior to that, he was features editor. I have read the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer all my life. I began my personal
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-- In June 2018, Tim Regan-Porter replaced Dimon Kendrick-Holmes as the executive editor of the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.
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subscription when I returned to Columbus in 1971.
The quality of writing has lessened with each passing year. Knowledge of English grammar is apparently not a consideration when choosing your writers.
In the history of the paper above, for instance, in the third sentence, the writer states: "...The newspaper was published under this name for many years before eventually dropping the hyphen and reverting back to the name Columbus Enquirer." "Revert back" is such an...
Posted by Jeff, Midland, March 4, 2012Also in Georgia...
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