MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER

The '''Montgomery Advertiser''' is a daily newspaper located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1829.

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History

Awards

External links

History

The newspaper began publication in 1829 called ''The Planter's Gazette''. It became the ''Montgomery Advertiser'' in 1833. In 1903, R.F. Hudson, a young Alabama newspaperman, joined the staff of the Advertiser and began moving up through the ranks of the Company. He helped to lead the paper toward financial success, and by 1924 he owned 10% of the stock in the Company. In 1935, he bought it outright and five years later he bought ''The Alabama Journal'', a competitor that had been in publication in Montgomery since 1889.
''The Alabama Journal'' would continue to exist as a local afternoon paper.

Awards

The newspaper has earned several awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes:

★ 1928: Grover Cleveland Hall, Editorial Writing, for his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.

★ 1970: Harold Eugene Martin, Investigative Reporting, for his expose of a commercial scheme for using Alabama prisoners for drug experimentation and blood plasma collection.

★ 1988 Staff of Alabama Journal, General News Reporting. For its compelling investigation of the state's unusually high infant-mortality rate, which prompted legislation to combat the problem.

External links

★ Official website

★ History of R F Hudson & The Montgomery Advertiser

★ Gannett subsidiary profile of the ''Montgomery Advertiser''