The Georgia Gazette
| Type | Digital |
|---|---|
| Format | Independent |
| Founder(s) | Matthew Sayle |
| Publisher | Matthew Sayle |
| Founded | January 2020 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Richmond Hill, Georgia |
| Circulation | 100,000+ daily website pageviews |
| Website | thegeorgiagazette |
The Georgia Gazette was a weekly alternative newspaper in Savannah, Georgia that took its name from Georgia's first newspaper, also founded in Savannah in 1763.[1] Its owners and publishers were Marjorie Scardino and Albert Scardino. It was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1984, the first time in twenty years that such a prize had been bestowed on a weekly newspaper.[2] Despite this recognition, however, the newspaper became financially infeasible to publish and closed in 1985.[3] Albert Scardino went on to write for The New York Times, and Marjorie Scardino later became CEO of Pearson PLC.
The Georgia Gazette was relaunched (January 2020) in digital format by Richmond Hill, Georgia native, Matthew Sayle, with an emphasis on crime, covering 20 counties in Georgia as of June 2020.
References
- ^ "Georgia Historic Newspapers". Retrieved 2020-01-22.
- ^ "It's Black and White and in the Red Overall, but Their Paper Won a Pulitzer for the Scardinos". Retrieved 2020-01-22.
- ^ "The Georgia Gazette, a Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper, will fold". Retrieved 2020-01-22.