Emporia Gazette

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

Emporia Gazette

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	The White Corporation (Christopher White Walker, Grandson of W.L.W.)
Publisher	Christopher White Walker
Editor	Ashley Knecht Walker
Founded	1890 (White Family, 1895)
Headquarters	517 Merchant Street Emporia, Kansas 66801
Circulation	2,947[1]
Website	www.emporiagazette.com

History

William Allen White bought the newspaper for $3,000 ($109,872 in 2023 dollars^[2]) 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,^[3] and as of 5 November 2013, The Westmoreland Recorder in Westmoreland, Kansas.^[4] The White Corporation added the Junction City Union, The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle and the Wamego Smoke Signal to its newspaper family in March 2016.^[5]

See also

• List of newspapers in Kansas
• William Allen White
• William Lindsay White
• The Emporia News, a 19th century paper published in Emporia, predecessor of the Gazette

References

1. "Browse Full Member Database | Kansas Press Association". kspress.com. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
2. 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
3. The White Family also owns The St. Mary's Star, in St. Mary's, Kansas, and The Chase County Leader-News
4. Emporia Gazette purchases The Westmoreland Recorder
5. "Junction City Daily Union sells to Emporia newspaper group". Topeka Capital-Journal. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

On May 1, 2018, Seaton Publishing Co, Inc. purchased the Junction City Daily Union and the Flint Hills Shopper.

External links

• Official website