CourierJournal News for Louisville
The main newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky USA, the CourierJournal
starts its story back in the 1800s when it was created from the merging
of other several Kentucky newspapers. Such newspapers with history were
the Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature, and then the Louisville
Daily Journal.
Another
newspaper that wrote part of the history of the CourierJournal is the
Louisville Morning Courier whose political bias opposed that of the
Louisville Daily Journal during the Civil War. The Courier supported
the Confederacy’s views and the Journal was against slavery.
The Union acted against the Courier that had to move to Nashville;
however it returned after the war and reassumed a strong position. The
first edition of the CourierJournal appeared in 1868, on Sunday morning
thanks to the supported efforts of the editor Henry Watterson.
It was Henry Watterson who set the CourierJournal tradition. He made
the paper emerge as the leading paper in Kentucky, as he pushed for
the industrialization of the region and for the United States to enter
World War I. He brought the CourierJournal its first Pulitzer Prize.
Though it changed several owners the CourierJournal continued on an
ascending path and won 10 Pulitzer Prizes in 2005, enjoying a place
among the most influential newspapers in the United States, offering
besides a daily issue, a free alternative weekly paper: Velocity.
