Montgomery Advertiser
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The Montgomery Advertiser is a daily newspaper located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1829.
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.
Controversy
The "Advertiser" also interviewed several former Southern Poverty Law Center affiliates who alleged financial improprieties on the part of the Center. Pamela Summers, formerly a legal fellow with the Center, told the newspaper that the Center's legal department operates "as though the sole, overriding goal is to make money." Summers accused Dees of avoiding "go(ing) to court" on discrimination cases and instead relying upon financial contributions to obtain money. [link]The Center threatened legal action against the newspaper during the publication of the series, and lobbied against its consideration for journalism awards. Nonetheless, the investigative series was a finalist for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize.
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