Tuskegee News
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Macon County Economic Development Authority |
| Founder(s) | A. F. Henderson |
| Editor | Guys Rhodes |
| Founded | 1865 |
| Headquarters | Tuskegee, Alabama, United States |
| Circulation | 3,800 |
| Website | tuskegeemedia |
The Tuskegee News is a weekly newspaper based in Tuskegee, Alabama with a circulation of about 3,800.[1] The paper was established in 1865[2] by A. F. Henderson & Co.[3]
History
[edit]The early years
[edit]The Tuskegee News was started after the Southwestern Baptist, a Baptist paper in central and south Alabama, was ordered to be burned by men associated with Wilson's Raid. The Union Army believed that the Baptist, along with a number of other religious papers, had exerted a radicalizing influence by combining religious, millennialist language with denunciations of Northern tyranny.[4] The owners of the Baptist, Rev. Samuel Henderson and H. E. Taliaferro, were promised their production plant would be spared if no religious paper were to be published in Tuskegee. It was with the Baptist's plant that Fuller Henderson, Samuel Henderson's son, started the Tuskegee News.[5]
The News went through many editors in the early years, the most prominent of them being C. W. Hare. Hare was an established attorney[6] and political figure in Macon County when he became editor of the News in 1895.[7] In 1913, he became the president of the Screws Monument Association after publishing a suggestion that Alabama editors should honor the late William Wallace Screws,[8] a confederate soldier, Secretary of State for Alabama, and editor for the Montgomery Advertiser.[9]
1960 - Current
[edit]Over 100 years after its establishment, J. J. Johnson became the first black editor of the Tuskegee News.[10]
In 2004, the original building housing the Tuskegee News burned down.[1]
In 2025, Paul and Gayle Davis sold the paper to the Macon County Economic Development Authority.[11]
Awards
[edit]| Year | Award | Place | Recipient |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Best Sports Coverage | 3rd | staff |
| 2018 | Best Local News Coverage | 3rd | staff |
| 2017 | Best Editorial Page or Section | 2nd | staff |
| 2017 | Best Editorial Column or Commentary | 1st | Guy Rhodes |
| 2012 | Best Photo Essay | 1st | Jacquelyn Carlisle |
| 2010 | Most Improved | 1st | staff |
| 2010 | Best Editorial Page or Section | 1st | staff |
| 2010 | Best Local News Coverage | 3rd | staff |
| 2010 | Best Business Story or Column | 1st | Jeff Thompson |
| 2010 | Best Business Story or Column | 2nd | Guy Rhodes |
| 2010 | Best Humorous Column | 1st | Paul Davis |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Taylor, Kevin (February 12, 2004). "Building lost, but not 'News'". The Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
- ^ Alabama Official and Statistical Register. State of Alabama, Department of Archives and History. 1915. p. 292.
- ^ Rowell's American Newspaper Directory. 1869. p. 8.
- ^ Nichols-Belt, Traci (August 18, 2011). Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781614233343.
- ^ "Tuskegee, Alabama, Thursday Morning, May 6". The Tuskegee News. May 6, 1915. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ^ "Tuskegee News". August 27, 1908. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ^ "Our Southern Home". September 17, 1896. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ^ "Monument to Be Erected In Honor of Major Screws". The Montgomery Advertiser. October 5, 1913. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ^ "William Wallace Screws". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Archived from the original on September 30, 2008. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ^ Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. July 1982. pp. 58.
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- ^ Thornton, William (June 10, 2025). "A 160-year-old Alabama newspaper was saved by this group's 'bold decision'". AL.com. Retrieved June 10, 2025.
- ^ "APA Better Newspaper Editorial Contest Award Winners Announced" (PDF). Alabama Press Association. July 21, 2018.
- ^ "APA Better Newspaper Contest Award Winners Announced" (PDF). Alabama Press Association. July 8, 2017.
- ^ "Carlisle, Rhodes claim APA journalism awards". The Tuskegee News. June 28, 2012.
- ^ "APA Better Newspaper Contest Award Winners Announced" (PDF). Al.com. May 5, 2010.