Gwinnett Daily Post
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Times-Journal Inc.
Publisher(formerly) J.K. Murphy[1]
Founded1995 (1995)
HeadquartersLawrenceville, Georgia[2]
Circulation64,113 (as of 2013)[3]
ISSN1086-0096
Websitegwinnettdailypost.com

The Gwinnett Daily Post is a daily newspaper published in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and serves as the county's legal organ.[4] The newspaper is owned by Times-Journal Inc. and prints Wednesday and Sunday each week.[5]

History

In 1970 advertising director Bruce Still left his job at the Gwinnett Daily News to start a weekly publication in Lawrenceville, the Lawrenceville Home Weekly.[6][7] In 1973 it was renamed The Home Weekly[8] and was published until 1987, when it was renamed The Gwinnett Home Weekly to reflect its expanded readership and circulation.[9] These were weekly publications that served Lawrenceville and surrounding Gwinnett County. In 1992 the Gwinnett Home Weekly changed its name to the Gwinnett Post-Tribune and began publishing twice a week.[1][10] The newspaper was owned by Still Advertising and Promotions[9][10] until 1995, when Gray Communications purchased it for $3.7 Million[11] and reorganized it as a daily publication, the Gwinnett Daily Post, which published Tuesday through Saturday.[1] In 2005 Gray's newspaper holdings were spun off into a separate company which was named Triple Crown Media.[12] Triple Crown Media changed its name to Southern Community Newspapers Incorporated in 2010.[13]

A Sunday edition of the paper was added in 1997 due to its expanding circulation, and the Tuesday publication was dropped in 2012.[7]

In November 2022, the paper was sold by Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. to Times-Journal Inc.[14]

Circulation

By 1996 the newly owned and renamed Gwinnett Daily Post had a circulation of 13,055, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations's September 1996 report. Gwinnett County officials designated the Gwinnett Daily Post as the county's official legal organ that same year.[15] In January 1997 the Gwinnett Daily Post partnered with Northeast Gwinnett Cable Vision to provide its customers with free Gwinnett Daily Post subscriptions, which were purchased at a discounted rate by Northeast Gwinnett Cable Vision.[16] The agreement added subscriptions for over 38,000 cable customers, which more than tripled the Post's circulation.[15][17]

In response to the subscription partnership, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution filed a lawsuit in 1997 against Gwinnett County to prevent them from using the Gwinnett Daily Post as the county's legal organ. They argued that cable customers were not considered paid subscriptions, citing a Georgia statute that required 85% of a newspaper's circulation be paid subscribers in order to be designated as a county's legal organ.[18] The lawsuit was dismissed by a Gwinnett Superior Court[19] which was appealed and taken to the Georgia Supreme Court. That court ruled in favor of the Gwinnett Daily Post and dismissed the lawsuit.[20]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gwinnett Newspaper History". Gwinnett Daily Post. Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  2. ^ "Contact Us". Gwinnett Daily Post. Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  3. ^ "2013 Georgia Newspaper Directory" (PDF). Georgia Press Association. January 1, 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  4. ^ "Legal Organs". Georgia Press Association. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  5. ^ "Briefs". NewsInc. February 20, 2012. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  6. ^ "About Lawrenceville home weekly. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1970-1973". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  7. ^ a b "Company History". Gwinnett Daily Post. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  8. ^ "About The home weekly. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1973-1987". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  9. ^ a b "About The Gwinnett home weekly. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1987-199?". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  10. ^ a b "About Gwinnett post-tribune. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1992-1995". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  11. ^ "Gray Communications Systems, Inc. History". Funding Universe. Archived from the original on September 23, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  12. ^ "Atlanta-based TV-station operator to spin off newsletter, wireless units". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. August 4, 2005. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  13. ^ "Daily Post's parent company changes name". Gwinnett Daily Post. March 5, 2010. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  14. ^ "MDJ parent company buys six Georgia newspapers". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  15. ^ a b Christopher, L. Carol (February 16, 1998). "Georgians Battle Over Linked Sales: Gwinnett Daily Post raises its circulation by going straight to cable subscribers". NewsInc. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  16. ^ "Ga. system, local paper team up to launch news channel. (Northeast Gwinnett CableVision; Gray Communications Systems Inc.)". Multichannel News. February 10, 1997. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  17. ^ "A paper's piggyback ride on cable Georgia daily to triple its circulation". NewsInc. February 3, 1997. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  18. ^ Bowers, Michael J. (May 9, 1997). "Unofficial Opinion 97-14 - Attorney General of Georgia Michael J. Bowers". georgia.gov. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  19. ^ Viele, Lawrence (October 15, 1997). "Papers in legal battle". Augusta Chronicle. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
  20. ^ "Newspaper employee sent to jail for trying to sell secrets". AP Online. April 26, 1998. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
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