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The September 1, 2005 front page of The Sun Herald |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | The McClatchy Company |
| Publisher | Ricky Mathews |
| Editor | Stan Tiner |
| Founded | 1884 (as Daily Herald) |
| Headquarters | 205 DeBuys Road Gulfport, MS 39507-2837 United States |
| Circulation | 47,346 Daily 55,931 Sunday[1] |
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| Website: www.SunHerald.com | |
The Sun Herald is a U.S. newspaper based in Biloxi, Mississippi, that serves readers along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Broadsheet is the largest of the various Newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more The McClatchy Company is an American Publishing company based in Sacramento California, that operates a number of Newspapers and Websites Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson. Mississippi ( is a state located in the Deep South of the United States The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This is a list of the daily Newspapers in the World by average circulation The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. The Gulf Coast region of the United States comprises the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. It is owned by The McClatchy Company, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States. The McClatchy Company is an American Publishing company based in Sacramento California, that operates a number of Newspapers and Websites
The Sun Herald offices and printing presses were squarely hit by Hurricane Katrina in the summer of 2005, but the newspaper never missed an edition. Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Some of the staff evacuated in advance of the storm to Columbus, Georgia, where then-owner Knight Ridder owned the Ledger-Enquirer. Columbus is a City in Muscogee County, Georgia, United States. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer is a McClatchy newspaper headquartered in Columbus Georgia, in the United States. From the Columbus paper's newsroom, The Sun Herald editors and designers, with the help of Knight Ridder journalists from across the country, produced daily editions of The Sun Herald for eleven days, until power could be restored to Biloxi and the newspaper could be produced at its plant there.
The Sun Herald was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, along with The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The 2006 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 17, 2006. For the first time since 1997 the Pulitzer board declined to award a Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service has been awarded since 1918 for a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper through the use of its journalistic The Times-Picayune is a daily Newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. It is the first Pulitzer for the newspaper. [2]