The Commercial Appeal

The Commercial Appeal
The April 8, 2016 front page of
The Commercial Appeal
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Gannett
PublisherMike Jung[1]
EditorMark Russell[2]
Founded1841 (as The Appeal)
Headquarters495 Union Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee, 38103
United States
Circulation94,775 Daily
133,788 Sunday
(March 2013)[3]
ISSN0745-4856
OCLC number9227552
Websitecommercialappeal.com

The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983. The 2016 purchase by Gannett of Journal Media Group (Scripps' direct successor) effectively gave it control of the two major papers in western and central Tennessee, uniting the Commercial Appeal with Nashville's The Tennessean.

The Commercial Appeal is a seven-day morning paper. It is distributed primarily in Greater Memphis, including Shelby, Fayette, and Tipton counties in Tennessee; DeSoto, Tate, and Tunica counties in Mississippi; and in Crittenden County in Arkansas. These are the contiguous counties to the city of Memphis.

The Commercial Appeal won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its opposition of the Ku Klux Klan's operations in the region. In 1994, the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning by Michael Ramirez.[4]

  1. ^ Russell, Mark (May 26, 2017). "Mike Jung named new president of The Commercial Appeal". Commercialappeal.com. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  2. ^ Charlier, Tom (June 28, 2017). "Mark Russell named executive editor of The Commercial Appeal". Commercialappeal.com. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  3. ^ "Total Circ for US Newspapers". Alliance for Audited Media. March 31, 2013. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013. Retrieved June 30, 2013.
  4. ^ Pérez-peña, Richard (April 7, 2008). "Washington Post Wins 6 Pulitzer Prizes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 16, 2017.