The Gazette (Colorado Springs)

The Gazette

The June 16, 2009, front page of The Gazette .
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Freedom Communications
Publisher	Scott McKibben
Editor	Jeff Thomas
Founded	1946 (as Gazette-Telegraph)
Headquarters	30 S. Prospect St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903 United States
Circulation	96,127 (Daily), 108,637 (Sunday)
Official website	gazette.com

The Gazette is a newspaper based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is published daily by Irvine, California-based Freedom Communications. It is the second largest daily newspaper in the chain and has the second largest circulation in Colorado, behind the Denver Post.

History

1955 Sears ad in the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph with the misprinted telephone number that led to the NORAD Tracks Santa Program

In 1946, the Colorado Springs Gazette and the Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph merged to form the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. The same year, it was purchased by R.C. Hoiles's. Freedom Newspapers.

An ad by a Colorado Springs-based Sears store in the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph in December 1955 with a misprinted telephone number to call Santa Claus sparked numerous Christmas Eve telephone calls by children on December 24, 1955 to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado asking about Santa Claus and led to the current NORAD Tracks Santa program.^[1]

The paper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for feature writing. Its name was changed to The Gazette in 1997.

See also

	Colorado portal
	Journalism portal

• Chuck Asay
• Robert H. Jackson (photographer)
• Wayne Laugesen
• Colorado Springs Independent
• Al Lewis
• Elmo Scott Watson

References

1. ^ "NORAD will Track Santa's Trip, Dec 24, 2007, by Tom Roeder, The Gazette (Colorado Springs)". The Gazette (Colorado Springs). December 24, 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20071224/ai_n21186467/. Retrieved 2009-12-31. 

External links

• Official Website
• Official mobile website
• Freedom Communications subsidiary profile of The Gazette