Laurel Leader-Call

The Laurel Leader-Call is a thrice-weekly newspaper published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in Laurel, Mississippi, United States, covering Jones County.

Laurel Leader-Call
TypeTri-weekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Gin Creek Publishing
PublisherJim Cegielski
EditorSean Murphy
FoundedAugust 11, 1911, as The Laurel Daily Argus
Headquarters318 North Magnolia Street, Laurel, Mississippi 39440, United States
Circulation8,000
Websitewww.leader-call.com

It is owned by Gin Creek Publishing, which purchased the name and subscriber list from CNHI in April 2012.

For a century Laurel's only daily newspaper, the paper was founded as The Laurel Daily Argus August 11, 1911, by Edgar G. Harris (1876-1953).[1] It later changed its name to the Laurel Daily Leader The Laurel Morning Call and the Laurel Daily Leader combined to form an evening newspaper called The Laurel Leader-Call on February 2, 1930.[2][3]

The paper was owned by Thomson Newspapers for several years. Thomson sold it in 1993 to American Publishing Company.[4] American Publishing sold to Community Newspaper Holdings in 1999.[5]

On September 1, 2011, the paper's owner, Community Newspaper Holdings|Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., announced that the Laurel Leader-Call would begin publishing on a four-day schedule: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday.[6] The newspaper's website continued to provide news, features, sports, photos and video on a daily basis until it shut down nearly seven months later, along with the newspaper itself.

CNHI folded the Leader-Call on March 29, 2012.[7]

In April 2012 the Leader-Call name and subscriber list was purchased by Gin Creek Publishing, a local business that had published the weekly The ReView of Jones County since 2007. The ReView ceased operation and the Laurel Leader-Call was reborn as a three-day-a-week publication, beginning with the April 19, 2012, edition. New publisher-editor Mark Thornton said that "People who remember when the Leader-Call was family-owned remember that it was a much better paper then. We plan to restore that proud tradition."[8]

References
  1. "Edgar Garrard Harris (1876-1953)". www.findagrave.com.
  2. "The Morning Call from Laurel, Mississippi on February 2, 1930 ยท Page 1". newspapers.com.
  3. "Leadercall.com: History", accessed March 24, 2007.
  4. "Thompson corp. sells papers". news.google.com. The Daily Gazette. May 23, 1993.
  5. "100-Year-Old Laurel Leader-Call Shuts Down Abruptly - Newspaper Death Watch". newspaperdeathwatch.com.
  6. Leader-Call to Change from 7- to 4-Day Publication Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, accessed September 2, 2011.
  7. "Special Commemorative Final Edition". Laurel Leader-Call. March 29, 2012. p. 1.
  8. "Leader-Call Reborn". The ReView of Jones County. Laurel, Miss. April 12, 2012. p. 1. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  • Laurel Leader-Call (2007). Looking back: Laurel, Mississippi. [Vancouver, Wash.]: Pediment Publishing. ISBN 9781597250955.
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