The Georgia Gazette was a weekly alternative newspaper in Savannah, Georgia that took its name from Georgia's first newspaper, also founded in Savannah in 1763.[1] Its owners and publishers were Marjorie Scardino and Albert Scardino. It was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1984, the first time in twenty years that such a prize had been bestowed on a weekly newspaper.[2] Despite this recognition, however, the newspaper became financially infeasible to publish and closed in 1985.[3] Albert Scardino went on to write for The New York Times, and Marjorie Scardino later became CEO of Pearson PLC.

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  1. ↑ "Georgia Historic Newspapers". Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  2. ↑ "It's Black and White and in the Red Overall, but Their Paper Won a Pulitzer for the Scardinos". People. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  3. ↑ "The Georgia Gazette, a Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper, will fold". Retrieved 2020-01-22.
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