The Courier-Journal

525 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 582-4011
www.courier-journal.com

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Publisher: Denise Ivey
Executive Editor and Vice President/News:Bennie Ivory
Founded: 1868
Joined Gannett: 1986
Employees: 1,100
Circulation: 211,616 morning; 275,015 Sunday

Milestones:
The Courier-Journal’s history began with four earlier newspapers: The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature, The Louisville Journal, the Louisville Daily Democrat and the Louisville Morning Courier. In 1868, The Courier and the Journal merged as The Courier-Journal, under editor Henry Watterson. In 1884, The Louisville Times was founded, under editor Emmett G. Logan. The two newspapers were purchased by Gannett from the Bingham family in 1986. The Louisville Times ceased publication in 1987. Together, the two newspapers have won nine Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent one in 1989 for The Courier-Journal’s coverage of the Carrollton bus crash.

About Louisville:
Louisville's beginnings go back to 1778, when General George Rogers Clark founded a settlement at the Falls of the Ohio River. It was later named Louisville in honor of King Louis XVI of France, a key backer of the American Revolution. Each spring, the Kentucky Derby is held at Louisville's Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May. The city is also the hometown of boxing's "Greatest," Muhammad Ali, Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC) and Hillerich & Bradsby's Louisville Slugger baseball bat factory and museum, with its six-story-tall bat and 17-ton limestone ball glove. Louisville is also well known for its performing arts, such as Actors Theatre of Louisville, producer of the internationally acclaimed Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Metro population: 1,060,342
Median family household income: $46,259
Median age: 37.3
Largest employers: United Parcel Service, Jefferson County Public Schools, GE Appliances, Ford Motor Co., Kentucky State Government, Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services, Inc., University of Louisville, City of Louisville, Humana, Inc., Alliant Health System
Key colleges: University of Louisville, Spalding University, Jefferson Community College, Indiana University Southeast, Bellarmine College, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Sullivan College