The app also has a List mode reading option where sources are listed vertically. Even more, the Live mode groups titles by topics. In Live mode, we will group all news titles from all the recommended feeds that you add and you may read titles as they are published by the sources in one big flow. We will always try to give you the best recommendations for local news sources.Īlso, You may enter any website address and CGA Live will try and find if it has a public RSS feed, that you can add.ĬGA Live has a Live mode reading option. Our app is not a news station, it does not produce news, but it is a reading tool and helps you find the best sources and read all news that interests you in one place. It is up to you what news sources you add and choose to read. The publication continues to deliver news to the citizens of Columbus and the greater southwest Georgia and east Alabama area.CGA Live is a news feed reader for people of Columbus, Georgia, configured to search the web for reliable local RSS feeds that you may choose to add and read. In 2006 the McClatchy Company purchased Knight Ridder and its holdings, including the Ledger-Enquirer. Under their ownership, the Ledger and Enquirer would finally merge into a single daily edition in 1988, forming the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. Newspaper publisher Knight Newspapers purchased the papers in 1973 and merged with Ridder Publications the following year to form Knight Ridder. It is the only Georgia newspaper to win that particular award twice. In 1955 the Columbus Ledger and Sunday Ledger-Enquirer won its second Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of municipal corruption and organized crime in nearby Phenix City, Alabama. The papers continued their commitment to quality reporting in the years that followed. The two titles published a combined Sunday Ledger-Enquirer on the weekends. Despite being under sole ownership, the two publications continued individual circulation, with the Enquirer serving as the city’s morning edition and the Ledger as the afternoon edition. Page Corporation, publisher of the Columbus Ledger, purchased the paper the following year. The Columbus Enquirer managed to survive shortages inflicted by the Civil War (1861-65) and absorbed the Daily Sun in 1874 to become the Enquirer-Sun.Ĭourtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution.ĭespite the national recognition, the Harrises were constant victims of threats and vandalism and faced increasing debt that forced them to sell the Enquirer-Sun in 1929. When Georgia seceded from the Union in 1861, the Enquirer supported the decision, thus falling in line with most of the other large newspapers in the state. In 1858 the Columbus Enquirer began daily circulation for the first time to maintain readers in response to competition from the newly established Daily Sun. After the collapse of the party, the editors avoided aligning with another political organization but maintained strong support for compromise with the North during the antebellum period. In the 1840s, the paper was aligned with the Whig Party and supported its national candidates. The Enquirer experienced several changes in ownership in the decades that followed. He later fought in the Texas Revolution and was eventually elected the first vice president and the second president of the Republic of Texas. After two unsuccessful runs for Congress and the death of his wife and brother, Lamar sold the paper in 1835 and moved to Texas. The paper was politically aligned with the Jeffersonian Democrats and states’ rights advocates. Lamar established the Columbus Enquirer as a four-page weekly newspaper in 1828, the same year the General Assembly incorporated the city of Columbus. The Columbus Enquirer and the Columbus Ledger The paper, which is owned by the McClatchy Company, has won two Pulitzer Prizes for public service and has a daily circulation of more than 25,000, making it one of the largest newspapers in Georgia. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer is the fourth-oldest newspaper in the state, behind the Augusta Chronicle, the Milledgeville Union-Recorder, and the Macon Telegraph, and has covered news for the people of Columbus, southwest Georgia, and east Alabama since 1828.