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{{Infobox newspaper
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| caption = Front page of the ''Montgomery Advertiser'',<br />July 19, 2009▼
| image = [[Image:Montgomery Advertiser (daily newspaper).jpg|225px|border]]
| type = Daily [[newspaper]]▼
| format = [[Broadsheet]]▼
| foundation = 1829<br />(as ''The Planter's Gazette'')▼
| ceased publication =▼
| owners = [[Gannett]]▼
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| president = Michael Galvin▼
| editor = Paige O. Windsor▼
| language = English▼
| circulation = 8,735 (daily)<br />11,792 (Sunday)▼
| headquarters = 425 Molton St.<br />Montgomery, Alabama, 36104▼
| website = {{URL|www.montgomeryadvertiser.com}}▼
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==History==
The newspaper began publication in 1829 as ''The Planter's Gazette.'' Its first editor was [[Moseley Baker]]. It became the ''Montgomery Advertiser'' in 1833. In 1903,
[[File:SC 396918 - 1st Lt. Gordon H. Schofield, 714 Winona Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama, glances through a copy of a hometown newspaper. (52611760975).jpg|left|thumb|A U.S. soldier reading The Montgomery Advertiser in Italy, January, 1945]]
▲The newspaper began publication in 1829 as ''The Planter's Gazette.'' Its first editor was [[Moseley Baker]]. It became the ''Montgomery Advertiser'' in 1833. In 1903, R.F. Hudson, a young Alabama newspaperman, joined the staff of the ''Advertiser'' and rose through the ranks of the newspaper. Hudson was central to improving the financial situation of the newspaper, and by 1924 he owned 10% of its stock. Hudson purchased the remaining shares of the company in 1935, and five years later he bought ''The Alabama Journal,'' a competitor founded in Montgomery in 1889. Ownership of the ''Advertiser'' subsequently passed from Hudson's heirs to Carmage Walls (1963), through Multimedia Corp. (1968) to [[Gannett]] (1995).<ref name=history/>
[[Grover C. Hall, Jr.]] (1915–1971) worked at the paper from age 20 and served 15 years as editor after [[World War II]]. He allied with the politician [[George C. Wallace]] in 1958.<ref name=AA-jr/> In 1975, the newspaper investigated the shooting of [[Killing of Bernard Whitehurst|Bernard Whitehurt]] by police and wrote news stories that questioned the original police reports.<sup>[[Killing of Bernard Whitehurst#cite note-:2-5|[5]]]</sup> To counter claims that newspaper was fabricating stories, publisher [[Harold E. Martin]] took and passed a polygraph.<sup>[[Killing of Bernard Whitehurst#cite note-:2-5|[5]]]</sup>
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While the ''Advertiser'' opposed [[Confederate States of America#Secession|secession]] in 1861, after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] it aligned itself with the cause of [[white supremacy]].<ref name="NYT 29 April 2018">{{cite news|last1=Eligon|first1=John|title=A Lynching Memorial Forces a Reckoning for a Nation, and a Newspaper|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/us/lynching-memorial-newspaper.html|access-date=April 30, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=April 29, 2018}}</ref>
According to a 2018 review by the ''Advertiser'' itself, from 1883 to the early 1900s the paper covered the region's frequent [[lynching]]s ambivalently. While it nominally condemned the mob murders of [[African-Americans|black people]], its coverage assumed that the victims were guilty of crimes, such as a 1919 editorial that held that "as long as there are attempts at rape by black men, [[Native Americans in the United States|red men]] or [[Asian Americans|yellow men]] on white women there will be lynchings". Consequently, the paper's proposals on how to address lynchings focused on how the accused could more efficiently be legally executed instead. It also tended to be more concerned about how lynchings might be treated by Northern papers than about the crimes themselves.<ref name="The Montgomery Advertiser 20 April 2018">{{cite news|last1=Lyman|first1=Bryan|title='There will be lynchings': How the Advertiser failed victims of racial terror|url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2018/04/20/there-lynchings-how-advertiser-failed-victims-racial-terror-eji-peace-justice-memorial-montgomery/499656002/|access-date=April 30, 2018|work=The Montgomery Advertiser|date=April 20, 2018|language=en}}</ref> In an editorial published on the occasion of the 2018 opening of the [[National Memorial for Peace and Justice]], the editorial board recognized the paper's "own shameful place in the history of these dastardly, murderous deeds", acknowledging that the paper's "careless" coverage of lynchings was "wrong".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Montgomery Advertiser editorial board|title=Our shame: The sins of our past laid bare for all to see|url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/04/26/shame-us-sins-our-past-equal-justice-initiative-peace-memorial-lynching-montgomery-bryan-stevenson/551402002/|access-date=April 30, 2018|work=The Montgomery Advertiser|date=April 26, 2018|language=en}}</ref>
The newspaper won the first of its three [[Pulitzer Prize]] awards under the direction of [[Grover C. Hall]] (1888–1941), who came to the ''Advertiser'' in 1910 and served as editor from 1926 until his death. The ''Advertiser'' waged war on the [[Ku Klux Klan]] during the 1920s, and became nationally prominent for its coverage and editorial stance.<ref name=history/><ref name=pulitzer/> Hall later argued for release of the black [[Scottsboro Boys]].<ref name=JSH/> Nonetheless, by the 1950s, the paper's coverage of the [[civil rights movement]] was "indifferent and antagonistic", often criticizing civil rights activists and their goals.<ref name="NYT 29 April 2018" />
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