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The Gazette is a daily print newspaper and online news source published in the American city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.The first paper was published as an evening journal, branded the Evening Gazette, on January 10, 1883.
The Gazette – Cedar Rapids; Globe Gazette – Mason City; The Hawk Eye – Burlington; Iowa City Press-Citizen – Iowa City; Keokuk Daily Gate City – Keokuk; Le Mars Daily Sentinel – Le Mars; Marshalltown Times Republican – Marshalltown; The Messenger – Fort Dodge
The Gazette is the primary daily newspaper for Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Rapids Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936, under editor Verne Marshall and primarily due to his efforts and articles, for its campaign against corruption and misgovernment in the State of Iowa.
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KGYM signed on as KCRG on December 20, 1947, under the ownership of the Cedar Rapids Gazette Company [4] (later known as Gazette Communications). The Gazette Company had launched Cedar Rapids' first FM station, KCRK-FM 96.1, a month earlier, and had applied for a construction permit for a television station on channel 9 that year.
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NewspaperArchive is a commercial online database of digitized newspapers, and claims to be the world's largest newspaper archive. [1] The site was launched in 1999 by its parent company, Heritage Microfilm, Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is currently overseen by Heritage Archives, Inc. [2]
The location of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Fox and Sac tribes at the time of European American settlement.. The first settler on the site of the future city was Osgood Shepherd, who built a log cabin (which he called a tavern) in 1837 or 1838 next to the Cedar River (then known as the Red Cedar) at what is now the corner of First Avenue and First Street Northeast.