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The Des Moines Register

Front page of the May 3, 2011 edition
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Possessor(s)	Gannett
Editor	Ballad Hunter
Founded	1849 (as The Iowa Star)
Headquarters	400 Locust Street, Suite 500 Des Moines, Iowa 50309 United states
Circulation	33,077 Daily 53,274 Sun (2020)^[one]
Website	www.desmoinesregister.com

The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa.

History [edit]

Early on flow [edit]

The get-go newspaper in Des Moines was the Iowa Star. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin past the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon River.^[2]

In 1854, The Star became the Iowa Statesman which was likewise a Democratic paper. In 1857, The Statesman became the Iowa State Journal, which published 3 times per calendar week.^[2]

In 1870, The Iowa Statesman became the Iowa State Leader equally a Democratic newspaper, which competed with pro-Republican Iowa Daily State Register for the next 32 years.^[2]

In 1902, George Roberts bought the Register and Leader and merged them into a morning paper. In 1903, Des Moines broker Gardner Cowles, Sr. purchased the Register and Leader. The proper noun finally became The Des Moines Register in 1915.^[2] (Cowles also acquired the Des Moines Tribune in 1908. The Tribune, which merged with the rival Des Moines News in 1924 and the Des Moines Capital in 1927, served every bit the evening paper for the Des Moines surface area until it concluded publication on September 25, 1982.)

Under the ownership of the Cowles family, the Register became Iowa'southward largest and well-nigh influential newspaper, somewhen adopting the slogan "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon." Newspapers were distributed to all 4 corners of the state by railroad train and later past truck as Iowa's highway system was improving.

Nationwide evolution [edit]

In 1906, the newspaper'southward first forepart-page editorial cartoon, illustrated past Jay Norwood Darling, was published;^[2] the tradition of front-page editorial cartoons continued until December four, 2008 when 25-year veteran cartoonist Brian Duffy was let go in a round of staff cuts.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The Annals employed reporters in cities and towns throughout Iowa, and it covered national and international news stories from an Iowa perspective, even setting up its own news bureau in Washington, D.C. in 1933. During the 1960s, circulation of the Register peaked at most 250,000 for the daily edition and 500,000 for the Sunday edition–more than the population of Des Moines at the time. In 1935, the Register & Tribune Company founded radio station KRNT-AM, named later the newspapers' nickname, "the R 'northward T." In 1955, the company, renamed Cowles Communications some years earlier, founded Des Moines' third television station, KRNT-TV, which was renamed KCCI after the radio station was sold in 1974. Cowles somewhen acquired other newspapers, radio stations and tv set stations, but almost all of them were sold to other companies by 1985.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1943, the Register became the first paper to sponsor a statewide opinion poll when it introduced the Iowa Poll, modeled after Iowan George Gallup's national Gallup poll. Sports coverage was increased under sports editor Garner "Sec" Taylor – for whom Sec Taylor Field at Principal Park is named – in the 1920s. For many years the Annals printed its sports sections on peach-colored newspaper, but that tradition ended for the daily paper in 1981 and for the Sun Register's "Big Peach" in 1999. Another Register tradition – the sponsorship of RAGBRAI – began in 1973 when author John Karras challenged columnist Donald Kaul to practise a border-to-border bicycle ride across Iowa. The liberal-leaning editorial page has brought Donald Kaul dorsum for Sunday opinion columns. Other local columns accept faded and given fashion to Gannett-distributed cloth.^{[ citation needed ]}

Nether Gannett ownership [edit]

In 1985, faced with failing circulation and revenues, the Cowles family unit sold off its various properties to different owners, with the Register going to Gannett.^[ii] At the fourth dimension of sale, only The New York Times had won more Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting.

In 1990, the Register began to reduce its coverage of news outside of the Des Moines expanse by closing most of its Iowa news bureaus and ending carrier distribution to outlying counties, although an "Iowa Edition" of the Register was still being distributed throughout most of the state. Many of the Register's news stories and editorials focus on Des Moines and its suburbs.^{[ citation needed ]}

The Register opened a new printing and distribution facility on the south side of Des Moines in 2000. The news & advertising offices remained in downtown Des Moines. After 95 years in the Des Moines Register Building at 715 Locust Street, the Annals appear in 2012 that they would motion to a new location in 2013, settling for Majuscule Foursquare three blocks to the east.^[iii] On June 15, 2013, the Register moved to its new location from 715 Locust Street to 400 Locust Street.^[2] In 2014, the old building has been sold for $1.vi million and volition be redeveloped into a combination of apartments and retail space.^[4]

In 2019, the Register switched from two print editions - a State and Metro edition - to i edition statewide.

The Register came under scrutiny in September 2019 after uncovering a pair of controversial tweets made by Carson Rex, a 24-yr-old Iowa man whose beer sign on ESPN College GameDay resulted in over $3 1000000 in contributions to a children'due south infirmary. King was sixteen at the fourth dimension of the posts. According to Carol Hunter, the paper'due south executive editor, the Annals elected to include the data toward the end of a story about King. "Reasonable people can look at the same ready of facts and disagree on what merits publication. But residual assured such decisions are not made lightly and are rooted in what we perceive as the public proficient," she explained after receiving complaints from readers.^[5] Some readers later found social media comments previously made by the reporter, Aaron Calvin, which contained racial slurs and condemnation of police force enforcement.^[6] The Register defended its determination and announced that they would launch an investigation into the "inappropriate social media posts" made by a staff fellow member, though it did non name anyone involved.^[7] On September 27, the Register announced that Calvin was no longer employed by the newspaper.^[viii] Calvin later wrote an op-ed in the Columbia Journalism Review blaming Gannett and the Register for what he considered to be an "unfair" firing.^[nine] ^[10]

Editorial philosophy [edit]

In the three decades before the Cowles family unit acquired the Register in 1903, the Register was a "vox of businesslike conservatism."^[11] However, Gardner Cowles Sr., who served as a Republican in the Iowa General Assembly, was a consul to the 1916 Republican National Convention, and served in the administration of President Herbert Hoover,^[12] was an advocate of progressive Republicanism.^[11] The new owners presented a multifariousness of viewpoints, including Darling cartoons that frequently fabricated fun of progressive politicians.^[13]

During the Cowles family'due south ownership, the Register 'due south editorial folio philosophy was generally more liberal in its outlook than editorial pages of other Iowa newspapers, but at that place were notable exceptions. The publishers strongly supported Republican Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign against Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[14] The newspaper also supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower's campaigns for the Republican nomination and general election in 1952, and over again in 1956.^[fourteen] Although the Register endorsed presidential candidates Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964,^[15] Hubert Humphrey in 1968,^[16] and Jimmy Carter in 1976,^[17] information technology endorsed Richard Nixon in 1960^[fifteen] and 1972.^[18]

The paper was a severe critic of George West. Bush-league's warrantless wiretapping strategy and claimed that in doing so, "President Bush has declared war on the American people."

In December 2007, two weeks before the 2008 Iowa caucuses, the Register endorsed Hillary Clinton (in the Autonomous caucuses) and John McCain (in the Republican caucuses).^[19] In Oct 2008, information technology endorsed Barack Obama for president in the general ballot.^[20]

In 2011, 24 days before the 2012 Iowa caucuses, the newspaper endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Manus Romney in the 2012 Republican Iowa Caucuses. The Register endorsed Romney over Obama ten days earlier the general ballot on Oct 27, 2012, the starting time time that it supported a Republican for president since 1972.^[21]

On July 24, 2015, the newspaper announced that it had been denied press credentials to cover a Donald Trump presidential entrada family picnic in Oskaloosa, Iowa, because of an editorial the previous week that had called on Trump to drib out of the race.^[22] ^[23]

On January 23, 2016, it endorsed Republican Senator Marco Rubio for the GOP nomination and Hillary Clinton for the Autonomous candidate.

On October 13, 2018, the Annals endorsed all Democratic candidates continuing for the House of Representatives in the 2018 elections and stated that Republicans have "failed to govern."^[24]

On January 25, 2020, the newspaper endorsed Autonomous Senator Elizabeth Warren for her party's presidential nomination.^[25]

Register and Tribune Syndicate [edit]

In 1922, Gardner Cowles' son John launched the Register and Tribune Syndicate. At its meridian, the syndicate offered other newspapers some 60 to 75 features, including editorial cartoonist Herblock and commentaries past David Horowitz, Stanley Karnow, and others. The cartoons and comic strips included Spider-Homo. Volition Eisner'south The Spirit was role of a 16-page Sunday supplement known colloquially as "The Spirit Section". This was a tabloid-sized newsprint comic book sold as part of eventually 20 Lord's day newspapers with a combined circulation of as many as five million copies. The nearly successful comics feature was The Family Circus, somewhen distributed to more i,000 newspapers. In 1986, the Register and Tribune Syndicate was sold to Hearst and the King Features Syndicate for $four.three one thousand thousand.^[26]

Columnists and notable journalists [edit]

Brianne Pfannenstiel was selected primary politics reporter for the 2020 United States presidential election and co-chastened the seventh Democratic debate with Wolf Blitzer and Abby Phillip on January 14, 2020.^[27] Rekha Basu is a current Annals columnist.

Quondam columnist Rob Borsellino authored the volume So I'1000 Talkin' to This Guy... (ISBN 1-888223-66-ix).

Steve Deace started his career as a sports reporter at the Register. ^[28]

Bloomberg'south Senior White House Reporter Jennifer Jacobs was formerly Chief Political Reporter at the Register.

Awards [edit]

The Register has won 16 Pulitzer Prizes:^[29]

half dozen for National Reporting: 1954, 1958, 1968, 1976, 1979, and 1985
4 for Editorial Writing: 1938, 1943, 1956, and 2018
3 for Editorial Cartooning: 1924, 1943, and 1963
1 for Photography: 1952
1 for Feature Photography: 1987
1 for Breaking News Photography: 2010
one for Public Service: 1991

Register photographer Robert Modersohn was one of four finalists for the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a selection of photographs the jury described as unusual.

Register writer Clark Kauffman was one of three finalists for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his exposure of glaring injustice in the treatment of traffic tickets by public officials in Iowa.

Editorial writer Andie Dominick was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for her series of editorials on Iowa'due south chore licensing laws,^[30] and later won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.

Iowa Sports Hall of Fame [edit]

The Register sponsors the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.

References [edit]

^ "Food fight at Fong'due south. Register'south circulation drops over again. Court okays Dico-city deal. Ernst lines up with Hawley". March 3, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Timeline: History of the Des Moines Register". Des Moines Register. 2015-09-10. Archived from the original on 2018-ten-27.
^ Eller, Donnelle (September 17, 2012). "Des Moines Annals signs lease for new space in Capital Square". Des Moines Register. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. .
^ Aschbrenner, Joel (November 27, 2014). "Des Moines Register building sold". Des Moines Annals. Archived from the original on 2015-05-20.
^ Jones, Tom (September 25, 2019). "Impeachment, and how to cover it; plus Vocalism buys New York Media and Showtime snags 'Vice'". Poynter Establish.
^ Wulfsohn, Joseph A. (September 25, 2019). "Des Moines Annals hit after report digs up old, offensive tweets of local man who raised $1M for charity". Play a trick on News.
^ "Des Moines Register Investigating Employee's Social Media Posts Among Carson King Backlash". WHO-DT. September 25, 2019.
^ "Des Moines Register Responds to Outcry Over Carson King Commodity; Reporter No Longer with Paper," WHO-DT, September 27, 2019. Accessed 09-27-2019. [ane]
^ Calvin, Aaron (Nov 4, 2019). "Twitter hates me. The Des Moines Register fired me. Here's what really happened". Columbia Journalism Review . Retrieved Nov 5, 2019.
^ Wulfsohn, Joseph (November four, 2019). "Ex-Des Moines Register reporter suggests Carson King shares blame for 'unfair' firing". Fox News . Retrieved November v, 2019.
^ ^a ^b William B. Friedricks, "Covering Iowa: The History of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1849-1985," pp. 40-44 (Blackwell Pub. 2000), ISBN 0-8138-2620-9.
^ Herbert Strentz, "Gardner Cowles, Sr.," at Cowles Family Publishing Legacy, Drake University (accessed 2009-03-08).
^ Editorial Cartoons of J.Due north. 'Ding' Darling (Iowa Digital Library: University of Iowa Libraries) - Cartoons referencing or depicting progressivism or progressives (accessed 2009-03-09).
^ ^a ^b Herbert Strentz, "Gardner (Mike) Cowles, Jr.," at Cowles Family Publishing Legacy, Drake Academy (accessed 2009-03-08).
^ ^a ^b "How Iowa Dailies See Candidates", Des Moines Annals, October 25, 1964 at 6-F.
^ Editorial, "Difficult Choice for President", Des Moines Register, October 27, 1968 at 12-T.
^ Editorial, "The Presidential Ticket", Des Moines Annals, October 24, 1976, at B1.
^ Editorial, "The Choice for President", Des Moines Register, 1972-ten-29 at 10-C.
^ "'Des Moines Register' backs McCain, Clinton," The states Today, 2007-12-17 (accessed 2009-03-08).
^ Annals editorial board endorses Obama for President, Des Moines Register, 2008-10-25 (accessed 2009-03-08).
^ "'Des Moines Register' Endorses Romney With Middle Toward Economy". npr.
^ Noble, Jason (July 24, 2015). "Trump disallowment Des Moines Annals from campaign event". Des Moines Register . Retrieved 2015-09-27 .
^ "Editorial: Trump should pull the plug on his bloviating side show". Des Moines Register. July 21, 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-27 .
^ "The Register's endorsements for Congress: GOP has failed to govern; give Democrats a adventure". Des Moines Annals . Retrieved 16 October 2018.
^ "Des Moines Register Endorses Elizabeth Warren". NBC News . Retrieved May 26, 2020.
^ Strentz, Herb. "John Cowles," Cowles Family Publishing Legacy: Drake University, Cowles Library. Accessed Jan. iii, 2018.
^ Tracy, Marc (2020-01-13). "The Iowa Reporter in the Middle of the 2020 Activeness". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-15 .
^ Calmes, Jackie (iii Nov 2015). "Steve Deace and the Power of Conservative Media". The New York Times Magazine . Retrieved 5 November 2018.
^ "Des Moines Register Pulitzer Prizes and awards". Des Moines Register. 2012-05-18. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22.
^ Register's Andie Dominick named Pulitzer finalist, The Des Moines Register

"2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.Southward. by Apportionment" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2007-03-31. Retrieved 2007-05-29 .

External links [edit]

Official website
Juice's website
Des Moines Metromix
Iowa Newspaper Association
America's Best Buy: The Louisiana Purchase (Register and Tribune Syndicate comic strip) at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on Apr 4, 2012.