![]() Previously, the paper had only withheld its endorsement from a Republican nominee/candidate twice in its history.ĭuring the unusual sequence of events that led up to the 1912 presidential election the paper had opted not to endorse the "formal" Republican party nominee for that election cycle. ![]() On September 27, 2016, the paper endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election, marking the first time in the paper's 126-year history that it had endorsed a Democratic candidate for president. In local elections, it endorsed in recent years Democratic candidates such as former Arizona governor, former Secretary of Homeland Security, and former University of California president Janet Napolitano and former Arizona Congressman Harry Mitchell. On October 25, 2008, the paper endorsed Senator John McCain for president. Bush in both the 20 presidential elections. Historically, The Republic has tilted conservative editorially. Retaliation against his pursuit of organized crime in Arizona is thought to be a motive in the murder. He had been lured to a meeting in Phoenix in the course of work on a story about corruption in local politics and business and the bomb detonated as he started his car to leave. In 1976, an investigative reporter for the newspaper, Don Bolles, was the victim of a car bombing. In 2020 it had a circulation of about 116,000 for its daily edition, and 337,000 for its Sunday edition. In 2013, The Arizona Republic dropped from the sixteenth largest daily newspaper in the United States to the twenty-first largest, by circulation. On September 25, 2015, Mi-Ai Parrish was named publisher and president of both the paper and its website, effective October 12. Also in 2000, the Spanish-language publication La Voz was founded. The Republic and KPNX combine their forces to produce their common local news subscription website, The Republic and KPNX separated in 2015 when Gannett split into separate print and broadcast companies. Specialized content is also available in the local sections produced for many of the different cities and suburbs that make up the Phoenix metropolitan area.Ĭentral Newspapers was purchased by Gannett in 2000, bringing it into common ownership with USA Today and the local Phoenix NBC television affiliate, KPNX. In 1998, a weekly section geared towards college students, " The Rep", went into circulation. The Arizona Business Gazette is still published to this day. The Phoenix Gazette was closed in 1997 and its staff merged with that of the Republic. Pulliam's holding company, Central Newspapers, Inc., as led by Pulliam's widow and son, assumed operation of the Republic/Gazette family of papers upon the elder Pulliam's death. Pulliam was considered one of the influential business leaders who created the modern Phoenix area as it is known today. A strong period of growth came under Pulliam, who imprinted the newspaper with his conservative brand of politics and his drive for civic leadership. Pulliam, who bought the two Gazettes as well as the Republic, ran all three newspapers until his death in 1975 at the age of 86. Stauffer and Knorpp had changed the newspaper's name to The Arizona Republic in 1930, and also had bought the rival Phoenix Evening Gazette and Phoenix Weekly Gazette, later known, respectively, as The Phoenix Gazette and the Arizona Business Gazette. Wesley Knorpp, until it was bought by Midwestern newspaper magnate Eugene C. The paper was then run by two of its top executives, Charles Stauffer and W. ![]() ![]() Heard, a Phoenix land and cattle baron, ran the newspaper from 1912 until his death in 1929. The newspaper was founded May 19, 1890, under the name The Arizona Republican.
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