{{Short description|Newspaper published in Cordele, Georgia, US}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Cordele Dispatch | image = | caption = | type = Weekly newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1908 | ceased_publication = | owners = Carpenter Media Group | publisher = Frank Perea | managing_editor = Frank Perea | circulation = 3,369 | circulation_date = 2013 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-01-01 |title=2013 Georgia Newspaper Directory |url=http://www.gapress.org:80/gpa_directory_2013/2013GPADirectory.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308195811/http://www.gapress.org:80/gpa_directory_2013/2013GPADirectory.pdf |archive-date=2014-03-08 |access-date=2023-05-20 |website=Georgia Press Association}}</ref> | headquarters = 306 West 13th Avenue<br>Cordele, Georgia 31015<br>{{USA}} | website = [http://www.cordeledispatch.com/ cordeledispatch.com] }} The '''''Cordele Dispatch''''' is a weekly newspaper published in Cordele, Georgia. It is owned by Carpenter Media Group.
==History== In April 1908, the first issue of the ''Cordele Sunday Dispatch'' was published by Judge J. B. Smith and Alvin Roberts. The name was changed to the present ''Cordele Dispatch'' in 1926.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Georgia)|url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/2022239700/|website=GAHistoricNewspapers.Galileo.USG.edu|access-date=October 6, 2025}}</ref>
In August 2015, Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. sold the ''Dispatch'' to Carpenter Newsmedia LLC,<ref>{{cite web|title=Boone Newspaper Inc. affiliate buys two papers in Georgia|url=https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/business/2015/08/05/boone-newspaper-inc-affiliate-buys-two-papers-in-georgia/29961516007/|website=TuscaloosaNews.com|date=August 5, 2015|access-date=October 6, 2025}}</ref> since renamed to Carpenter Media Group.
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== External links == * [http://www.cordeledispatch.com/ Dispatch Website] * [http://www.carpentermediagroup.com/ Carpenter Media Group Website]
Cordele Cordele Dispatch Category:Newspapers established in 1908 Category:1908 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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