{{Short description|Newspaper published in Meridian, Mississippi}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Meridian Star | image = Meridian December 2018 29 (The Meridian Star).jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = ''Meridian Star'' Headquarters | type = Triweekly (formerly a daily newspaper)<ref name='Letter-to-readers-and-advertisers'>{{cite news | last1 = Atkinson | first1 = Bill | date = 31 March 2020 | title = Letter to readers and advertisers: The Meridian Star changing to 3 days per week in print | url = https://www.meridianstar.com | work = Meridian Star | location = Meridian, Mississippi | access-date = 30 April 2020 | url-access = subscription | quote = Effective April 7, we will reduce publishing and delivering the printed newspaper to three days a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) instead of five days (Tuesday through Friday and Sunday.)}}</ref> | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1898, as ''The Evening Star'' | owners = Carpenter Media Group | founder = Charles Pinckney Dement and James Washington Dement | publisher = Bill Atkinson | editor = David Bohrer | headquarters = 814 22nd Avenue<br>Meridian, Mississippi 39302<br>{{USA}} | circulation = 16,188 daily | circulation_date = 2007 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070212191101/http://www.cnhi-can.com/circulation CNHI-CAN Circulation]}}, figures for an undetermined date, accessed March 24, 2007.</ref> | ISSN = 1064-9549 | oclc = 10362622 | website = {{URL|meridianstar.com}} }}
'''''The Meridian Star''''' is a newspaper published in Meridian, Mississippi. Formerly a daily newspaper, it switched to a triweekly format in 2020, publishing on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings. The paper covers Lauderdale County and adjoining portions of western Alabama and eastern Mississippi.<ref name='Letter-to-readers-and-advertisers'/>
== History == Founded as ''The Evening Star'' in 1898 by Charles Pinckney Dement and his son James Washington Dement,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/editorsihavekno00henrgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/editorsihavekno00henrgoog/page/n463 413]|author=Robert Hiram Henry|title=Editors I have known since the civil war|year=1922|access-date=2010-06-28}}</ref><ref name="dement">{{cite journal|url={{NRHP url|id=79003387}}|format=pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Dement Printing Company|author=Jody Cook|date=February 1979|publisher=National Park Service}}{{cite journal|url={{NRHP url|id=79003387|photos=y}}|format=pdf|title=Accompanying 1 photo, from 1979.|journal=National Register of Historic Places Inventory}}</ref> the paper was published each afternoon until early 2005, when morning delivery was implemented. The paper was renamed ''The Meridian Star'' in 1915 and has been Meridian's only daily newspaper since 1921.<ref>[http://www.meridianstar.com/aboutus "The Meridian Star: About Us"] {{Webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100712072528/http://meridianstar.com/aboutus |date=2010-07-12 }}. Retrieved on March 24, 2007.</ref>
In May 2024, CNHI sold the newspaper to Carpenter Media Group.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-24 |title=Growing publisher buying 10 newspapers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi |url=https://apnews.com/article/cnhi-carpenter-newspapers-alabama-mississippi-georgia-8bfc5e38fd26d6646025cf7e716a9c10 |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=Associated Press |language=en}}</ref>
== Notable staff == Jack Wardlaw, the Baton Rouge bureau chief of the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', began his journalism career at ''The Star'' in 1959 as a city hall reporter.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/longtime_times-picayune_politi.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131203195439/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/longtime_times-picayune_politi.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 3, 2013|title=Ed Anderson, "Former Times-Picayune political reporter, capital bureau chief Jack Wardlaw dies," January 6, 2012|newspaper=New Orleans Times-Picayune|access-date=December 3, 2013}}</ref>
== Price == According to the masthead, the price for a single copy is $1.50 for all print editions.<ref name="Masthead">{{cite news | author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | date = 30 April 2020 | title = Masthead | url = https://www.meridianstar.com | work = Meridian Star | location = Meridian, Mississippi | access-date = 30 April 2020 | url-access = subscription }}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.meridianstar.com/ ''The Meridian Star'' Website] {{Meridian, Mississippi}}
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