Hattiesburg American

Hattiesburg American

Hattiesburg American Masthead
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Gannett Company
Publisher	Jason Taylor
Editor	Erin Kosnac
Founded	1897 as Hattiesburg Progress
Headquarters	4200 Mamie Street Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39402  United States
Circulation	11,300
Website	Hattiesburg American

The Hattiesburg American is a U.S. newspaper based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, that serves readers in Forrest, Lamar, and surrounding counties in south-central Mississippi. The newspaper is owned by Gannett Company, Inc.

The Hattiesburg American was founded in 1897 as a weekly newspaper, the Hattiesburg Progress. In 1907, the Hattiesburg Progress was acquired by The Hattiesburg Daily News. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, the newspaper was renamed the Hattiesburg American.

The Hattiesburg American was purchased by the Harmon family in the 1920s and was sold to the Hederman family in 1960. Gannett Company acquired the newspaper in 1982.

In the early 1960s, the Hattiesburg American spoke out against the development of the Republican Party in Mississippi. The publication echoed the state Democratic contention that the primary beneficiaries of a two-party system would be "the 920,000 Negroes who dwell here."The American denounced Republican leaders Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona and Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, rivals for the party's 1964 presidential nomination, for their common membership in the National Urban League and the NAACP. The American also criticized then freshman U.S. Representative Robert Taft, Jr., son of the late U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, for having remarked that "no segregationist belongs on a Republican ticket or even in the party."

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