Evansville Courier & Press history

In 1853, Captain John B. Hall purchased the newspaper and began daily publication as The Daily Enquirer.

In January, 1865, the newspaper was renamed to The Courier.

The Courier was sold to community leaders, Howard Roosa, Henry Murphy and Percy Carroll in 1897, and the trio moved the newspaper offices to 125 Main Street five years later.

In 1906, the newspaper hired its first photographer, William Deeds, and cartoonist Karl Kae Knecht.

In 1920 the newspaper was sold to publisher Henry Marshall.

He then sold the paper to Benjamin Bosse, who purchased it with help from investor C.B. Enlow in 1921.

Bosse died in 1922, and his widow, Anna, took over the operation of the newspaper.

In 1923 The Courier bought out its oldest rival publication, The Journal.

In 1938, the two papers formed a joint operating agreement to handle business affairs.

That resulted in the formation of a Joint Operating Agreement, which consolidated all business functions of both newspapers plus a separate Sunday edition into the Evansville Printing Corporation in 1939.

In 1952, Robert Enlow acquired a majority of the newspaper’s stock.

After his death in 1968, control of the newspaper fell into the hands of a trust, headed by Enlow’s widow, Rosanna, and later Fred Reichmann.

The E. W. Scripps Company sold the Press and bought the Courier in 1986.

The Courier and The Press moved into new offices located on Walnut Street in January 1990.

The Evansville Courier purchased the naming rights to the Evansville Press, which published its last edition on December 31, 1998.

In 1999 the Joint Operating Agreement was dissolved between the Evansville Courier and the Evansville Press.

On April 1, 2015, Journal Media Group becomes the parent owner of the Evansville Courier & Press; a result of a merger between the Scripps newspaper division and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.