 The July 15, 2015 front page of The Post and Courier | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Evening Post Industries |
| Founded | Charleston Courier 1803 Charleston Daily News-1865 News & Courier 1873 The Evening Post 1894 The Post and Courier 1991 |
| Headquarters | 148 Williman Street Charleston, SC 29403 United States |
| Circulation | 83,483 Daily 90,168 Sunday (as of March 2013)[1] |
| ISSN | 2692-2592 |
| OCLC number | 52298458 |
| Website | postandcourier |
The Post and Courier is the main daily newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina. It traces its ancestry to three newspapers, the Charleston Courier, founded in 1803, the Charleston Daily News, founded 1865, and The Evening Post, founded 1894. Through the Courier, it brands itself as the oldest daily newspaper in the South and one of the oldest continuously operating newspapers in the United States. It is the flagship newspaper of Evening Post Industries, which in turn is owned by the Manigault family of Charleston, descendants of Peter Manigault.
It is the largest newspaper in South Carolina, followed by Columbia's The State and The Greenville News.[1] It has newsrooms across the state in Greenville, Columbia, Spartanburg, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head Island and more.
- ^ a b "Total Circ for US Newspapers". Alliance for Audited Media. March 31, 2013. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013. Retrieved June 16, 2013.