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{{Infobox newspaper<br />
| name = The Decatur Daily<br />
| image = [[Image:The Decatur Daily front page.jpg|225px|border]]<br />
| caption = The December 7, 2006 front page of<br />''The Decatur Daily''<br />
| type = Daily [[newspaper]]<br />
| format = [[Broadsheet]]<br />
| foundation = 1912<br />
| ceased publication = <br />
| price = <br />
| owners = Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc.<br />
| publisher = Barrett C. "Clint" Shelton III<br />
| editor = Eric Fleischauer<br />
| circulation = <br />
| headquarters = 201 1st Avenue SE<br>[[Decatur, Alabama|Decatur]], [[Alabama]] 35609<br>{{USA}}<br />
| ISSN = <br />
| website = [http://www.decaturdaily.com/ decaturdaily.com]<br />
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'''''The Decatur Daily''''' is a daily (five days a week) [[newspaper]] serving [[Decatur, Alabama]] and the [[Tennessee Valley]] in the [[North Alabama]] area of the [[United States]]. As of September 30, 2006, it had an average daily circulation of 20,824 and a Sunday circulation of 23,840. Along with ''[[The Anniston Star]]'', it is one of only two family-owned daily newspapers remaining in [[Alabama]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
It was first published on February 26, 1912, under the banner of ''The Decaturs Daily'', serving the towns of Decatur and New Decatur. After 1916, when New Decatur was renamed Albany, the paper was called ''The Albany-Decatur Daily''. When the two towns were consolidated in 1927, it assumed its present title.<br />
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The newspaper is published by the Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc., formed in 1911. William R. Shelton was the primary owner and first publisher. He served in this capacity until his death in 1924, and was succeeded by his son [[Barrett C. Shelton Sr.]] [[Barrett C. Shelton Jr.]] has been publisher since 1984, and [[Barrett C. "Clint" Shelton III]] today serves as general manager.<br />
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On April 1, 2009, The Tennessee Valley Printing Company purchased the [[TimesDaily]] newspaper in Florence, Alabama, from the New York Times Regional News Group.<br />
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In 2018, facing challenges from the switch to digital media and sharp increases in newsprint costs due to a tariff imposed on Canadian newsprint, 'The Decatur Daily' stopped printing editions on Saturdays and Mondays.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shelton |first1=Clint |title=From the publisher: Decatur Daily print edition frequency to change |url=http://www.decaturdaily.com/news/local/from-the-publisher-decatur-daily-print-edition-frequency-to-change/article_cef2b1d5-dc5e-5666-9fb8-5a63a854dba2.html |accessdate=15 August 2018 |publisher=The Decatur Daily |date=2 February 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
'''2018 Better Newspaper Contest - Alabama Press Association'''<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.alabamapress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/UPDATED-FINAL-FOR-RELEASE-2018-BNC-Press-Release.pdf|title=APA Better Newspaper Contest Award Winners Announced|last1=Langan|first1=Jaclyn|website=Alabama Press Association|accessdate=13 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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! Year !! Award !! Place !! Recipient<br />
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| 2018 ||Best In-Depth News Coverage<br />
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| 1st || Keith Clines<br />
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| 2018 || Best Photo Essay|| 1st || Crystal Vander Weit<br />
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|2018<br />
|Creative Use of Multimedia<br />
|1st<br />
|Crystal Vander Weit, Catherine Godbey<br />
|}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Official website|http://www.decaturdaily.com/}}<br />
* {{Newseum front page|AL_DD}}<br />
* [https://archive.today/20040811205838/http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/thedaily/history.shtml A Brief History of THE DECATUR DAILY]<br />
*[https://archive.today/20041118132403/http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040830/family.shtml Family-owned papers — more than bottom line: DAILY, Anniston Star unique among Alabama publications]<br />
*[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080602190648/http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/index.html Audit Bureau of Circulations eCirc]<br />
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