Tabor-Loris Tribune

The Tabor-Loris Tribune (formerly The Tabor City Tribune) is a newspaper serving Tabor City, North Carolina and Loris, South Carolina in the southeastern United States.

Tabor-Loris Tribune
Owner(s)Atlantic Corporation
Founder(s)W. Horace Carter
EditorDeuce Niven
Founded1946
Headquarters102 Avon Street, Tabor City, NC
Circulation1,200
ISSN2156-2334
Websitewww.tabor-loris.com

The Tabor City Tribune was founded in 1946 by W. Horace Carter.[1] In 1953, days after the Ku Klux Klan launched a recruiting drive with a parade through Tabor City, Carter published "An Editorial: No Excuse for KKK," the first of more than 100 news stories about, and editorials opposing, the KKK.[1] He and his paper endured a number of threats, but found an ally in neighboring Whiteville, where editor Willard Cole republished many of the Tribune's stories in his Whiteville News Reporter.[2] The reporting lead to an FBI investigation, resulting in 254 convictions of Klansmen, of which 62 were imprisoned or fined.[3] The two journalists were awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[4] The site claims to be "the first Pulitzer Prize winning weekly newspaper in the United States."[5] Carter later donated the Pulitzer to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it remained on display as of 2009.[3]

The paper adopted the title Tabor-Loris Tribune in 2010.[6] It is currently owned by Atlantic Corp., which was also founded by Carter.[3] Other news outlets have cited the Tabor-Loris Tribune for its coverage of local issues and events.[7][8][9] The paper was part of a coalition of local and national news outlets that called on a judge to release search warrants sealed during a criminal investigation into voting irregularities in North Carolina's 9th congressional district.[10] The warrants were subsequently unsealed.[11] The Tribune's circulation is estimated at 1,200 in 2018.[12]

References
  1. Weber, Bruce (September 20, 2009). "W. Horace Carter, 88, a Publisher Whose Paper Challenged the Klan, Dies". The New York Times.
  2. Lanier, Jerry (1979). "Cole, Willard Glover". NCpedia. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  3. "W. Horace Carter, publisher for the Tabor-Loris Tribune, dies". Wilmington Star News. September 16, 2009. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  4. "Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  5. "History and Timeline of Atlantic Packaging, Horace Carter, Rusty Carter". Atlantic Packaging. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  6. National Endowment for the Humanities (2010-06-09). "About Tabor-Loris tribune". Chronicling America, Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  7. "Minor League Team's Bus Flips Over En Route To Game, Injuring Eight". NESN. 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  8. Wooten, Alan (2018-11-27). "Trio who aided slain trooper recognized". Bladen Journal. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  9. "Bridge cannot be named for fallen trooper". WECT 6 News. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  10. Ochsner, Nick (2019-03-05). "WBTV among media coalition seeking to unseal search warrants in NC-9 investigation". WBTV 3. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  11. Ochsner, Nick (2019-03-13). "Search warrants offer first details of NC-9 criminal investigation". WBTV 3. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  12. "NC 100: Atlantic notion". Business North Carolina. 2016-10-07. Retrieved 2020-06-26.

Further reading
  • Burritt, Christopher S. (1980). The Role of the Tabor City Tribune in the Downfall of the Association of Carolina Klans, 1950 to 1953. [dissertation]
  • Carter, W. Horace (2001). Only in America : an autobiography of a weekly newspaperman and business success. Atlantic Pub. Co. ISBN 0937866911.
  • Chalmers, David Mark (1987). Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822307723.
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