Jan 16, 2015: Jim Cegielski: Laurel Leader Call: Social media chowderheads
June 24, 2014: Jim Romesko: Mississippi paper on KFC Hoax scoop: ‘We were 100% positive we had the story’
“We got the tip [on the KFC hoax] last Wednesday,” Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call owner Jim Cegielski told me in a phone chat this afternoon. “We were reluctant [to go with it] at first, but only because we didn’t have all the sources we needed. Once we got the strongest sources to cooperate with us, we were 100% positive we had the story. …It took us about five days to put together.”
“We got the tip [on the KFC hoax] last Wednesday,” Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call owner Jim Cegielski told me in a phone chat this afternoon. “We were reluctant [to go with it] at first, but only because we didn’t have all the sources we needed. Once we got the strongest sources to cooperate with us, we were 100% positive we had the story. …It took us about five days to put together.”
May 13, 2014: Free Republic: Laurel Leader Call Owner Jim Cegielski Endorses Chris McDaniel in Mississippi Senate Race
However, the one thing I do absolutely know about Chris McDaniel from many years of listening to his radio show and for the seven years that we have covered him for this newspaper is that he is an unwavering conservative to the core of his being. Cochran attack ads that claim otherwise are complete poppycock.
However, the one thing I do absolutely know about Chris McDaniel from many years of listening to his radio show and for the seven years that we have covered him for this newspaper is that he is an unwavering conservative to the core of his being. Cochran attack ads that claim otherwise are complete poppycock.
The Laurel Leader-Call is a thrice-weekly newspaper published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in Laurel, Mississippi,USA, covering Jones County. It is owned by Gin Creek Publishing, which purchased the name and subscriber list fromCNHI in April 2012. For a century Laurel's only daily newspaper, the paper was founded as The Laurel Daily Argus August 11, 1911, by Edgar G. Harris. It later changed its name to the Laurel Daily Leader and, in 1930, the Laurel Leader-Call.
On September 1, 2011, the paper's owner, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., announced that the Laurel Leader-Callwould begin publishing on a four-day schedule: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday. The newspaper's website continued to provide news, features, sports, photos and video on a daily basis until it shut down nearly seven months later. CNHI folded the Leader-Call on March 29, 2012. In April the Leader-Call name and subscriber list was purchased by Gin Creek Publishing, a local business that had published the weekly The ReView of Jones County since 2007. The ReViewceased operation and the Laurel Leader-Call was reborn as a three-day-a-week publication, beginning with the April 19, 2012, edition. New publisher-editor Mark Thornton said that "People who remember when the Leader-Call was family-owned remember that it was a much better paper then. We plan to restore that proud tradition.
On September 1, 2011, the paper's owner, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., announced that the Laurel Leader-Callwould begin publishing on a four-day schedule: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday. The newspaper's website continued to provide news, features, sports, photos and video on a daily basis until it shut down nearly seven months later. CNHI folded the Leader-Call on March 29, 2012. In April the Leader-Call name and subscriber list was purchased by Gin Creek Publishing, a local business that had published the weekly The ReView of Jones County since 2007. The ReViewceased operation and the Laurel Leader-Call was reborn as a three-day-a-week publication, beginning with the April 19, 2012, edition. New publisher-editor Mark Thornton said that "People who remember when the Leader-Call was family-owned remember that it was a much better paper then. We plan to restore that proud tradition.