Post and Courier in Charleston Shows that Family Owned Newspapers Can Still Work

In this year of consolidation in the newspaper industry, Gannett, New Media Investment Group and Tribune Publishing have scooped up dozens of titles in the name of efficiency. That makes the family-ownedPost and Courier of Charleston, S.C. an outlier — and proud to be one.

The Post and Courier has clearly been on a roll editorially, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in April with high impact coverage in 2014 of domestic violence and the weak South Carolina laws to stop it.