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''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. A separate edition of the ''Register'' is sold throughout much of Iowa. ==History== The first newspaper in Des Moines, the ''Iowa Star,'' was founded in 1849. In 1855, the ''Iowa Citizen'' began publication; it was renamed the ''Iowa State Register'' in 1860. In 1902, the ''Register'' merged with the ''Des Moines Leader'', a descendant of the ''Star'', to become the ''Des Moines Register and Leader''. In 1903, Des Moines banker Gardner Cowles, Sr. purchased the ''Register and Leader''; the name became ''The Des Moines Register'' in 1915. (Cowles also acquired the ''Des Moines Tribune'' in 1908. The ''Tribune'', which merged with the rival ''Des Moines News'' in 1924 and the ''Des Moines Capital'' in 1927, served as the evening paper for the Des Moines area until it ended publication on September 25, 1982.) Under the ownership of the Cowles family, the ''Register'' became Iowa's largest and most influential newspaper, eventually adopting the slogan "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon." Newspapers were distributed to all four corners of the state by train and later by truck as Iowa's highway system was improving. The ''Register'' employed reporters in cities and towns throughout Iowa, and it covered national and international news stories from an Iowa perspective, even setting up its own news bureau in Washington, D.C. in 1933. During the 1960s, circulation of the ''Register'' peaked at nearly 250,000 for the daily edition and 500,000 for the Sunday edition–more than the population of Des Moines at the time. In 1935, the Register & Tribune Company founded radio station KRNT-AM, named after the newspapers' nickname, "the R 'n T." In 1955, the company, renamed Cowles Communications some years earlier, founded Des Moines' third television station, KRNT-TV, which was renamed KCCI after the radio station was sold in 1974. Cowles eventually acquired other newspapers, radio stations and television stations, but almost all of them were sold to other companies by 1985. In 1906, the newspaper's first front-page editorial cartoon, illustrated by Jay Norwood Darling, was published; the tradition of front-page editorial cartoons continued until December 4, 2008 when 25-year veteran cartoonist Brian Duffy was let go in a round of staff cuts. In 1943, the ''Register'' became the first newspaper to sponsor a statewide opinion poll when it introduced the Iowa Poll, modeled after Iowan George Gallup's national Gallup poll. Sports coverage was increased under sports editor Garner "Sec" Taylor – for whom Sec Taylor Field at Principal Park is named – in the 1920s. For many years the ''Register'' printed its sports sections on peach-colored paper, but that tradition ended for the daily paper in 1981 and for the ''Sunday Register's'' "Big Peach" in 1999. Another ''Register'' tradition – the sponsorship of RAGBRAI – began in 1973 when writer John Karras challenged columnist Donald Kaul to do a border-to-border bicycle ride across Iowa. The liberal-leaning editorial page has brought Donald Kaul back for Sunday opinion columns. Other local columns have faded and given way to Gannett-distributed material. In 1985, faced with declining circulation and revenues, the Cowles family sold off its various properties to different owners, with the ''Register'' going to Gannett. At the time of sale, only ''The New York Times'' had won more Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting. In 1990, the ''Register'' began to reduce its coverage of news outside of the Des Moines area by closing most of its Iowa news bureaus and ending carrier distribution to outlying counties, although an "Iowa Edition" of the ''Register'' is still distributed throughout most of the state. Many of the ''Register's'' news stories and editorials focus on Des Moines and its suburbs. The ''Register'' opened a new printing and distribution facility on the south side of Des Moines in 2000. The newspaper's offices are located in downtown Des Moines. On June 1, 2005, the ''Register'' launched a weekly tabloid publication, ''Juice'', which features entertainment and lifestyle stories targeted at the 25 to 34-year-old demographic. They also launched dmJuice.com in conjunction with the free weekly publication. After 95 years in the Des Moines Register Building at 715 Locust Street, the Register announced in 2012 that they would move to a new location in 2013, settling for Capital Square three blocks to the east.〔Eller, Donnelle (September 17, 2012). ("Des Moines Register signs lease for new space in Capital Square" ). ''The Des Moines Register''.〕 Overnight on Friday, June 14 into the early morning hours of Saturday, June 15, 2013 The'' Register'' moved to its new location on the 4th & 5th floors of Capital Square with no interruption in service, design, reporting, circulation, or any other operations. The old building was sold in late 2014 and will be redeveloped into a combination of apartments and retail space. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Des Moines Register」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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