In 1929, Pratt became co-owner of the paper, when it was consolidated with the Selma Irrigator, which was owned by Edward Byfield.
He wrote that Japanese-Americans should be afforded the same rights as all American citizens, and that they should be safely returned to their homes from the internment camps where they were being held.
In 1984, Roy Brock, publisher of the Selma Enterprise won the Justus F. Craemer Newspaper Executive of the Year Award from the California Press Foundation.
[13] Roy's son, James Brock, who was also a publisher of the Enterprise and Recorder, won the same award in 1999.
J. Randall McFarland, who had edited the paper since 1972 called the sale a "real shock.
[17] In 2016, the Selma Enterprise/Kingsburg Recorder won 1st place in the Agricultural Reporting category in its division of the California's Better Newspapers Contest.