The Daily Advocate

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The Daily Advocate
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)AIM Media Midwest
PublisherRon Clausen
EditorRyan Berry
FoundedMay 3, 1883 (1883-05-03), as Darke County Democratic Advocate [1]
Headquarters100 Washington Ave,
Greenville, Ohio 45331, United States
Website dailyadvocate.com

The Daily Advocate is an American daily newspaper published Tuesday through Friday in Greenville, Ohio. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest. The Advocate is the leading newspaper of Darke County, Ohio, circulating in Greenville, Ansonia, Arcanum, Bradford, New Madison, Union City and Versailles, Ohio, as well as abutting smaller communities, and neighboring Union City, Indiana. [2]

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History

The Advocate was founded by W.A. Browne, Sr. as an eight-page weekly newspaper in May 1883. [2] Browne converted it to daily publication around January 1893, as the Daily Advocate. [3]

Browne sold the paper to The Thomson Corporation, a Canadian publisher, which later sold it to Brown Publishing Company in 1996. [4]

Brown, a Cincinnati-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010. [5] The company, including the Daily Advocate, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management. [6]

In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, the former Freedom papers it had acquired, Impressions Media, and Heartland Publications into a new company, Civitas Media. [7] Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017. [8] In 2019, AIM Media Midwest purchased the Greenville Earlybird, a Sunday only free-distribution newspaper in the area. The consolidation of the two publications now offers its advertising customers publishing capabilities Tuesdays through Fridays and Sundays each week.

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References

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  2. 1 2 "2011 Media Kit". DailyAdvocate.com. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  3. "About Daily Advocate". Chronicling America. Library of Congress . Retrieved June 11, 2012.
  4. Chalmers, Christina (October 28, 2009). "Advocate Committed to Downtown". DailyAdvocate.com. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  5. Sanctis, Matt (September 3, 2010). "Court Approves Brown Sale of Assets". Springfield News-Sun. Springfield, Ohio. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  6. Staff report (May 20, 2011). "Local Newspapers Under New Ownership". Springfield News-Sun. Springfield, Ohio. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  7. Business Wire, Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC , retrieved April 10, 2017{{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  8. "Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017". Dirks, Van Essen & Murray. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-10-28.