The Delaware Gazette

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The Delaware Gazette
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) AIM Media Midwest
EditorJoshua Keeran since 2018
FoundedOctober 1, 1818 (1818-10-01), as the Delaware Gazette, and Religious Informer [1]
Headquarters40 North Sandusky Street, Suite 203,
Delaware, Ohio 43015, United States
Circulation 8,000(as of 2004) [2]
ISSN 1064-2013
Website delgazette.com

The Delaware Gazette is an American daily newspaper published in Delaware, Ohio. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest.

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The newspaper is published on weekday and Saturday mornings and is the only daily newspaper in Delaware County, Ohio. The paper's circulation in 2004 was approximately 8,000 daily. [2]

In addition to the daily newspaper, the Gazette newsroom also publishes The Sunbury News, a weekly newspaper in nearby Sunbury, Ohio, and provides commercial printing and website management services. [3]

History

Former offices of The Gazette in Delaware, Ohio Delaware Gazette offices.jpg
Former offices of The Gazette in Delaware, Ohio

The Delaware Gazette was founded as a weekly newspaper in 1818, by Abram Thomson and a partner. In 1834, Thomson bought out his partner and from that time until 2004, the newspaper was owned and managed by members of the Thomson family. The Gazette published its first edition as a daily newspaper January 10, 1884.

In June 2004, W.D. "Tom" Thomson II, the great-great-grandson of Abram Thomson, sold the Gazette to Brown Publishing Company of Cincinnati. At the time of its sale, the newspaper had been owned by a single family longer than any other newspaper in America. [2]

At the time, Thomson family members said they had not been under pressure to sell the newspaper, and chose to sell it to Brown because it, too, was a longstanding family-owned business:

"We had a hell of a ride," said Gazette vice president Chip Thomson. "I'm at peace." [2]

Brown declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010. [4] The company, including the Gazette, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management. [5] In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former Freedom papers it had acquired, Impressions Media, and Heartland Publications into a new company, Civitas Media. [6] Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017. [7] [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "About Delaware Gazette, and Religious Informer". Chronicling America. Library of Congress . Retrieved June 11, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Wilson, Dana; Hawes, Jane (June 4, 2004). "Delaware, Ohio, Publication Sold". The Columbus Dispatch. via HighBeam Research. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2012.(subscription required)
  3. ↑ "About". Delgazette.com. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ Sanctis, Matt (September 3, 2010). "Court Approves Brown Sale of Assets". Springfield News-Sun. Springfield, Ohio. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  5. ↑ Staff report (May 20, 2011). "Local Newspapers Under New Ownership". Springfield News-Sun. Springfield, Ohio. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ Business Wire (12 September 2012), Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC , retrieved April 10, 2017{{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  7. ↑ "Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017". Dirks, Van Essen & Murray. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  8. ↑ "AIM Media Midwest acquires Ohio publishing group - Delaware Gazette". 13 June 2017.


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