The Daily Advocate
{{Short description|Newspaper in Greenville, Ohio}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
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| name = The Daily Advocate
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| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = {{start date|1883|05|03}}, as Darke County Democratic Advocate{{cite web|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87076985/ |title=About Darke County Democratic Advocate|work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=June 12, 2012}}
| ceased publication =
| owners = AIM Media Midwest
| publisher = Ron Clausen
| editor = Ryan Berry
| circulation =
| headquarters = 100 Washington Ave,
Greenville, Ohio 45331, {{nowrap|United States}}
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| website = [http://www.dailyadvocate.com/ dailyadvocate.com]
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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.{{cite web|title=2011 Media Kit|url=http://issuu.com/darkecounty/docs/2011_mediakit?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&backgroundColor=000000&showFlipBtn=true&proShowMenu=true&proShowSidebar=true|work=DailyAdvocate.com|accessdate=June 12, 2012}}
History
The Advocate was founded by W.A. Browne, Sr. as an eight-page weekly newspaper in May 1883. Browne converted it to daily publication around January 1893, as the Daily Advocate.{{cite web|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035569/ |title=About Daily Advocate|work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=June 11, 2012}}
Browne sold the paper to The Thomson Corporation, a Canadian publisher, which later sold it to Brown Publishing Company in 1996.{{cite news|title=Advocate Committed to Downtown |date=October 28, 2009|first=Christina|last=Chalmers|url=http://dailyadvocate.com/main.asp?SectionID=37&SubSectionID=623&ArticleID=131914&TM=50013.18|work=DailyAdvocate.com|accessdate=June 12, 2012}}
Brown, a Cincinnati-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010.{{cite news|last=Sanctis|first=Matt|title=Court Approves Brown Sale of Assets|url=http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/court-approves-brown-sale-of-assets-897201.html?cxtype=rss_334520|accessdate=June 12, 2012|newspaper=Springfield News-Sun|date=September 3, 2010|location=Springfield, Ohio}} The company, including the Daily Advocate, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.{{cite news|title=Local Newspapers Under New Ownership|url=http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-business-news/local-newspapers-under-new-ownership-1165060.html?cxtype=rss_business|accessdate=June 12, 2012|newspaper=Springfield News-Sun|date=May 20, 2011|author=Staff report|location=Springfield, Ohio}}
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.{{citation |accessdate=April 10, 2017|url= http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120911006840/en/Versa-Capital-Announces-Formation-Civitas-Media-LLC |author=Business Wire | title= Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC }} Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.{{Cite web| title = Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017| work = Dirks, Van Essen & Murray| accessdate = 2017-10-28| date = 2017-06-30| url = http://dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/225/2nd-quarter-2017/}} 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.
References
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External links
- [http://www.dailyadvocate.com Advocate website]
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Category:Newspapers published in Ohio
Category:1883 establishments in Ohio
Category:Newspapers established in 1883
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