Xenia Daily Gazette
{{Short description|American newspaper}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Xenia Daily Gazette
| image = Xenia Daily Gazette, May 31, 1917.jpg
| caption = Xenia Daily Gazette, May 31, 1917
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = {{start date|1868|08|18}}, as {{nowrap|Xenia Gazette}}{{cite web|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038246/ |title=About Xenia Gazette|work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=June 12, 2012}}
| ceased publication =
| owners = AIM Media Midwest
| publisher = Lane Moon
| editor =
| headquarters = 1836 West Park Square,
Xenia, Ohio 45385, {{nowrap|United States}}
| ISSN = 8750-4650
| website = [http://www.xeniagazette.com/ xeniagazette.com]
}}
The Xenia Daily Gazette is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American daily newspaper published twice per week in Xenia, Ohio and its surrounding area. It is owned by AIM Media based in McAllen, Texas.
It covers the city of Xenia and several nearby communities in Greene County, including Bellbrook, Cedarville, Clifton, Jamestown and Wilberforce.
History
The first edition of the Gazette was a weekly newspaper begun in Xenia in 1868. It converted to daily publication as the Xenia Daily Gazette in November 1881.
In 1975, the staff of the Xenia Daily Gazette won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting, in recognition of their coverage of the F5 tornado that decimated Xenia during the 1974 Super Outbreak, killing 34 residents and heavily damaging or destroying about half the buildings in the city.{{cite web|title=1975 Winners|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1975|work=Pulitzer.org|access-date=June 12, 2012}}
More recently, the Xenia Daily Gazette was the flagship newspaper of the Greene County Dailies division of Brown Publishing Company, which also included the Fairborn Daily Herald and the daily (now weekly) Beavercreek News-Current.{{cite news|title=Brown Publishing Unit Lays Off 4|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11913645.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325065927/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11913645.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 25, 2016|access-date=June 12, 2012|newspaper=Dayton Daily News|date=January 16, 2004}} Brown purchased the Greene County papers from The Thomson Corporation, a Canadian publisher, in 1998.{{cite news | url = http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2003/03/17/story6.html | title = Regional Publishing Company Gets Bigger | first = Kristen | last = Wicker | work = Dayton Business Journal | date = March 17, 2003 | access-date = December 15, 2010}}
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|access-date=June 12, 2012|newspaper=Springfield News-Sun|date=September 3, 2010|location=Springfield, Ohio}} The company, including the Xenia Daily Gazette, 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|access-date=June 12, 2012|newspaper=Springfield News-Sun|date=May 20, 2011|author=Staff report|location=Springfield, Ohio}}
In March 2019, delivery of the print Beavercreek News-Current ceased and it became a free publication to be picked up at local businesses.
Printed editions of the Gazette and Daily Herald were reduced from five to two days per week in February 2023, while daily versions are still produced on the newspaper websites.{{Cite web |last=Halasz |first=Scott |date=2023-02-20 |title=Gazette changing with the times |url=https://www.xeniagazette.com/2023/02/20/gazette-changing-with-the-times/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=The Xenia Gazette |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.xeniagazette.com Xenia Daily Gazette website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120530000518/http://www.ohcommedia.com/ Ohio Community Media]
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Category:Newspapers published in Ohio
Category:Newspapers established in 1868
Category:1868 establishments in Ohio
Category:Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers
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