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The Cincinnati Post
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 The Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, corporate headquarters of The Cincinnati Post. |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | E. W. Scripps Company |
| Editor | Mike Philipps |
| Founded | January 3, 1881 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 125 East Court St. Cincinnati, Ohio 45202  United States |
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| Website: The Cincinnati Post | |
The Cincinnati Post is an afternoon daily newspaper published since 1881 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is owned by The E. W. Scripps Company. Since the 1980s, its editorial stance has usually been conservative. The Post is currently scheduled to publish its final edition on December 31, 2007.
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The Post was first published by Frank and Walter Wellman on 1881-01-03. It was originally called the Penny Post. The Kentucky Post was created as an edition of the paper in 1885 to serve Cincinnati's suburbs across the Ohio River. The Wellman brothers enlisted James E. Scripps and half-brother Edward Wyllis Scripps, to take over the paper later that year.
In 1958, it absorbed The Cincinnati Times-Star, another afternoon paper. It first published on 1880-06-15, when the Spirit of the Times (founded in 1840) and the Cincinnati Daily Star (founded in 1872) merged. The combined papers would be published under the name The Cincinnati Post and Times-Star until 1974-12-31; afterward it was simply The Cincinnati Post.
In 1977, the paper entered into a joint operating agreement with the other daily in Cincinnati, the morning Cincinnati Enquirer. Under the agreement, the Enquirer handles all business functions of both papers, including printing, distribution, and selling advertising. The JOA has not been successful for the paper. When it was entered into, the Post outsold the Enquirer, but by 2004 the positions were reversed: the Enquirer outsells the Post by five to one. In January 2004, the Enquirer informed the Post it would not be renewing the agreement upon its expiration on 2007-12-31.[1] On July 17, 2007, parent company E.W. Scripps announced both The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post would cease publication, their last editions to be published on Dec. 31, 2007.
In the spring of 2004, the Post ended its distribution in the northern suburbs in Butler and Warren Counties to concentrate on Hamilton County and its Kentucky edition. Also in that same year political cartoonist, Jeff Stahler left the Post for the Columbus Dispatch. In June 2005, the paper announced it was offering employees early retirement in advance of the paper's probable closure.
The paper will come to an end due to a number of factors including the end of the joint operating agreement, a 75% decrease in readership, and decreasing advertising revenues.[2]
- Michael Kelly – editor-at-large of the Atlantic Monthly and columnist for the Washington Post[2]
- Alicia Reece – Cincinnati Vice-Mayor[2]
- Gary Webb – Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist[2]
- ^ E. W. Scripps Company (2004-01-16)." Newspaper JOA in Cincinnati will not be renewed after 2007". Press release. Retrieved on 2006-09-09.
- ^ a b c d Osborne, Kevin. "The Light Dims", Cincinnati CityBeat, 2007-02-21.