The Blade (newspaper)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Blade
The July 27, 2005 front page of The Blade
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Block Communications
Editor	Ron Royhab
Founded	1835
Headquarters	541 N. Superior St. Toledo, OH 43660 United States
Circulation	129,291 Daily 167,686 Sunday^[1]

Website: toledoblade.com

The Blade is a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, first published on December 19, 1835.

David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the civil war era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Writing under the pen name, Locke wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery to the Civil War to temperance. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them. In 1867 Locke bought The Blade.

In 2004 The Blade won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with a series of stories entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths". The story brought to light the story of the Tiger Force, a Vietnam fighting force that brutalized the local population. In 2006, The Blade was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the National Headliner Award, for breaking the scandal in Ohio known as Coingate.

Its current editor in chief is John Robinson Block, whose family purchased the paper in 1926 and who also own the media conglomerate Block Communications, which owns cable systems, television stations, and an Internet service network, Buckeye Express.

According to the 2005 World Almanac, The Blade has the 81st largest newspaper circulation in the U.S..

The Toledo Blade was named for the famed swordsmithing industry of the original city of Toledo, Spain.