Lancaster Newspapers, Inc

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Lancaster Newspapers, Inc
Type Private
Genre Newspapers
Founded 1794
Headquarters Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Area served Lancaster County

Lancaster Newspapers Inc. is the owner and publisher of three major newspapers and a Spanish periodical in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is located in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and was founded by the Steinman family.

The company also runs an internet media site, Lancaster Online, that combines the efforts of all three sources of information.

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[edit] Intelligencer Journal

Main article: Intelligencer Journal

Type: morning daily
Editor: Ray Shaw

First printed in 1796, the Intelligencer Journal is the oldest continuous newspaper in the United States of America that has not changed its name. The "Intel" generally takes a liberal editorial stance.

[edit] Lancaster New Era

Type: afternoon daily
Editor: Ernest J. Schreiber
Managing Editor: Peter Mekeel

The Lancaster New Era has the largest circulation of any afternoon newspaper in Pennsylvania. It has won the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association's Sweepstakes Award four years in a row.

Its sensitive reporting on the tragic shooting of six girls at the Nickel Mine Amish School in southern Lancaster County won numerous state and national awards, among them, the Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award and the Taylor Award for Fairness, given by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

On its editoral page, the New Era generally takes conservative positions.

[edit] Sunday News

Type: Sunday
Editor: Marv Adams

[edit] La Voz Hispana

Type: Spanish-language

La Voz Hispana, translated as The Hispanic Voice, is the major news sources for the Spanish-speaking publication that produces local stories as well as issues and events in the outside Spanish-speaking world.