The Blade (newspaper)
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 The July 27, 2005 front page of The Blade |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Block Communications |
| Editor | Ron Royhab |
| Founded | 1835 |
| Headquarters | 541 North Superior Street Toledo, Ohio 43660  United States |
| Circulation | 125,956 Daily 154,566 Sunday[1] |
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| Website: toledoblade.com | |
The Blade is a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, first published on December 19, 1835. It was originally known as The Toledo Times.[2]
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[edit] Overview
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.
[edit] Labor disputes
Members of several unions worked without contracts from March–August 2006. Over the course of August 2006, The Blade locked out over 25% of all of its employees. It has been reported on national news sites that approximately 215 employees remain locked out.[3] Notable in the labor dispute is former WTOL anchor Jeff Heitz, who was the spokesman representing The Blade's management.
[edit] References
- ^ 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2007-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
- ^ With a clue (Metro Times Detroit)
- ^ http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070529/blade_unions.html?.v=1
