The Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pennsylvania)

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Locally called "The Intell'", The Intelligencer started in 1804 as the Bucks County Intelligencer, a weekly newspaper in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In 1876, the Bucks County Intelligencer moved to an ornate building at 10 E. Court St. in Doylestown, which still stands.

In the 1880s, the newspaper became a daily, which called itself The Daily Intelligencer.

In 1973, The Daily Intelligencer moved to its current headquarters at 333 N. Broad St. in Doylestown, and dropped the "Daily" part of its name in the 1990s.

Up until the 1970s, it published as an afternoon newspaper Monday through Saturday. It dropped the Saturday edition for a short time in the late 1970s when it added a Sunday morning edition.

It also published a sister newspaper, the Montgomery County Record (later The Record) in the 1980s and 1990s. As the Montgomery County Record, it was an independent subsidiary competing with its parent newspaper, arriving on the same doorsteps as The Daily Intelligencer.

Later, as The Record, that sister paper was merely a Montgomery County edition of The Daily Intelligencer.

Owned by Calkins Media, Inc., The Intelligencer now publishes a morning edition seven days a week. Long regarded as a Republican-leaning newspaper, it has moved to the center in recent years.