| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Genre | Newspapers |
| Founded | 1794 |
| Headquarters | Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Area served | Lancaster County |
| Website | LancasterOnline.com |
Lancaster Newspapers Inc. owns and publishes two major newspapers, the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era Monday through Saturday mornings, and the Sunday News. Additionally, it publishes three weekly minor newspapers, Lititz Record, Ephrata Review and Lancaster Farming, and one bi-weekly Spanish periodical, La Voz Hispana. The headquarters and printing operations for the daily newspapers and La Voz are located in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and serve all of Lancaster County.
Lancaster Newspapers is owned by Steinman Enterprises, which also holds Intelligencer Printing (one of the oldest commercial printing houses in the US, a $50 million business largely serving clients in the retail, direct mail, financial, pharmaceutical, and high-tech sectors), Lancaster County Weeklies (a 62,000-square-foot (5,800 m2) printing facility in Ephrata which publishes their weekly newspapers and does job printing of other weeklies), Delmarva Broadcasting (radio stations in Delaware and Maryland) and Steinman Coal in southwestern Virginia (which also leases oil and natural gas deposits). They joined with High Enterprises and Fulton Bank in jointly developing the Lancaster Convention Center (although Fulton withdrew before the project was completed) and they operate both the Pressroom Restaurant, and the Newseum. Steinman Enterprises is a corporation, closely held by descendants of Andrew Jackson Steinman, who purchased the Intelligencer in 1866.
The company also runs an internet media site, Lancaster Online.
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Type: morning daily
Editor: Ray Shaw
First printed in 1796 as the Intelligencer, the Intelligencer Journal is the largest circulation newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It is also the oldest continuous newspaper in the United States of America that has not changed its name. For most of its run, the Intell has taken a liberal editorial stance.
Type: afternoon daily (now defunct)
Editor: Ernest J. Schreiber
Managing Editor: Peter Mekeel
The Lancaster New Era was founded in 1877 as a newspaper in Lancaster with the goal of taking the Republican state machine to task and ushering in a New Era in politics. In 1920, the New Era merged with another Republican newspaper, The Examiner. In 1923, Paul Block, Sr. bought the New Era-Examiner and aimed it to compete with the morning Intelligencer and afternoon New Journal, both published by the Steinmans. It failed and Block sold the then-renamed New Era to the Steinmans in 1928. The Steinmans merged the Intell and the Journal as the new morning paper and published the New Era as an afternoon newspaper continuously on every day of the week except Sundays, until 2007 when the Saturday edition was eliminated and the content moved to the Saturday morning Intell.
On 26 June 2009, Lancaster Newspapers published the New Era as an afternoon newspaper for the final time, citing increasing costs and decreasing readership as reasons it merged with the Intelligencer Journal.[1] Before its demise, it had the largest circulation of any Pennsylvania newspaper in the afternoon newspaper market.
It won the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association's Sweepstakes Award four years in a row. The sensitive reporting on the tragic shooting of six girls at the Nickel Mine Amish School in eastern 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.
The Intelligencer Journal is now co-branded with the New Era. Columns, comics and other syndicated content previously reserved for the afternoon edition now appear in the Intell. New Era readers, a set who had previously enjoyed the conservative positions taken by their newspaper, have not been alienated, as their editorial content now appears in the morning Intell, a paper with a decidedly more liberal position.
Type: Sunday
Editor: Marv Adams
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 Spanish-speaking world.