The April 5, 2007 front page of The Frederick News-Post |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Randall Family, LLC |
| Publisher | Myron Randall, Jr. |
| Founded | 1883 (as The News) |
| Headquarters | 351 Ballenger Center Drive Frederick, Maryland 21703 United States |
| ISSN | None |
| OCLC number | 31371730 |
| Official website | FrederickNewsPost.com |
The Frederick News-Post is the local newspaper of Frederick County, Maryland. Ever since a massive televised, radio, print and sign media campaign began referring to it as The FNP, others have begun to do so as well. In addition to discussing local news, the newspaper addresses international, national, and regional news. The paper publishes six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday, and had weekday paid circulation of 33,082 and Sunday paid circulation of 34,602 in 2011.[1]
On October 15, 1883, a Frederick printing company first published The News, an evening newspaper that would eventually become The Frederick News-Post. In 1916, through a business deal, The News acquired rival paper The Frederick Post, publishing The News in the evenings and The Frederick Post in the morning. In 2002, the two papers were merged to create a single morning edition known as The Frederick News-Post. The Sunday edition created in October of that year created a true daily paper published 365 days a year.
The paper has been controlled by the same family since it was founded.
In 2004, publisher George E. Randall died. He was a fourth-generation descendant of the founder. His brother, Myron Randall, Jr. was named President and Publisher. William B. Randall, Myron Randall's son and a fifth-generation family member, joined the company.[2]
In April 2008, The News-Post moved into a new building, with a new high-speed, six-tower TKS press capable of printing 70,000 copies an hour.[3][4]
In early November 2008, Randall Family LLC, publisher of The Frederick News-Post, laid off 17 employees, four from the newsroom. The total layoffs represented about 7% of the company's workforce, and were the result of a dramatic drop in advertising revenue over the preceding two years. It was the first time in company history that layoffs had been issued.[5]
In 2009, The Frederick News-Post ceased its Monday edition, making the paper available six days a week.[6] Employees were forced to take five-day furloughs, and the company reduced its pension benefits to employees.
In 2011, The News-Post named Geordie Wilson as publisher. Wilson previously had served as publisher of the Concord Monitor of Concord, NH and as publisher of the Monadnock Ledger (now the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript) of Peterborough, NH. Myron Randall remained president of Randall Family LLC.[7]