LNP Media Group
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Genre | Newspapers |
| Founded | 1794 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Lancaster County |
| Website | LancasterOnline |
LNP Media Groupowns and publishesLNP,a daily newspaper based inLancaster County, Pennsylvania,andLancasterOnline,its online affiliate with monthly readership of over one million.LNPtraces its roots toThe Lancaster Journal,first published in 1794.[1]
LNP Media Group publishes three other local newspapers in Lancaster County:The Lititz Record Express,The Ephrata ReviewandThe Elizabethtown Advocate.Additionally, LNP Media Group owns and publishes two specialty publications:La Voz Lancaster(formerlyLa Voz Hispana), andFly After 5(formerlyFly Magazine).
LNP Media Group is owned by Steinman Communications, a corporation controlled by descendants of Andrew Jackson Steinman, who purchased the Intelligencer in 1866. In April 2023, Steinman Communications announced plans to donate most of LNP Media Group's holdings to Harrisburg public broadcasterWITF.
Specialty publications
[edit]La Voz Lancasteris a bi-monthly publication covering the Hispanic community in Lancaster County.[2]Fly After 5is a bi-monthly newspaper covering Lancaster Countynightlifeand entertainment.[3]
Steinman Communications
[edit]LNP Media Group is owned by Steinman Communications, a corporation controlled by descendants of Andrew Jackson Steinman, who purchased theIntelligencerin 1866.[4]The holding company owns Intelligencer Printing, one of the oldest commercial printing houses in the United States; Susquehanna Printing, a contract printer and publisher ofweekly newspapers;Delmarva Broadcasting Company;real estateinvestments inLancaster City;andenergyholdings insouthern Virginia.[5][6]
In April 2023, Steinman Communications announced plans to donate most of LNP Media Group's holdings to Harrisburg public broadcasterWITF.[7]
Intelligencer Journal
[edit]First printed in 1794 as theLancaster Journal,theIntelligencer Journalwas the largest circulation newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the oldest continuously published newspaper in theUnited States of Americathat had not changed its name.[citation needed]
Lancaster New Era
[edit]TheLancaster New Erawas founded in 1877 with the goal of taking the stateRepublicanmachineto task.[clarification needed]In 1920,New Eramerged with another Republican newspaper,The Examiner.Paul Block Sr.bought theNew Era-Examinerthree years later and positioned it to compete with the morningIntelligencerand afternoonNew Journal,both published by the Steinmans. When the venture failed in 1928, Block sold the paper, now namedNew Era,to the Steinmans, who merged theIntellandJournalinto the morningIntelligencer Journaland publishedNew Eraas an afternoon newspaper on every day of the week except Sunday. The Saturday edition was eliminated in 2007 and associated content moved to the Saturday-morning edition ofIntell.[citation needed]
By 2009,New Erahad the largest circulation of any Pennsylvania newspaper in the afternoon newspaper market. It won thePennsylvania NewsMedia AssociationSweepstakes Award four years in a row.[when?]Its reporting on theWest Nickel Mines School shootingin easternLancaster Countywon numerous state and national awards, among them the Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award and the Taylor Award for Fairness from theNieman Foundation for Journalism.
On 26 June 2009, Lancaster Newspapers published the final afternoon edition ofNew Era,citing increasing costs and decreasing readership, and merged it with theIntelligencer Journal.[8]Columns,comicsand othersyndicated contentpreviously reserved for the afternoon edition now appear in theJournal.[citation needed]
The Sunday News
[edit]Established in 1923 as the first localSunday newspaperin Lancaster County,The Sunday Newswas renamedSunday LNPin October 2014.[1][9]
La Voz Lancaster
[edit]La Voz Lancaster(formerlyLa Voz Hispana) is a bi-monthly news source for theHispanicpopulation of Lancaster County.[2]
The Caucus
[edit]The Caucusis a weekly watchdog investigative paper aimed at Pennsylvania politics.[10]
Editorial stance
[edit]TheIntelltraditionally retained acenter-lefteditorial stance, while theNew Erawas reliablyconservative.For five years after the papers merged, the combined publication ran two distincteditorial pages.In 2014, however, Lancaster Newspapers adopted anindependentstance, publishing a single editorial page thereafter.[11]
LNP
[edit]Under its current masthead,LNPwas first published in October 2014 with the tagline "Always Lancaster."[1]Thenewsroomcombines journalists fromThe Intelligencer Journal,New EraandSunday News.[1]
LancasterOnline
[edit]LancasterOnlineis asubscription servicethat provides access to all features in the daily newspaper and a searchabledigital archiveof all content published in the newspaper's history.[12]
References
[edit]- ^abcd"About Us".LancasterOnline.Retrieved2016-08-22.
- ^ab"La Voz Hispana".La Voz Hispana.LNP Media Group.Retrieved2016-08-22.
- ^"Fly After 5".Fly After 5.LNP Media Group.Retrieved2016-08-22.
- ^Brubaker, John H (1984).The Steinmans of Lancaster: A Family and its Enterprises.Steinman Enterprises.ISBN0-9613782-0-4.
- ^"Our brands - Steinman Communications".Steinman Communications.Retrieved2016-08-22.
- ^Writer, JOE HAINTHALER | Staff."Martin: It's crunch time for Lancaster County Convention Center".Retrieved2016-08-22.
- ^Umble, Chad (26 April 2023)."After 158 years, Steinmans gifting LNP to public broadcasting station WITF".LancasterOnline.Retrieved26 April2023.
- ^Writer, JACK BRUBAKER Staff."A new beginning for Lancaster New Era".Retrieved2016-08-22.
- ^"A Whodunnit Still Unraveled: Teacher's Murder Tangled in a Web of Mystery".The Sunday News.Associated Press.1983-07-24. p. A-6.Retrieved2023-08-26– viaNewspapers.
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- ^"The Caucus".The Caucus.LNP Media Group.Retrieved2020-01-29.
- ^"Lancaster Newspapers announces shift in opinion policy".LancasterOnline.LNP Media Group.Retrieved2016-08-22.
- ^"LNP|Lancaster Online".LNP Media Group.Retrieved2023-09-19.
