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The November 5, 2008 front page of
The Columbus Dispatch |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | compact, three-around |
| Owner(s) | New Media Investment Group |
| Publisher | Bradley M. Harmon |
| Editor | Alan D. Miller |
| Founded | 1871 |
| Headquarters | 62 E Broad St Columbus, Ohio 43215 US |
| Circulation | 137,148 Daily 257,479 Sunday (March 2013) |
| ISSN | 1074-097X |
| Website | dispatch |
The Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio. Its first issue was published on July 1, 1871, and has been the only mainstream daily newspaper in the city since The Columbus Citizen-Journal ceased publication in 1985.
In a sale announced on June 3, 2015, ownership of the Dispatch was transferred to New Media Investment Group. The Dispatch Broadcast Group, comprising WBNS-AM-FM-TV in Columbus and WTHR in Indianapolis, will remain in the hands of the Wolfe family.
As of October 26, 2015, Bradley M. Harmon is the newspaper's president and publisher. Alan D. Miller is the editor.
The paper was founded in June 1871 by a group of 10 printers with US$ 900 in financial capital. The paper published its first issue as The Daily Dispatch on July 1, 1871, as a four-page paper which cost US$0.04 per copy. The paper was originally an afternoon paper for the city of Columbus, Ohio, which at the time had a population of 32,000. For its first few years, the paper rented a headquarters on North High Street and Lynn Alley in Columbus. It began with 800 subscribers.
On April 2, 1888, the paper published its first full-page advertisement, for the Columbus Buggy Company. In 1895, the paper moved its headquarters to the northeast corner of Gay and High streets, a larger building on a site which was previously a grocer. On April 10, the paper published a 72-page edition to mark the move. On December 17, 1899, the paper published its first Sunday edition, a 36-page paper which cost US$0.03, and the daily editions were reduced in price to US$0.02. Two years later on March 3, 1901, the paper published its first color comic strips.
The paper, renamed The Columbus Evening Dispatch, changed hands several times in its early years. In 1905, it was purchased by the Wolfe family, with brothers Harry Preston Wolfe and Robert Frederick Wolfe. The Wolfes, who originally ran a shoe company, had purchased the Ohio State Journal two years before. On December 16, 1906, the paper published its first color ad, for Beggs Store. On April 9, 1907, the Dispatch offices were destroyed in a fire, and the building was demolished and rebuilt. In the interlude, the paper ran its offices out of 34/36 North High Street.
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