Schenectady Gazette
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The Daily Gazette Co. |
| Publisher | John DeAugustine |
| Editor | Judith Patrick |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Headquarters | 2345 Maxon Road Extension Schenectady, New York United States |
| ISSN | 1050-0340 |
| Website | dailygazette.com |
The Daily Gazette, formerly The Schenectady Gazette, is an independently owned daily newspaper based in Schenectady, New York and mainly covers the counties of Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Fulton, Schoharie, and Montgomery.
The newspaper was formed in 1894 when the Schenectady Printing Association took over a weekly called the Schenectady Gazette and turned it into a daily, renaming it The Daily Gazette in 1895. Despite there being two other city newspapers — the Evening Star and the Union – the Gazette was successful under the leadership of Gerardus Smith, who became the first president of the renamed Daily Gazette Company in March 1899. One of five children of David Cady Smith, the founder in 1837 of a Schenectady law firm, Gerardus also studied law, but he seemed better suited for life as a banker and businessman, and it was his brother Everett who followed their father into the family’s law practice.
Describing itself as “independent in politics,” the Gazette claimed by August 1895 that it had the largest circulation in Schenectady, selling 3,000 papers a day. In 1902, the paper bought a new press and began going by the name of its predecessor, the Schenectady Gazette.
Gerardus Smith was succeeded in 1917 by Austin N. Liecty. The first non-relative to serve as president of the company, his tenure ended in 1945. John G. Green, who married Gerardus Smith’s daughter, Eleanor Smith, followed Liecty in the presidency from 1945 to 1964, and then Eleanor served in that capacity from 1965 to 1983, followed by her nephew John E. N. Hume Jr., from 1983 to 1986. His brother David Hume was president from 1986 until 1993, when John’s son, John E. N. (Jack) Hume III, took over the reins. David Hume's daughter Elizabeth Hume Lind assumed the presidency and son William Hume the vice presidency in 2013.
It was Liecty who in 1924 oversaw the Gazette's purchase of the property on State Street it had been renting since 1899, and on January 4, 1926, the newspaper rolled off the presses with a “new look.” Little was changed in the Gazette's appearance over the next five decades until 1984, when, due to a national change in advertising standards, the newspaper went from eight columns to six.
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