Syracuse Post-Standard

The Post-Standard

The first issue of The Onondaga Standard, Sept. 10, 1829.
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Advance Publications
President	Timothy R. Kennedy
Founded	1829 (as The Onondaga Standard)
Headquarters	220 S. Warren St. Syracuse, NY 13202  United States
Circulation	71,101 Tues./Thurs. 120,363 Sunday
Website	www.syracuse.com

The Post-Standard is a major daily newspaper serving the greater Syracuse, New York metro area. Published by Advance Publications, it is one of two brands of the Syracuse Media Group, formed in 2012 as a digitally focused company. The other major brand is Syracuse.com. The newspaper is published seven days a week and is home-delivered to subscribers on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. It is available in retail outlets and via e-edition every day.

The Post-Standard was founded in 1829 as The Onondaga Standard. The first issue was published Sept. 10, 1829, after Vivus W. Smith consolidated the Onondaga Journal with the Syracuse Advertiser under The Onondaga Standard name. Through the 1800s, it was known variously as The Weekly Standard, The Daily Standard and The Syracuse Standard.

On July 10, 1894, The Syracuse Post was first published. On Dec. 26, 1898, the owners of The Daily Standard and The Syracuse Post merged to form The Post-Standard. The first issue of the newly merged paper was published Jan. 1, 1899. The merged company was based at 136 E. Genesee St. in Syracuse.

By 1900, Syracuse had a population of 135,000 and the publication had a "sworn circulation" of 17,575 daily, 12,571 semi-weekly and 15,195 on Sunday. It was touted as "a clean, wholesome, aggressive, up-to-date newspaper." The newspaper bragged that "The Post-Standard has a larger circulation than any other daily paper between Greater New York and Rochester."

On July 23, 1939, publisher Samuel I. Newhouse entered the Syracuse market, buying Syracuse's two evening papers, the Syracuse Herald and the Syracuse Journal, and then merging them into the Syracuse Herald-Journal. He also launched a Sunday paper, the Herald American. In 1944, Newhouse bought The Post-Standard. (Later, Newhouse became the benefactor of Syracuse University's acclaimed S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.)

The news and editorial departments of the newspapers operated independently from each other for decades. The Post-Standard was published in the morning, the Herald-Journal in the afternoon, and the Herald American on Sundays. Until 1971, when a new building on Clinton Square opened, the newspapers were published in separate locations. The newspapers became known collectively as The Syracuse Newspapers. By the turn of the century, it became apparent that Syracuse could no longer support two newspapers. The Herald-Journal closed in September 2001, and was merged into The Post-Standard.