Editing Chillicothe Gazette

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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Chillicothe Gazette
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| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| foundation = 1793 (as the ''Centinel of the Northwest Territory'')
| ceased publication = 
| price = 
| owners = [[Gannett]]
| founder = [[William Maxwell (engraver)|William Maxwell]]
| editor = 
| language = 
| circulation = 15,553 Afternoon<br>15,645 Sunday
| circulation_date = 2007
| circulation_ref = <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gannett.com/about/map/ataglance/chilli.htm |title=About Gannett: Chillicothe Gazette |access-date=2007-03-01 |publisher=Gannett Co., Inc. }}</ref>
| headquarters = 927 E. Main Street.<br>[[Chillicothe, Ohio|Chillicothe]], [[Ohio|OH]] 45601<br> [[United States]]
| ISSN = 
| website = {{URL|chillicothegazette.com}}
}}

The '''''Chillicothe Gazette''''' is [[Ohio]]'s oldest [[newspaper]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xs4LAJdUqlUC&q=%22anderson+ferry%22e&pg=PA123 | title=Shifra Stein's Day Trips from Cincinnati: Getaways Less Than Two Hours Away | publisher=Globe Pequot | date=Oct 1, 2003 | access-date=2013-04-25 | author=Hunter, David | pages=123| isbn=9780762727490 }}</ref> The daily newspaper is based in [[Chillicothe, Ohio]], the seat of [[Ross County, Ohio|Ross County]], and is owned by [[Gannett]]. A complete file is in the library of the [[Ohio Historical Society]] in Cincinnati.

== History ==
On November 9, 1793, [[William Maxwell (engraver)|William Maxwell]] published the first edition of ''The Centinel of the Northwest Territory,'' a weekly newspaper in [[Cincinnati]]. It was the first paper published in the [[Northwest Territory]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Truslow Adams |first=James |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer0000unse_j4d9 |title=Dictionary of American History |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1940 |location=[[New York City]] |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Subscription was "250 cents" per annum, and 7 cents a single copy. The motto of the ''Centinel'': "Open to all Parties -- but influenced by none," expressed the publisher's aims: to afford an isolated community a medium to make known its varied wants and to record local happenings, as well as those of the outside world.<ref name=":0" />

The newspaper was published weekly until June 1796 when it was sold to Edmund Freeman who merged it with ''Freeman's Journal''. Around 1800, the paper moved to [[Chillicothe, Ohio]], when the government of the [[Northwest Territory]] relocated to that city <ref name=":0" />

The paper eventually assumed the name ''The Chillicothe Gazette''. Gannett sold the paper in the 1990s to [[Community Newspaper Holdings]], who in turn sold to [[The Thomson Corporation]]. When Thomson exited the newspaper business in the late 1990s, Gannett bought it back.

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==External links==
{{Portal|Ohio|Journalism}}
* [http://www.chillicothegazette.com/ ''Chillicothe Gazette'' official site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130402055251/http://m.chillicothegazette.com/ Official mobile website]

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[[Category:Newspapers published in Ohio]]
[[Category:Chillicothe, Ohio]]
[[Category:Gannett publications]]
[[Category:1793 establishments in the Northwest Territory]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1793]]


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