LNP Media Group owns and publishes '' LNP'', a daily newspaper based in

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, and ''LancasterOnline'', its online affiliate with monthly readership of over one million. ''LNP'' traces its roots to ''The Lancaster Journal'', first published in 1794. LNP Media Group publishes three other local newspapers in Lancaster County: ''The Lititz Record Express'', ''The Ephrata Review'' and ''

The Elizabethtown Advocate ''The Elizabethtown Advocate'' was a weekly newspaper serving Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, from 2010 to 2021. The paper grew from having approximately 600 copies being produced weekly in 2011 2] to a paid circulation of 5,982 as of 2017 before ce ...

''. Additionally, LNP Media Group owns and publishes three specialty publications: ''Lancaster Farming'', ''La Voz Lancaster'' (formerly ''La Voz Hispana''), and ''Fly After 5'' (formerly ''Fly Magazine'').

Specialty publications

''Lancaster Farming'' is a farm newspaper for the mid-Atlantic region with paid circulation of over sixty thousand. ''La Voz Lancaster'' is a bi-monthly publication covering the Hispanic community in Lancaster County. ''Fly After 5'' is a bi-monthly newspaper covering Lancaster County

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and entertainment.

Steinman Communications

LNP Media Group is owned by Steinman Communications, a corporation controlled by descendants of Andrew Jackson Steinman, who purchased the ''Intelligencer'' in 1866. The holding company owns Intelligencer Printing, one of the oldest commercial printing houses in the United States; Susquehanna Printing, a contract printer and publisher of

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s; Delmarva Broadcasting Company;

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investments in

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; and

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holdings in

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''Intelligencer Journal''

First printed in 1794 as the ''Lancaster Journal'', the ''Intelligencer Journal'' was the largest circulation newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the

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that had not changed its name.

''Lancaster New Era''

The ''Lancaster New Era'' was founded in 1877 with the goal of taking the state Republican

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to task. In 1920, ''New Era'' merged with another Republican newspaper, ''The Examiner''. Paul Block Sr. bought the ''New Era-Examiner'' three years later and positioned it to compete with the morning ''Intelligencer'' and afternoon ''New Journal'', both published by the Steinmans. When the venture failed in 1928, Block sold the paper, now named ''New Era'', to the Steinmans, who merged the ''Intell'' and ''Journal'' into the morning ''Intelligencer Journal'' and published ''New Era'' as 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 of ''Intell''. By 2009, ''New Era'' had the largest circulation of any Pennsylvania newspaper in the afternoon newspaper market. It won the

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Sweepstakes Award four years in a row. Its reporting on the

West Nickel Mines School shooting On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV ...

in eastern Lancaster County won numerous state and national awards, among them the Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award and the Taylor Award for Fairness from the

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. On 26 June 2009, Lancaster Newspapers published the final afternoon edition of ''New Era'', citing increasing costs and decreasing readership, and merged it with the ''Intelligencer Journal''.

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and other syndicated content previously reserved for the afternoon edition now appear in the ''Journal''.

''Sunday News''

Established in 1923 as the first local

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in Lancaster County, ''Sunday News'' was renamed ''Sunday LNP'' in October 2014.

''La Voz Lancaster''

''La Voz Lancaster'' (formerly ''La Voz Hispana'') is a bi-monthly news source for the

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population of Lancaster County.

''The Caucus''

''The Caucus'' is a weekly watchdog investigative paper aimed at Pennsylvania politics

Editorial stance

The ''Intell'' traditionally retained a

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editorial stance, while the ''New Era'' was reliably

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. For five years after the papers merged, the combined publication ran two distinct

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s. In 2014, however, Lancaster Newspapers adopted an

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stance, publishing a single editorial page thereafter.

LNP

Under its current masthead, ''LNP'' was first published in October 2014 with the tagline "Always Lancaster." The

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combines journalists from ''The Intelligencer Journal'', ''New Era'' and ''Sunday News''.

''LancasterOnline''

LancasterOnline
' is a

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that provides access to all features in the daily newspaper and a searchable

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of all content published in the newspaper's history.

References

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