The ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' is a

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daily newspaper published daily except Sunday in Xenia, Ohio. It is owned by AIM Media based in McAllen, Texas. It covers the city of Xenia and several nearby communities in Greene County, including

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, Cedarville,

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, Jamestown and Wilberforce.

History

The first edition of the ''Gazette'' was a weekly newspaper begun in Xenia in 1868. It converted to daily publication as the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' in November 1881. In 1975, the staff of the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' won the

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, in recognition of their coverage of the F5 tornado that decimated Xenia during the

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, killing 34 residents and heavily damaging or destroying about half the buildings in the city. More recently, the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' was the flagship newspaper of the Greene County Dailies division of Brown Publishing Company, which also included the ''

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'' and the daily (now weekly) ''Beavercreek News-Current''. Brown purchased the Greene County papers from The Thomson Corporation, a Canadian publisher, in 1998. Brown, a Cincinnati-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010. The company, including the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management. In March 2019, delivery of the print Beavercreek News-Current ceased. The website stopped being updated in April and became inaccessible in May. It appears the Xenia Daily Gazette has suffered the same fate.

References

External links

''Xenia Daily Gazette'' website

Ohio Community Media
Greene County, Ohio Newspapers published in Ohio Newspapers established in 1868 Xenia, Ohio 1868 establishments in Ohio Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers {{Ohio-newspaper-stub