The ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' is a

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-winning American

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published twice per week in

Xenia, Ohio Xenia ( ) is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located in southwestern Ohio, it is east of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton and is part of the Greater Dayton, Dayton metropolitan area as well as the Miami Valley region. As o ...

and its surrounding area. It is owned by AIM Media based in McAllen, Texas. It covers the city of Xenia and several nearby communities in Greene County, including Bellbrook, Cedarville, Clifton, Jamestown and Wilberforce.

History

The first edition of the ''Gazette'' was a

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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

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, which also included the '' Fairborn Daily Herald'' and the daily (now weekly) ''Beavercreek News-Current''. Brown purchased the Greene County papers from

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, a

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publisher, in 1998. Brown, a

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-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as

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in 2010. The company, including the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by

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-based Versa Capital Management. In March 2019, delivery of the print Beavercreek News-Current ceased and it became a free publication to be picked up at local businesses. Printed editions of the Gazette and Daily Herald were reduced from five to two days per week in February 2023, while daily versions are still produced on the newspaper websites.

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