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'''The Cincinnati Post''' is an afternoon daily newspaper published since 1881 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is owned by The E. W. Scripps Company. Since the 1980s, its editorial stance has usually been conservative. ''The Post'' is currently scheduled to publish its final edition on December 31, 2007.

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History

Notable former employees

References

External links

History

''The Post'' was first published by Frank and Walter Wellman on 1881-01-03. It was originally called the ''Penny Post''. ''The Kentucky Post'' was created as an edition of the paper in 1885 to serve Cincinnati's suburbs across the Ohio River. The Wellman brothers enlisted James E. Scripps and half-brother Edward Wyllis Scripps, to take over the paper later that year.
In 1958, it absorbed ''The Cincinnati Times-Star'', another afternoon paper. It first published on 1880-06-15, when the ''Spirit of the Times'' (founded in 1840) and the ''Cincinnati Daily Star'' (founded in 1872) merged. The combined papers would be published under the name ''The Cincinnati Post and Times-Star'' until 1974-12-31; afterward it was simply ''The Cincinnati Post''.
In 1977, the paper entered into a joint operating agreement with the other daily in Cincinnati, the morning ''Cincinnati Enquirer''. Under the agreement, the ''Enquirer'' handles all business functions of both papers, including printing, distribution, and selling advertising. The JOA has not been successful for the paper. When it was entered into, the ''Post'' outsold the ''Enquirer'', but by 2004 the positions were reversed: the ''Enquirer'' outsells the ''Post'' by five to one. In January 2004, the ''Enquirer'' informed the ''Post'' it would not be renewing the agreement upon its expiration on 2007-12-31.^[1] On July 17, 2007, parent company E.W. Scripps announced both ''The Cincinnati Post'' and ''The Kentucky Post'' would cease publication, their last editions to be published on Dec. 31, 2007.
In the spring of 2004, the ''Post'' ended its distribution in the northern suburbs in Butler and Warren Counties to concentrate on Hamilton County and its Kentucky edition. Also in that same year political cartoonist, Jeff Stahler left the ''Post'' for the ''Columbus Dispatch''. In June 2005, the paper announced it was offering employees early retirement in advance of the paper's probable closure.
The paper will come to an end due to a number of factors including the end of the joint operating agreement, a 75% decrease in readership, and decreasing advertising revenues.^[2]

Notable former employees

★ Michael Kelly – editor-at-large of the ''Atlantic Monthly'' and columnist for the ''Washington Post''²

★ Alicia Reece – Cincinnati Vice-Mayor²

★ Gary Webb – Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist²

References

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2. The Light Dims Kevin Osborne

External links

★ The Cincinnati Post web site

★ Scripps subsidiary profile of ''The Cincinnati Post''