The Daily Item (Sunbury)
Circulation Approx 10,500 Weekdays, 12,500 Sunday | | |
| Website | dailyitem.com | |
|---|---|---|
The Daily Item is a
Community Newspaper Holdings
Inc.
History
The Sunbury Daily (founded 1872) and The Evening Item (1893) merged July 1, 1936. Publishing five afternoons per week, The Daily Item was owned by the Dewart family and other local investors until April 15. 1970, when
Ottaway Community Newspapers purchased it. Ottaway streamlined and upgraded the newspaper. It built new presses in 1979 and introduced Saturday and Sunday morning editions in the late 1980s. In 2001, the paper bought The Danville News.[1]
Community Newspaper Holdings bought The Daily Item and Ottaway Community Newspapers, a division of Dow Jones & Company.[2]
In May 2015, the newspaper published a letter to the editor calling for the execution of US President Barack Obama. The newspaper later apologized.[3]
References
- ^ Daily Item - About Us, accessed January 14, 2007.
- ^ "CNHI to Acquire 6 Dailies from Dow Jones" Archived 2012-12-09 at archive.today, press release, November 1, 2006, accessed January 14, 2007.
- ^ Lerner, Adam B. (28 May 2015). "Pa. newspaper: Sorry we published letter calling for Obama's execution". POLITICO. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
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