The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)
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The Blade, also known as the Toledo Blade, is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications.[2] The newspaper was first published on December 19, 1835.[3]
Overview
The first issue of what was then the Toledo Blade was printed on December 19, 1835. It has been published daily since 1848 and is the oldest continuously run business in Toledo.[4]
David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the Civil War era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Under this name, he wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery, to the Civil War, to temperance. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them. In 1867 Locke bought the Toledo Blade.
The paper dropped "Toledo" from its masthead in 1960.[4]
In 2004 The Blade won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with a series of stories entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths".[5] The story brought to light the story of the Tiger Force, a Vietnam fighting force that brutalized the local population. In 2006, The Blade was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the National Headliner Award, for breaking the scandal in Ohio known as Coingate.
As of 2015, the
As of 2008[update] The Blade had the 83rd largest daily newspaper circulation in the United States.[1]
The Toledo Blade was named for the famed
. Its motto, on the nameplate below the title, is "One of America's Great Newspapers."-
Toledo Blade Newsboys, 1900s
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A Toledo Blade delivery vehicle in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Events
In 2007
Members of several
In May 2014, Block Communications announced plans to close The Blade's production facility, including the
Toledo Free Press lawsuit
In October 2011, The Blade filed a lawsuit against rival publication the
In December 2011, the Free Press responded to the lawsuit and filed a counterclaim, asserting that Blade owners Block Communications were "attempting to exercise prior restraint" on the Free Press and that since the non-compete agreement expired in 2005, the Blade's use of it as a legal weapon in 2011 was "simply as a tool to economically harm" the Free Press and its publisher, and "well beyond the bounds of fair and legal competition."[14]
References
- ^ a b "2008 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ "The Blade ending Wednesday print delivery". WTOL 11. WTOL 11. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ Mildred Benson (January 1, 2003). "With a clue". Metro Times. Detroit.
- ^ a b Janet Romaker (January 1, 2010). "Blade looks to its roots in 2010". The Blade. Toledo, Ohio.
- ^ Toledo Blade newspaper's investigative report Archived June 5, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Zaborney, Mark (September 10, 2015). "(Obituaries:) John Harms (1920 - 2015)". The Blade. Toledo, Ohio. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ Winslow, Ron (2008-04-09). "Toledo Blade's Detrich Resigns Over Digitally Altered Photograph". News Photographer magazine. National Press Photographers Association. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- ^ Royhab, Ron (2008-04-15). "A basic rule: Newspaper photos must tell the truth". The Blade. Toledo, Ohio. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- ^ Kalmes, Justin R. (March 2, 2007). "Blade unions: Talks appear over". Toledo Free Press. The Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
- ^ "Blade, Unions reach a deal to end the lockout". The Bryan Times. May 24, 2007.
- ^ Jon Chavez (May 31, 2014). "The Blade to cut 131 jobs, stop printing in downtown Toledo". The Blade. Toledo, Ohio.
- ^ "Blade's parent company sues ex-manager for contract breach". The Blade. Toledo, Ohio. October 21, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
- ^ Miller, Michael S. (October 28, 2011). "Was it something I said?". Toledo Free Press. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
- ^ "TFP answers Blade lawsuit, files countersuits". Toledo Free Press. December 19, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2011.