The Pantagraph

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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Lee Enterprises
Publisher Richard Johnston
Editor Mark Pickering
Founded 1837
Headquarters 301 W. Washington St.
Bloomington, IL 61701
United States
Circulation 46,639 Daily
50,486 Sunday[1]
Official website Pantagraph.com

The Pantagraph is a daily newspaper that serves Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, along with 60 communities and eight counties in the Central Illinois area. Its headquarters are in Bloomington and is owned by Lee Enterprises. The newspaper has an estimated 107,000 daily readers. The name is derived from the Greek words "panta" and "grapho", which has a combined meaning of "write all things."[2]

The paper was purchased by Pulitzer in 1999; Lee Enterprises bought Pulitzer in 2005.

Bloomington businessman Jesse W. Fell founded the newspaper on January 14, 1837, making it the oldest-running business in McLean County. It was originally called The Bloomington Observer and McLean County Advocate. Through the years, the newspaper went through several name changes, such as The Whig, The Intelligencer, The Daily Pantagraph and The Pantagraph in 1985, finally shortened to just Pantagraph in 2006, changing back to The Pantagraph in 2008.[3][4]

The Pantagraph is a news partner of WEEK-TV, which is situated in East Peoria, Illinois.[5]

On October 26, 2008, The Pantagraph, previously known to swing in favor of Republicans, endorsed Barack Obama for President.[6]

References

  1. ^ http://www.lee.net/newspapers/ retrieved on November 29, 2007.
  2. ^ http://www.pantagraph.com/info/about.php, retrieved on November 29, 2007.
  3. ^ http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy930348.html, retrieved on November 29, 2007.
  4. ^ http://www.lee.net/walk/visit/bloomington.htm, retrieved on November 29, 2007.
  5. ^ http://www.week.com/community/Pantagraph, retrieved on November 29, 2007.
  6. ^ Pantagraph endorses Obama

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