The Advocate is the local daily newspaper of Newark, Ohio, serving the general Licking County region. It has been part of the Gannett family of newspapers and periodicals since 2000.[1]
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Gannett |
| Founder(s) | Benjamin Briggs |
| Founded | 1820 |
| Language | English |
| City | Newark, Ohio |
| Country | United States |
| ISSN | 0740-2120 |
| OCLC number | 9898663 |
| Website | www |
The Advocate is the single remaining daily newspaper in Newark. Other early Newark newspapers (all now defunct) included the Newark Weekly American, Newark Leader, and Newark American Tribune.
In 1820, a 22-year-old local resident named Benjamin Briggs printed the first issue in a wooden stilt shanty over a frog pond on the west side of what is now Newark's downtown square. Briggs, beset with start-up problems, could only publish three issues in his first five months in business. However, within a year, he was publishing a four-page, four-column paper with the first page devoted to foreign news composed mostly of letters from other papers. During the middle of the century, the paper was a weekly edition, and served as an important regional news source during the American Civil War. In March 1882, the Advocate was sold to John A. Caldwell and soon became a daily newspaper.
Today, the Advocate occupies a 48,000-square-foot (4,500 m2) complex with about 200 employees. It is headquartered at 22 N. First Street in downtown Newark.
Further reading
- Hansen, James L. "Research in Newspapers" (Chapter 12). The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1997 [2nd ed.], pp. 413-438. Available at Internet Archive. Archived from the original.
