''Lebanon Daily News'' is a local daily newspaper based in

Lebanon, Pennsylvania Lebanon () is a city in and the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,814 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Lebanon is located in the central part of the Lebanon Valley, east of Harrisbu ...

. The main office is located on 718 Poplar Street.“Home - Lebanon Daily News,” http://www.ldnews.com/. It publishes as an afternoon paper Monday through Friday and as a morning paper on Saturday and Sunday.

Prices and circulation

The current newsstand price for the daily and Saturday papers is 75¢ while the Sunday paper is $1.50. Subscribing for eight weeks costs $14.80, while 12 weeks costs $22.21, 24 weeks costs $44.42, and 50 weeks costs $88.84. The paper was one of five in Pennsylvania owned by

MediaNews Group MNG Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado-based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. The company has been growing its portfolio and as of May 2021, owns over 100 newspa ...

, the second largest media company in the U.S., concerned primarily with newspapers. According to MediaNews Group, Lebanon, PA circulated up to 50,000 papers. In 2015, Gannett acquired full ownership of a Pennsylvania joint venture with MediaNews successor

Digital First Media MNG Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado-based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. The company has been growing its portfolio and as of May 2021, owns over 100 newspa ...

Content

The content of ''Lebanon Daily News'' is essentially split up into seven different subjects: news, opinion, sports, business, lifestyles, obituaries, and entertainment. Often the stories are about notable people within the community of Lebanon. In the twentieth century, the LDN contained a dialect column in Pennsylvania German, notably by the newspaper's religion editor, the Rev. Dr. Pierce E. Swope, "Der Kaspar Hufnagel."

Newspaper staff

Interim President: George Troyano
News Director: Randy Parker
Sports Editor: Pat Huggins
Circulation Operations Manager: Joe Clark

Website

The paper is available for viewin
online
The website lists all the current content on its homepage, and all past stories are available for viewing in its archives. A calendar of events in Lebanon is available, as well as real estate, auto listings, classifieds, and jobs. There is an

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feed available, and one can register their mobile phone on the site to get updates about the ''Lebanon Daily News''. Subscribers can also opt to make “E-Edition” available, which makes ''Lebanon Daily News'' viewable on the computer exactly as it appears in print. The Lebanon Daily News website went behind a

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in August 2011, charging print subscribers and non-subscribers varying rates for access beyond a free five articles per month.

''Lebanon Daily News'' in the media

The paper is not very well known because the county of Lebanon is so small and off the radar; however, ''Lebanon Daily News'' has indeed been mentioned in a few instances outside of Lebanon.

''Iron Editor: How to Save Newspapers from Advocacy Journalism''

Michael A. Raffaele, former editor of the ''Lebanon Daily News'', wrote a book called ''Iron Editor: How to Save Newspapers from Advocacy Journalism''. The book is essentially about Raffaele's experiences working for multiple papers, including the ''Lebanon Daily News'', so it gives an insider's viewpoint on the paper.

''Tip of the Spear: A Unique Perspective on Pennsylvania's Political Revolution''

Russ Diamond’s ''Tip of the Spear: A Unique Perspective on Pennsylvania’s Political Revolution '' lists the ''Lebanon Daily News'' as a reference multiple times throughout the book. ''Lebanon Daily News'' published numerous comments on Diamond's status as a politician.Russ Diamond, Tip of the Spear: A Unique Perspective on Pennsylvania's Political Revolution (Raintree Books, 2007).

References

{{Newspapers published in Pennsylvania Daily newspapers published in Pennsylvania Lebanon County, Pennsylvania Publications established in 1872 1872 establishments in Pennsylvania Gannett publications