''The Elizabethtown Advocate'' was a weekly newspaper serving

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Betzischteddel'') is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located southeast of Harrisburg, the state capital. Small factories existed at the turn of the 20th century when the popu ...

, from 2010 to 2021. The paper grew from having approximately 600 copies being produced weekly in 2011 2] to a paid circulation of 5,982 as of 2017 before ceasing publication at the end of 2021. The Advocate was founded in 2010 by veteran

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journalist Dan Robrish. Robrish worked for the AP for 11 1/2 years. Before working for the Associated Press, Robrish was employed by the

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, the Journal of New Ulm in

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and the Ely Daily Times in

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. The Advocate was a "one-man" newspaper for 7 years with Robrish as the sole

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, and

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. The Advocate superseded the Elizabethtown Chronicle which folded after 140 years in 2009. The Chronicle folded when its parent company, the Journal-Register, filed for

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. The Advocate was acquired by the

LNP Media Group LNP Media Group owns and publishes '' LNP'', a daily newspaper based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and ''LancasterOnline'', its online affiliate with monthly readership of over one million. ''LNP'' traces its roots to ''The Lancaster Journal ...

, a subsidiary of the Steinman Communications, in 2017. LNP also publishes Lancaster County Weeklies, including The Ephrata Review and The Lititz Record.

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