The ''Palladium-Item'' is the daily morning newspaper for
Richmond, Indiana
Richmond is a city in eastern Wayne County, Indiana. Bordering the state of Ohio, it is the county seat of Wayne County and is part of the Dayton, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 36,812. Situa ...
, and surrounding areas. The paper is a merger of two older papers, the ''Richmond Palladium'' and the ''Richmond Item'', and traces its history back to 1831, making it the oldest continuous business in Richmond.
The company was sold in 1976 to the
Gannett Company
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.[Mike Lopresti
Mike Lopresti (born 1953) is an American sportswriter for the Gannett News Service.
Lopresti graduated from Ball State University in 1975 and worked for Gannett's Palladium-Item
The ''Palladium-Item'' is the daily morning newspaper for Richmond, ...]
, who is now a sports columnist for the
Gannett News Service and is published in many of their papers.
Naming
The paper's website explains the origin of "Palladium" as referring to "
Pallas Athena, whose warlike nature was provoked by injustice and interference with constructive, peaceful living. Pallas Athena was the Goddess of Wisdom and considered a symbol of protection," and that
Palladium
Palladium is a chemical element with the symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself na ...
denotes "the protection of the rights of people, is believed to have come from Greek history where theft of a statue of Pallas Athena from ancient
Troy
Troy ( el, Τροία and Latin: Troia, Hittite language, Hittite: 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 ''Truwiša'') or Ilion ( el, Ίλιον and Latin: Ilium, Hittite language, Hittite: 𒃾𒇻𒊭 ''Wiluša'') was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in prese ...
is said to have resulted in Troy's destruction."
References
External links
Palladium-Item websiteOfficial mobile website
Newspapers published in Indiana
Gannett publications
Richmond, Indiana
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