The ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American

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published daily except Sunday in

Xenia, Ohio Xenia ( ) is a city in southwestern Ohio and the county seat of Greene County, Ohio, United States. It is east of Dayton and is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Miami Valley region. The name comes from the Gree ...

. It is owned by AIM Media based in McAllen, Texas. It covers the city of Xenia and several nearby communities in Greene County, including Bellbrook, Cedarville, Clifton, Jamestown and Wilberforce.

History

The first edition of the ''Gazette'' was a

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begun in Xenia in 1868. It converted to daily publication as the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' in November 1881. In 1975, the staff of the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting, in recognition of their coverage of the F5 tornado that decimated Xenia during the

1974 Super Outbreak The 1974 Super Outbreak was the second-largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the 2011 Super Outbreak. It was also the most violent tornado outbreak ever recorded, with 30 F4/F5 tornadoes confirmed. From Apri ...

, killing 34 residents and heavily damaging or destroying about half the buildings in the city. More recently, the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' was the flagship newspaper of the Greene County Dailies division of

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, which also included the '' Fairborn Daily Herald'' and the daily (now weekly) ''Beavercreek News-Current''. Brown purchased the Greene County papers from

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, a

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publisher, in 1998. Brown, a

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-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as

Ohio Community Media Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily newspaper, daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton, Ohio, Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelp ...

in 2010. The company, including the ''Xenia Daily Gazette'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by

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-based Versa Capital Management. In March 2019, delivery of the print Beavercreek News-Current ceased. The website stopped being updated in April and became inaccessible in May. It appears the Xenia Daily Gazette has suffered the same fate.

References

External links

''Xenia Daily Gazette'' website

Ohio Community Media
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