''The Advocate'' is the local daily newspaper of
Newark, Ohio
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, serving the general
Licking County region. It has been part of the
Gannett family of newspapers and periodicals since 2000.
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''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
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. In March 1882, the ''Advocate'' was sold to John A. Caldwell and soon became a daily newspaper.
Today, the ''Advocate'' occupies a 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 nd ed. pp. 413-438. Available at Internet Archive. Archived fro
the original.
References
External links
*
Official digital archive
at Newspapers.com
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Newark, Ohio
Newspapers published in Ohio
Newspapers established in 1820
Gannett publications
1820 establishments in Ohio
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