''The Post-Star'' is a daily newspaper in
Glens Falls, New York
Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,700 at the 2010 census. The name was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls ref ...
. Its circulation is 9,780. It serves the counties of
Warren,
Washington
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and
Saratoga in New York State including the cities of
Glens Falls and
Saratoga Springs
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. It is the only daily newspaper published in Warren County. It competes with ''
The Saratogian'' of Saratoga Springs and the ''
Times Union'' of Albany for the Saratoga County market.
History
The current ''Post-Star'' newspaper traces its roots to 1904 with the founding of a paper called ''The Morning Post''.
In 1909 the owners of ''The Morning Post'' acquired a competing newspaper called ''The Morning Star'' and merged the two papers into ''The Post-Star''.
The newspaper was sold in 1971 by longtime publisher and major shareholder Arthur Irving Sr. to
Howard Publications.
[(30 December 1970)]
Glen Falls Newspapers Have Been Purchased By Howard Publications, Oceanside, Calif; Carl M. Davidson Has Been Named Publisher
''The Post-Star'', p.1 (paywall)
''The Post-Star'' is currently owned by
Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 77 daily newspapers in 26 states, and more than 350 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by Alfred Wilson Lee and is b ...
out of
Davenport, Iowa. Lee has controlled the paper since February 12, 2002, when it merged with Howard Publications.
On April 20, 2009, the Post-Star won its first
Pulitzer Prize, for the editorial work of Mark Mahoney.
For a time, the ''Post-Star'' maintained two distinctly different online presences. PostStar.net was an all-inclusive, subscription-based offering; Poststar.com offers the reader a few free articles per month, requiring a subscription beyond that. As of April 2007, PostStar.net ceased operation.
References
External links
Poststar.com
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Daily newspapers published in New York (state)
Lee Enterprises publications
Glens Falls, New York