LNP Media Group owns and publishes '' LNP'', a daily newspaper based in

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, and ''LancasterOnline'', its online affiliate with monthly readership of over one million. ''LNP'' traces its roots to ''The Lancaster Journal'', first published in 1794. LNP Media Group publishes three other local newspapers in Lancaster County: ''The Lititz Record Express'', ''The Ephrata Review'' and '' The Elizabethtown Advocate''. Additionally, LNP Media Group owns and publishes two specialty publications: ''La Voz Lancaster'' (formerly ''La Voz Hispana''), and ''Fly After 5'' (formerly ''Fly Magazine''). LNP Media Group is owned by Steinman Communications, a corporation controlled by descendants of Andrew Jackson Steinman, who purchased the Intelligencer in 1866. In April 2023, Steinman Communications announced plans to donate most of LNP Media Group's holdings to Harrisburg public broadcaster WITF.

Specialty publications

''La Voz Lancaster'' is a bi-monthly publication covering the Hispanic community in Lancaster County. ''Fly After 5'' is a bi-monthly newspaper covering Lancaster County nightlife and entertainment.

Steinman Communications

LNP Media Group is owned by Steinman Communications, a corporation controlled by descendants of Andrew Jackson Steinman, who purchased the ''Intelligencer'' in 1866. The holding company owns Intelligencer Printing, one of the oldest commercial printing houses in the United States; Susquehanna Printing, a contract printer and publisher of

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s; Delmarva Broadcasting Company; real estate investments in Lancaster City; and

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holdings in southern Virginia. In April 2023, Steinman Communications announced plans to donate most of LNP Media Group's holdings to Harrisburg public broadcaster WITF.

''Intelligencer Journal''

First printed in 1794 as the ''Lancaster Journal'', the ''Intelligencer Journal'' was the largest circulation newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the

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that had not changed its name.

''Lancaster New Era''

The ''Lancaster New Era'' was founded in 1877 with the goal of taking the state Republican

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to task. In 1920, ''New Era'' merged with another Republican newspaper, ''The Examiner''. Paul Block Sr. bought the ''New Era-Examiner'' three years later and positioned it to compete with the morning ''Intelligencer'' and afternoon ''New Journal'', both published by the Steinmans. When the venture failed in 1928, Block sold the paper, now named ''New Era'', to the Steinmans, who merged the ''Intell'' and ''Journal'' into the morning ''Intelligencer Journal'' and published ''New Era'' as an afternoon newspaper on every day of the week except Sunday. The Saturday edition was eliminated in 2007 and associated content moved to the Saturday-morning edition of ''Intell''. By 2009, ''New Era'' had the largest circulation of any Pennsylvania newspaper in the afternoon newspaper market. It won the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Sweepstakes Award four years in a row. Its reporting on the West Nickel Mines School shooting in eastern Lancaster County won numerous state and national awards, among them the Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award and the Taylor Award for Fairness from the

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. On 26 June 2009, Lancaster Newspapers published the final afternoon edition of ''New Era'', citing increasing costs and decreasing readership, and merged it with the ''Intelligencer Journal''.

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and other syndicated content previously reserved for the afternoon edition now appear in the ''Journal''.

''The Sunday News''

Established in 1923 as the first local

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in Lancaster County, ''The Sunday News'' was renamed ''Sunday LNP'' in October 2014.

''La Voz Lancaster''

''La Voz Lancaster'' (formerly ''La Voz Hispana'') is a bi-monthly news source for the

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population of Lancaster County.

''The Caucus''

''The Caucus'' is a weekly watchdog investigative paper aimed at Pennsylvania politics.

Editorial stance

The ''Intell'' traditionally retained a

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editorial stance, while the ''New Era'' was reliably

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. For five years after the papers merged, the combined publication ran two distinct editorial pages. In 2014, however, Lancaster Newspapers adopted an

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stance, publishing a single editorial page thereafter.

LNP

Under its current masthead, ''LNP'' was first published in October 2014 with the tagline "Always Lancaster." As of 2016, the

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was quite likely combining journalists from ''The Intelligencer Journal'', ''New Era'' and ''Sunday News''.

''LancasterOnline''

''LancasterOnline'' is a subscription service that provides access to all features in the daily newspaper and a searchable digital archive of all content published in the newspaper's history.

References

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