LNP Media Group
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Genre | Newspapers |
| Founded | 1794 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Lancaster County |
| Website | LancasterOnline.com |
LNP Media Group owns and publishes LNP, a daily newspaper in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and LancasterOnline, its online affiliate with monthly readership of over 1 million. First published in October 2014, LNP traces its roots to one of the oldest newspapers in the U.S., The Lancaster Journal that dates back to 1794.[1]
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 three specialty publications: Lancaster Farming, La Voz Lancaster, formerly La Voz Hispana, and Fly After 5, formerly Fly Magazine. Lancaster Farming is a leading farm newspaper for the mid-Atlantic region with paid circulation of over 60,000 in Pennsylvania and fifteen other states.[2] La Voz Lancaster is a bi-monthly publication covering the Hispanic community in Lancaster County.[3] Fly After 5 is a bi-monthly newspaper covering news and features on Lancaster County nightlife and entertainment including live music, craft beer and dining.[4]
LNP Media Group is owned by Steinman Communications, which also holds Intelligencer Printing (one of the oldest commercial printing houses in the US), Susquehanna Printing (a printing facility in Ephrata which publishes weekly newspapers and does other contract printing), Delmarva Broadcasting Company (radio stations in Delaware and Maryland) and real estate holdings in Lancaster City and energy holdings in southern Virginia.[5] They joined with High Enterprises and Fulton Bank in jointly developing the Lancaster Convention Center and they operate the Pressroom Restaurant.[6] Steinman Enterprises is a corporation, closely held by descendants of Andrew Jackson Steinman, who purchased the Intelligencer in 1866.[7]
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 United States of America that had not changed its name.[citation needed]
Lancaster New Era
The Lancaster New Era was founded in 1877 with the goal of taking the state Republican machine to task.[clarification needed] 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.[citation needed]
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.[when?] 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 Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
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.[8] Columns, comics and other syndicated content previously reserved for the afternoon edition now appear in the Journal.[citation needed]
Sunday News
Established in 1923 as the first local Sunday newspaper in Lancaster County, Sunday News was renamed Sunday LNP in October 2014.[1]
La Voz Lancaster
Type: Spanish-language
La Voz Lancaster changed its name from La Voz Hispana in August 2016. Translated as The Lancaster Voice, it’s a bi-monthly news source for the Spanish-speaking publication that produces local stories as well as issues and events of Hispanic community in Lancaster County. Frequent features include: Arts and Culture, Food and Drink, Health and Living, Profiles and Interviews, and Community News.[3]
Editorial stance
For many years, the Intell retained a center-left editorial stance, while the New Era was reliably conservative. This continued long after the Steinmans bought the New Era. As a legacy of this, for five years after the papers merged, it ran two editorial pages—one liberal, one conservative. However, on September 11, 2014, Lancaster Newspapers announced it would adopt an independent editorial stance and would no longer run two distinct editorial pages.[9]
LNP
Under its current masthead, LNP was first published in October 2014, with the tagline Always Lancaster.[1] The current newsroom includes journalists from The Intelligencer Journal, New Era and Sunday News. The Intelligencer Journal and New Era merged in 2009. Even though Sunday News joined the combined newsroom in 2012, the Sunday edition continued to be published under the same masthead until the rebranding in October 2014. The rebranding was aimed at representing and embracing the history of Lancaster County, the brand and the audience.[1] The slogan also alludes to the abbreviation that was used to refer to "Lancaster Newspapers" for much of the latter part of the 20th century. The paper was redesigned to include a more visually-appealing format and more user-friendly sections and pages.
Lancaster Online
LancasterOnline is LNP's digital component. It is a subscription-only service that provides access to all features in the daily newspaper. In 2019, LNP launched its digital archives, a searchable database providing access to all content published in the newspaper's history.
References
- ^ a b c d "About Us". LancasterOnline. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ "About Us". Lancaster Farming. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ a b "La Voz Hispana". La Voz Hispana. LNP Media Group. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ "Fly After 5". Fly After 5. LNP Media Group. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ "Our brands - Steinman Communications". Steinman Communications. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ Writer, JOE HAINTHALER | Staff. "Martin: It's crunch time for Lancaster County Convention Center". Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ Brubaker, John H (1984). The Steinmans of Lancaster: A Family and its Enterprises. Steinman Enterprises. ISBN 0-9613782-0-4.
- ^ Writer, JACK BRUBAKER Staff. "A new beginning for Lancaster New Era". Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ "Lancaster Newspapers announces shift in opinion policy". LancasterOnline. LNP Media Group. Retrieved 2016-08-22.