History
In 1796, Solomon Meyer created Die York Gazette, a weekly, German-language newspaper, which The York Daily Record credits as its earliest incarnation.
After several years without publication of Die York Gazette, William C. Harris created the English-language Gazette in 1815. Between 1821 and 1891, The Gazette also published a weekly German edition.
The Gazette was taken over by David Small in 1836. Small, who also served as York postmaster, county director of the poor and York’s chief burgess, remained owner of the paper for nearly 50 years.
Prominent businessman Adam Geesey converted The Gazette into a daily publication in 1887. The Gazette became the third York-area newspaper to publish daily.
In 1915, Allen C. Wiest and law partner J.W. Gitt acquired the foundering Gazette,which began Gitt’s 55-year reign as Gazette owner. Under Gitt, the newspaper gained a national reputation for its independent—some considered it leftist—news orientation and editorial positions.
The Gazette purchased The Daily, York’s first daily newspaper, and the York Legal Record in 1915. In 1918, The Gazette is renamed The Gazette and Daily.
After nearly 150 years of continuous publication, the paper shut down in 1970 because of labor problems. Gitt sold the paper's assets to a local group headed by attorney Harold N. Fitzkee Jr. and retired the "The Gazette and Daily" name. The paper soon reopened under a York Daily Record nameplate.
In 1973, The Daily Record was sold to Jimmy D. Scoggins, a veteran newspaperman, who changed the paper's format from tabloid to its current broadsheet form. The Gazette and Daily had become a tab in 1943 because of newsprint shortages during World War II.
Buckner News Alliance purchased the newspaper from Scoggins in 1978 and modernized the paper’s appearance and operations.
MediaNews Group, owner of The York Dispatch, purchased the York Sunday News in 1988. The next year, The Daily Record and The York Dispatch sought government approval for a joint operating agreement, a partial merger. The U.S. Justice Department approved the JOA in 1990, creating the York Newspaper Co. to manage merged production, circulation and advertising departments. The Daily Record and Dispatch newsrooms were not part of the merger and to this day remain under separate ownership.
In 2004, Buckner News Alliance sold the York Daily Record to MediaNews Group, which also owned the York Sunday News the news organization operated as the York Daily Record/Sunday News.
In September 2011, MediaNews Group,parent company of the Daily Record,announced it had appointed John Paton as CEO, and entered into an agreement with Digital First Media. Paton heads Digital First Media which provides management services to MediaNews Group and Journal Register Company publications.
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