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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$75.0M
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Born in controversy, tempered by adversity, empowered by the First Amendment, melded by mergers, conscious of the public trust and formed of intertwining DNA strands of journalism, business and community service, The Patriot-News today is the sum of what has gone before and the promise of what is to come. The official birth of The Patriot-News is celebrated as March 4, 1854, but its history goes back to December 1820 and a weekly, The Pennsylvania Intelligencer. Between 1820 and 1854, nearly a dozen more newspapers appeared on the scene, including The Pennsylvania Reporter, The Pennsylvania Reporter and Mechanics Journal, The Democratic Herald, the Home Journal, The Citizens' Soldier, The Reporter and Democratic Herald, the Democratic State Journal, The State Capital Gazette, The Keystone and the Morning Herald and Harrisburg Daily. The newspapers consolidated and/or folded until 1854, when the Democratic Union was being published by George M. Lauman. According to the "Dauphin County Historical Atlas of 1875," the Democratic Union was "suspected of undue devotion to the personal aspirations of Simon Cameron," the political powerhouse who had been elected U.S. senator to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of James Buchanan after Buchanan was appointed U.S. secretary of state in 1845. Buchanan was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 1852 and served as minister to Great Britain 1853-56. He was president 1857-61. Cameron served as U.S. senator...

Number of Employees 749
Contact Information

812 Market St

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101

www.patriot-new...

1 717 255 8100

NAICS Code Newspaper Publishers: 511110

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  • The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa., Ellen Lyon column.

    - 2004-10-29

    By Ellen Lyon, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 29--WHAT WILL $200 GET YOU AT THE SHOPPES AT SUSQUEHANNA MARKETPLACE? My editors never knew I could be so obliging. On Wednesday, they gave me $200 and told me...

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  • The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa., Trade Talk Column.

    - 2003-12-17

    The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 17--SAMANTHA ELLIOTT-KREPPS has joined Pavone, a Harrisburg marketing firm, as an agency public relations strategist. Elliott-Krepps served for nearly six years under the Ridge and Schweiker administrations as a press...

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  • The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa., Trade Talk Column.

    - 2003-07-22

    The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 22--Wes Gilreath of Carlisle has been promoted to regional sales manager for SHS. Gilreath joined SHS in 2002 as an ac count executive and has developed a number of partnerships...

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  • The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa., Business Briefcase Column.

    - 2003-01-29

    The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 29--STERLING FINANCIAL CORP. on Tuesday reported double-digit increases in net profits for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31. For the quarter, net profits were a record $6.8 million, up 28.6...

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  • The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa., Bill Sulon Column.

    - 2003-01-05

    By Bill Sulon, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 5--Combine a long-held fear of flying with the instructor's preflight instructions, and you have the recipe for a bad time, or at least a stinky mess. The...

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