The Cincinnati Post
The Cincinnati Post was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. In Northern Kentucky, it was bundled inside a local edition called The Kentucky Post.
Type
Defunct
Mike Philipps
January 3, 1881
English
December 31, 2007
125 E. Court St.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
United States
Cincinnati, Ohio
United States
25,000 (as of 2007)[3]
news.cincypost.com at the Wayback Machine (archived October 22, 2007)
The Post was a founding publication and onetime flagship of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, a division of the E. W. Scripps Company. For much of its history, the Post was the most widely read paper in the Cincinnati market. Its readership was concentrated on the West Side of Cincinnati, as well as in Northern Kentucky, where it was considered the newspaper of record.[4]
The Post began publishing in 1881 and launched its Northern Kentucky edition in 1890. It acquired The Cincinnati Times-Star in 1958. The Post ceased publication at the end of 2007, after 30 years in a joint operating agreement with The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Content[edit]
The Post was known throughout its history for investigative journalism and focus on local coverage,[5][6] characteristics common to Scripps papers. As one of the first successful penny presses outside the East Coast,[7] the Post was written primarily for blue collar laborers who had no time to read a newspaper in the morning.[8][9] Its articles were written to be easily readable.[7] In its heyday, the paper consistently championed good governance and labor rights.[10]
Though the Post considered itself politically independent, it historically tended to support progressive politicians relative to the Times-Star and Enquirer.[6][10][11] The Post's editorial position became uniformly conservative in the years following its merger with the Times-Star, according to Stevens (1969).[12] By the early 1990s, the paper's political stance had become "a grumpily conservative sigh of resentment" according to journalist William Greider.[8]
Schedule[edit]
The Post published regular editions on weekday afternoons and a Weekender edition on Saturday mornings. In keeping with Scripps tradition, the Post did not publish on Sundays for most of its history.[10][13][14] However, it did publish a Sunday edition from November 30, 1924, to December 18, 1932.[6] The Post published on schedule from its founding as The Penny Paper in 1881 until 1967.[12] From October 30 to November 2, 1967, 300 Newspaper Guild members struck along with Pressmen and Stereotypers, while Printers were locked out.[15]
Online presence[edit]
On November 1, 1996, the Post launched its website, @The Post. Due to a joint operating agreement with the Enquirer, it launched concurrently with the Enquirer's site, Enquirer.com. A shared website, GoCincinnati!,[84] displayed classified advertising and offered dial-up Internet access subscriptions. Local access numbers were available in cities throughout the country through a network of Gannett publications.[85] Both papers' home pages moved to a more memorable domain, Cincinnati.com, on November 1, 1998.[86] The new brand encompassed about 300 local commercial sites and some community organizations.[87]
The day after the Post's closure, Scripps launched KYPost.com as a Northern Kentucky news website to compete with Enquirer sister site NKY.com. A dedicated staff embedded in WCPO-TV's newsroom supplemented content from WCPO.com.[88] In 2009, the website had two staff members plus interns.[89] In 2013, KYPost.com began redirecting visitors to WCPO.com.[90]
Archives of Post articles can be found in online subscription databases. NewsBank contains Cincinnati Post and Kentucky Post articles from 1882 to 2007.[91][92] Until its closure, HighBeam Research contained 313,031 Cincinnati Post articles from 1996 to 2007.[93]