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''The Cincinnati Enquirer'', a daily morning newspaper, is the highest-circulation print publication in Greater Cincinnati (Ohio) and Northern Kentucky. (The ''Enquirer'' publishes a Northern Kentucky edition under the title ''The Kentucky Enquirer'' with a front section and remade Local section. The front page is remade from the Ohio edition, although it may contain similar elements.) The ''Enquirer'' is a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper and publishes a variety of print and electronic media, including separate editions for Ohio and Kentucky, 16 Community Press weekly newspapers, 10 ''Community Recorder'' weekly newspapers, ''OurTown'' magazine, the cincinnati.com network of Web sites, and free-distribution advertising publications in the employment, automotive, real estate, rental, health care and shopping segments. Cincinnati.Com is ''The Enquirer''s flagship electronic product, and encompasses 50 local and national information and advertising Web products. ==Early history== ''The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer'' was first published April 10, 1841. ''The Enquirer'' became one of the first newspapers in the United States to publish a Sunday edition beginning on April 20, 1848. In at least the decade of the 1850s, ''The Enquirer'' also published a weekly digest edition for regional farmers. From before the Civil War to 1881, ''The Enquirer'' was owned by Washington McLean, a Copperhead whose editorial policies led to the suppression of the paper by the United States government during the Civil War. After the war, McLean pursued an anti-Republican stance. One of his star writers was Lafcadio Hearn, who wrote for the paper from 1872 to 1875. James W. Faulkner started was a newspaperman from the Enquirer who became the political correspondent for the paper covering the Ohio State Legislature and Statehouse from 1887 until his death. The ''Faulkner Letter'' was a well-known column often carried in regional newspapers. From 1881 to his death in 1916, it was run by his son, John Roll McLean. Having little faith in his only child, Ned, John Roll McLean put the ''Enquirer'' and another paper he owned, ''The Washington Post'', in trust with a Washington, D.C. bank as trustee. Ned successfully broke the trust regarding ''The Post'', an action that led to its bankruptcy and eventual sale to Eugene Meyer in 1933. ''The Enquirer'', however, continued to be held in trust until 1952. During the 1930s and 1940s ''The Enquirer'' was widely regarded among newspapers for its innovative and distinctive typography. In 1952, the bank decided to sell to Charles Phelps Taft, the owner of the ''Cincinnati Times-Star'' and a member of the presidential Taft family, but the employees of the paper pooled their assets and obtained loans to outbid him. However, they lacked sufficient capital and managerial expertise to run the paper. Beset by financial problems and internal strife, the paper was sold to The E. W. Scripps Company in 1956, the owner of ''The Cincinnati Post''. Scripps held the paper until 1968 when it was forced to sell after the government successfully brought an anti-trust action. American Financial, a company controlled by Cincinnati millionaire Carl Lindner bought the paper, selling it to another Lindner company, Combined Communications, in 1969. Combined Communications, based in Phoenix, merged with Gannett in 1979. In 1977, the paper entered into a joint operating agreement with the other daily in Cincinnati, the afternoon ''Cincinnati Post''. Under the agreement, ''The Enquirer'' handled all business functions of both papers, including printing, distribution, and selling advertising. In January 2004, ''The Enquirer'' informed the ''Post'' it would not be renewing the agreement upon its expiration December 31, 2007. This led to the closure of the ''Post'', which left ''The Enquirer'' as the only daily newspaper in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, a region that is home to more than 30 local weekly newspapers and several magazines and tabloids. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Cincinnati Enquirer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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