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''The Plain Dealer'' is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It has the largest circulation of any Ohio newspaper and was a top 20 newspaper for Sunday circulation in the United States as of March 2013.〔(Top 25 U.S. Newspapers for March 2013 )〕 As of October 2013, ''The Plain Dealer'' had more than 537,000 daily readers and 856,000 readers on Sunday.〔(The Plain Dealer |Northeast Ohio Media Group )〕 ''The Plain Dealers media market, the Cleveland-Akron DMA (Designated Market Area), is one of the Top 20 markets in the United States. With a population of 3.8 million people, it is the fourth-largest market in the Midwest, and Ohio's largest media market.〔(Cleveland DMA |Northeast Ohio Media Group )〕 In April 2013 ''The Plain Dealer '' announced it would reduce home delivery to four days a week, including Sunday.〔(Northeast Ohio Media Group to launch in summer: Press Release | cleveland.com )〕 This went into effect on August 5, 2013. A daily version of ''The Plain Dealer'' is available electronically as well as in print at stores and newsstands. ==History and ownership== The newspaper was established in 1842, less than 50 years after Moses Cleaveland landed on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in The Flats, and is currently owned by Advance Publications (Newhouse Newspapers).〔Columbia Journalism Review (2005). () Who Owns What. Retrieved June 5, 2006.〕 The Plain Dealer Publishing Company is under the direction of Virginia Wang (general manager). The paper employs over 700 people. The newspaper was sold on March 1, 1967, to S.I. Newhouse's newspaper chain, and has been under the control of the Newhouse family ever since.〔Cleveland: Confused City on a See-saw (Electronic Edition). () Philip W. Porter, 1976. Pages 234–235.〕 The paper was previously held by the trusts of the Holden estate, and operated as The Plain Dealer Publishing Company, part of the Forest City Publishing Company, which also published the ''Cleveland News'' until its purchase and subsequent closing by its major competitor, the ''Cleveland Press'', owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, in 1960.〔Cleveland: Confused City on a See-saw (Electronic Edition). () Philip W. Porter, 1976. Page 10.〕 On December 18, 2005, ''The Plain Dealer'' ceased publication of its weekly ''Sunday Magazine'', which had been published uninterrupted for over 85 years.〔"The Plain Dealer kills off Sunday Magazine", ''Editor and Publisher'', December 2005.〕 The demise of the paper's ''Sunday Magazine'' was attributed to the high cost of newsprint and declining revenue, and the PD reassigned the editors, designers and reporters to other areas of the newspaper. It also assured readers that the stories that would formerly have appeared in the Sunday Magazine would be integrated into other areas of the paper. On the morning of Wednesday, July 31, 2013, nearly a third of the newsroom staff was eliminated through layoffs and voluntary resignations. The ''Plain Dealers corporate owner, New York-based Advance Publications Inc., a private company run by the heirs of S.I. Newhouse, under a strategy to focus more on online news delivery, had been cutting staff and publication schedules. Previously, in December 2012, under an agreement with the Newspaper Guild, nearly two dozen union newsroom staff voluntarily accepted severance packages. The July round of layoffs led to accusations by the Guild that management had misled the union by cutting more employees than had been agreed upon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Plain Dealer executes newsroom layoffs as era of daily delivery nears end )〕 On August 5, 2013, the Northeast Ohio Media Group launched and The Plain Dealer Publishing Company was formed. Northeast Ohio Media Group operates cleveland.com and Sun News and is responsible for all multimedia ad sales and marketing for ''The Plain Dealer'', ''Sun News'' and cleveland.com. It also provides content to ''The Plain Dealer'', cleveland.com and ''Sun News''. The Plain Dealer Publishing Company provides content and publishes in print seven days a week. The company also provides production, distribution, finance, information technology, accounting and other support services for the Plain Dealer Publishing Co. and Northeast Ohio Media Group. 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 Plain Dealer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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