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''The Morning Call'' is a daily newspaper based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = ''The Morning Call'' website ) 〕 The newspaper is owned by Tribune Publishing, whose other publications include the ''Chicago Tribune'', ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''Baltimore Sun''. ''The Morning Call'' serves a nine-county region of eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey and is the largest circulation newspaper of the Lehigh Valley, the third most populous region of Pennsylvania. It once ranked among the nation's top 100 largest-circulation newspapers, with circulation of 109,000 daily readers and 148,000 Sunday readers. As of October 2010, circulation is now 94,859 daily readers and 121,168 Sunday readers. ==History== ''The Morning Call'' traces its beginnings to May 26, 1883, when Samuel S. Woolever started ''The Critic'', a Saturday evening weekly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = ''Morning Call'' website )〕 ''The Critic'' became a morning newspaper in late 1883, switched to a Sunday weekly a year later and resumed daily publication as the ''Daily Morning Critic'' in 1887. Woolever sold the ''Critic'' to a group of partners in 1894, and on January 1 of the following year, the paper appeared under the name ''The Morning Call'' for the first time. David A. Miller, a reporter for the ''Critic'', and his brother Samuel began investing in the newspaper around this time. By 1904, the two brothers had bought out the last of the original partners.〔 In 1906, the ''Call'' joined the Associated Press, adding national and world news coverage to its pages. The early part of the century was a lively era for newspaper publishing. Besides the ''Call'', Allentown's daily papers included the ''Daily City Item'', ''Allentown Democrat'' and ''Chronicle and News'', an evening newspaper that dated to 1870. Within a little more than a decade, the local newspaper scene would change considerably.〔 In 1920, Harry C. Trexler, the region’s top industrialist, put together an investors group to acquire ''The Call''. Through a series of mergers, Allentown Call Publishing Co. was formed, leaving the ''Chronicle and News'' as the ''Calls primary rival. The next year, 1921, the newspaper began publishing a Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Morning Call''.〔〔 After Trexler's death in 1933, David Miller, who still held a financial interest in the paper, resumed control, along with two other partners. In 1935, the ''Call'' took over the ''Chronicle and News''. Three years later, in 1938, the Sunday edition was renamed the ''Sunday Call-Chronicle'', and the following year, the ''Chronicle and News'' became ''The Evening Chronicle''.〔 The Miller family continued to oversee the newspapers for the next four decades. Following David Miller's death in 1958, his sons, Donald P. and Samuel W., succeeded him as publishers. Samuel died in 1967, and soon afterwards, Donald’s son, Edward D. Miller, joined him in running the papers. However, the ''Chronicle'' was discontinued in 1980, its 90th year, and Edward left the business the following year.〔 Call-Chronicle Newspapers, Inc., was sold in 1984 to the Times Mirror Company, one of the country's top five newspaper companies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/33/The-Times-Mirror-Company.html )〕 In 2000, the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror and with it, ''The Morning Call''.〔 The newspaper teams with the polling institute of Muhlenberg College to publish its surveys of preferences and trends among Pennsylvanians.〔(Muhlenberg College polling site. ) Example: (2008 U.S. presidential tracking poll. )〕 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 Morning Call」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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