Post Newspapers Close After 126 Years

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Dan Sewell reports for the Associated Press: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i2lCt8WcnQpR4nh8yjcfEmOMJe2gD8TSGA0G1

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Post said goodbye with its final edition Monday — its presses stilled after 126 years."30", a symbol traditionally used to signal the end of a dispatch, was the front-page headline in the last Cincinnati edition, about an hour before printing of its sister Kentucky Post marked the final run for the daily newspapers.

The Post and its sister Kentucky Post edition have struggled for decades, like other afternoon newspapers, in a climate that has challenged even the nation's most storied dailies. E.W. Scripps Co., based in Cincinnati, decided in July to close The Post newspapers when a joint operating agreement with Gannett Co. expired. Joint operating agreements allow newspapers to combine business operations when one faces financial ruin.

Loyal readers in Cincinnati and the nearby northern Kentucky communities The Post had served lamented its passing."A piece of history has gone. Obviously a voice has gone," said Alicia Reece, an Ohio tourism official and former Post intern who served on the Cincinnati City Council. "On the other hand, they were a foundation for a lot of writers and other people who moved into higher positions. So the legacy lives on."

However, The Kentucky Post has not completely died. Scripps has launched a revamped kypost.com[1] which will continue to bring news to the northern Kentucky area. As the lead story on the site currently reads[2],

=> 1: http://www.kypost.com/ | 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20080105053811/http://www.kypost.com:80/content/news/859/story.aspx?content_id=c0174fce-6ffc-47a8-ac3a-5a37b3707e91

Welcome to Kypost.com, your place for "News in the (859)," plus a whole lot more. Following in the proud tradition of The Kentucky Post newspaper, kypost.com is focused on and dedicated to Northern Kentucky.

I read the post on occasion, and am saddened to see it's passing, but am excited to see the tradition continue on the Internet.

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