{{Short description|Defunct afternoon daily newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Cincinnati Post<br />The Kentucky Post | image = The Cincinnati Post, Farewell Edition.jpg | image_border = yes | caption = "Farewell Edition" (last issue) of the ''Post'' | type = Defunct | format = Berliner | founded = January 3, 1881 | ceased_publication = December 31, 2007 | publishing_city = Cincinnati, Ohio | publishing_country = United States | price = 50 cents | owners = Scripps-Howard Newspapers | publisher = | editor = Mike Philipps | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | staff_writers = 52<ref name="Enquirer Rutledge">{{cite news|title=A voice is stilled|first=Mike|last=Rutledge|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=December 30, 2007|url=http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071230/NEWS01/712300308}}</ref><ref name="NYT Driehaus">{{cite news|title=In Cincinnati, a 126-Year-Old Paper Goes to Press for the Last Time|first=Bob|last=Driehaus|work=The New York Times|date=December 31, 2007|access-date=November 18, 2014|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/media/31cincinnati.html}}</ref> | language = English | political_position = | circulation = 25,000 | circulation_date = 2007 | circulation_ref = <ref name="Post Paeth" /> | headquarters = 125 E. Court St.<br />Cincinnati, Ohio 45202<br />United States | oclc = 51645668 | ISSN = | website = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022051151/http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage |date=October 22, 2007 |title=news.cincypost.com }} }}
'''''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'''''.
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.<ref>{{cite web|title=In re: Theodore Steward/City of Walton|publisher=Office of the Attorney General of Kentucky|first1=A. B. III|last1=Chandler|first2=Thomas R.|last2=Emerson|date=March 24, 1997|access-date=November 28, 2014|url=http://ag.ky.gov/civil/orom/1997/97omd049.htm}}</ref>
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== The ''Post'' was known throughout its history for investigative journalism and focus on local coverage,<ref name="USAToday Sewell">{{cite news|title=Post newspapers close after 126 years|first=Dan|last=Sewell|work=USA Today|agency=Associated Press |date=December 31, 2007|url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2007-12-31-4115987391_x.htm}}</ref><ref name="ENKY Philipps" /> characteristics common to Scripps papers. As one of the first successful penny presses outside the East Coast,{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=207}} the ''Post'' was written primarily for blue collar laborers who had no time to read a newspaper in the morning.<ref name="Greider">{{cite book|title=Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy|first=William|last=Greider|author-link=William Greider|location=New York City|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1992|pages=291–293|isbn=0-671-68891-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7JU3Xk3NTgC&pg=PA291}}</ref><ref name="Post Crowley">{{cite news|title=Post can't be forgotten|first=Pat|last=Crowley|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=December 30, 2007|access-date=November 29, 2014|url=http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20071230/COL07/712300400/Post-can-t-forgotten}}</ref> Its articles were written to be easily readable.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=207}} In its heyday, the paper consistently championed good governance and labor rights.<ref name="CityBeat Osborne" />
Though the ''Post'' considered itself politically independent, it historically tended to support progressive politicians relative to the ''Times-Star'' and ''Enquirer''.<ref name="ENKY Philipps">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Kentucky Post|first=Mike|last=Philipps|encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky|location=Lexington, Kentucky|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|date=October 29, 2009|pages=513–515|isbn=978-0-8131-2565-7|via=Issuu|url=http://issuu.com/cincinnati/docs/nky-k}}</ref><ref name="CityBeat Osborne" /><ref name="Enquirer Rutledge little" /> The ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s editorial position became uniformly conservative in the years following its merger with the ''Times-Star'', according to Stevens (1969).{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=221}} By the early 1990s, the paper's political stance had become "a grumpily conservative sigh of resentment" according to journalist William Greider.<ref name="Greider" />
==Schedule== 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.<ref name="CityBeat Osborne" /><ref name="EWS subsidiary">{{cite web|title=The Cincinnati Post, The Kentucky Post|publisher=E. W. Scripps Company|url=http://scripps.com/newspaper/newspaper-cincinnati-post.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020170120/http://scripps.com/newspaper/newspaper-cincinnati-post.html|archive-date=October 20, 2006}}</ref><ref name="CityBeat Moores">{{cite news|title=Cover Story: Why The Post Mattered|first=Lew|last=Moores|work=Cincinnati CityBeat|date=February 21, 2007|access-date=November 17, 2014|url=http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-2263-cover_story_why_the_post_mattered.html}}</ref> However, it did publish a Sunday edition from November 30, 1924, to December 18, 1932.<ref name="ENKY Philipps" /> The ''Post'' published on schedule from its founding as ''The Penny Paper'' in 1881 until 1967.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=221}} From October 30 to November 2, 1967, 300 Newspaper Guild members struck along with Pressmen and Stereotypers, while Printers were locked out.<ref>{{cite conference|title=Collective Bargaining|conference=Thirty-fourth Annual ANG Convention|publisher=American Newspaper Guild|location=Ottawa, Ontario|date=July 24–28, 1967|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0FboAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
==History==
===Early years=== thumb|left|''The Penny Paper'' on May 16, 1881.
The ''Cincinnati Post'' began on January 3, 1881, as ''The Penny Paper'',<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85035986/ About The penny paper. (Cincinnati Ohio) 1881–1882]</ref> published from a second floor office at Vine and Longworth streets. The publishers, Walter E. Wellman and his brother Frank,<ref>Scripps (1926) and Philipps (2009) give the name of Walter Wellman's brother as Albert, but most sources, including Stevens (1969), give his name as Frank E. Wellman.</ref> hoped to emulate the success of the Cleveland ''Penny Press''.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=207}} By March, they ran out of funds and took an investment from James E. Scripps and half-brother Edward Willis Scripps, who ran the ''Penny Press''.{{sfn|Scripps|1926|p=161}} They used the funds to purchase a press and move the paper to larger facility on Home Street.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=208}} In October, Walter Wellman was framed for blackmail in retaliation for exposés of policy racketeers and the police.<ref name="Enquirer victim">{{cite news|title=Penny Paper: It Falls a Victim to the Cunning of Detectives, And Its Editors Arrested on the Charge of Black-Mail|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=October 8, 1881|volume=39|issue=281|page=4|id={{ProQuest|888480104}}}}</ref> Wellman fled to Kentucky, where he was unlikely to face extradition, and left the Scripps brothers in charge of operations at "the blackmailing sheet".{{sfn|Scripps|1926|p=162}}{{sfn|McRae|1924|p=39}}
''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' called ''The Penny Paper'' "a fair success" in its first year, estimating the upstart's circulation at about 6,000, fifth in a market served by seven papers in English and five in German.<ref name="Enquirer word">{{cite news|title=A Word About the Enquirer|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=October 20, 1881|volume=39|issue=293|page=4|id={{ProQuest|888489269}}}}</ref><ref name="Winternitz">{{cite book|title=Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati|edition=7th|first1=Felix|last1=Winternitz|first2=Sacha DeVroomen|last2=Bellman|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|date=November 18, 2008|access-date=August 1, 2013|page=381|issn=1527-1188|isbn=978-0-7627-4180-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4e7XLGfekD8C&pg=PA352}}</ref> E. W. Scripps estimated daily circulation at 7,000 in the city and 6,000 in the countryside, before countryside distribution was discontinued to save money.{{sfn|Scripps|1926|p=175}}
With an editorial staff that leaned Republican and included a former minister,{{sfn|Scripps|1926|pp=177–178}} ''The Penny Paper'' was seen as "the spokesman and the organ of the religious element of the community", according to Scripps.{{sfn|Scripps|1926|p=181}} When in 1882 the "Boy Preacher" Rev. Thomas Harrison held 13 weeks of camp meetings in Cincinnati, "the boy preacher and the little ''Penny [Paper]<!-- originally "Post", probably an oversight -->'' were vying<!-- originally "vieing" --> with each other and cooperating with each other in the way of saving souls." The paper's circulation quickly quadrupled.{{sfn|Scripps|1926|pp=177–178}}<ref name="NYTimes revival">{{cite news|title=The Revival in Cincinnati: The Results of the Religious Awakening Started by the 'Boy Preacher'|work=The New York Times|date=April 18, 1882|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E2DB113EE433A2575BC1A9629C94639FD7CF}}</ref>
On February 11, 1883,{{sfn|McRae|1924|p=40}} the paper was given a more distinctive name, ''The Penny Post'', because "Penny Paper" was "more of a description of the paper than a name". In July, the Scripps family assumed full ownership of the company, with E. W. having a controlling interest.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=209}} It was the first paper that he had ever owned.{{sfn|Scripps|1926|p=165}} It became ''The Evening Post'' on October 11, 1883{{spaced ndash}} though the price would remain at one penny until 1918. On September 2, 1890, it was finally renamed ''The Cincinnati Post''.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|pp=211–212}} On September 15, a Kentucky edition debuted with coverage of Covington, Newport, Bellevue, Dayton, and Ludlow by a dedicated staff in Covington. One year later, Scripps renamed it ''The Kentucky Post'' and began distributing it as a full-fledged publication wrapped around the Cincinnati paper at no additional charge.<ref name="ENKY Philipps" /> ''The Kentucky Post'' soon put its sole rival, ''The Commonwealth'', out of business.{{sfn|McRae|1924|pp=64–65}} By the time the local typographical union debuted its own penny paper, the ''News'', in 1894, the ''Post'' had added such thorough coverage of labor relations that the ''News'' folded within two months.{{sfn|Baldasty|1999|pp=83–84}}
In 1894, E. W. Scripps and his half-brother, George H. Scripps, organized their various papers into the first modern newspaper chain. In July 1895, it was named the Scripps-McRae League in recognition of ''Post'' general manager Milton A. McRae, a longtime partner.{{sfn|McRae|1924|p=119}}{{sfn|Scripps|1926|p=190}} By 1903, the ''Post'' boasted of leading all Cincinnati dailies with a sworn daily average circulation of 146,884.<ref name="Ink Haarmayer">{{cite journal|title=In Cincinnati|first=H. O.|last=Haarmayer|journal=Printers' Ink|date=August 5, 1903|volume=45|page=34|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arwpAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA5-PA34}}</ref>
===Crusader for reform=== [[File:The Cincinnati Post, October 23, 1905.jpg|thumb|left|The October 23, 1905, issue of the ''Post'' reprinted a speech by War Secretary William Howard Taft attacking Boss Cox.]]
From its founding to 1930, the ''Post'' crusaded against bossism, aligning with the Democratic Party locally.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=215}} In 1883, it launched a campaign against Thomas C. Campbell, a notorious jury fixer. Campbell responded by suing the paper for libel in front of a partially fixed jury. Amid threats from the Cox machine, the ''Post'' hired bodyguards for its editors and managers. Boss Campbell's regime ended with the courthouse riots of 1884. In 1889, the ''Post'' put the ''Cincinnati Telegram'', an afternoon competitor once run by Campbell, out of business by secretly financing its unsuccessful move to morning publication.{{sfn|McRae|1924|pp=41–45}}{{sfn|McRae|1924|pp=72–73}}{{sfn|Baldasty|1999|pp=83–84}} In 1904 and 1905, the ''Post'' directed its fire against Campbell's protégé, George B. Cox, exposing graft and lampooning his affiliates with the help of cartoonist Homer Davenport.{{sfn|McRae|1924|pp=41–45}}<ref name="Enquirer Rutledge" /> The ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s afternoon competitor, the Taft-owned ''Times-Star'', strongly supported Boss Cox.<ref name="Miller">{{cite book|title=Boss Cox's Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era|first=Zane L.|last=Miller|publisher=Ohio State University Press|year=2000|pages=183–187|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vafkOIO6u6oC&pg=PA183|isbn=9780814208618}}</ref>
In 1904, at President Theodore Roosevelt's suggestion, the ''Post'' became the first newspaper in the country to endorse William Howard Taft for president in 1908. Corporate president Milton A. McRae had long been a supporter of the Cincinnati native, despite the Taft family owning the ''Times-Star'' and generally supporting the Cox machine. McRae secured the help of ''Times-Star'' editor Charles Phelps Taft in publicizing the editorial. The ''Post'' retracted its endorsement just before the 1908 election and by 1910 had resumed its attacks on President Taft and the Republican Party.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|pp=213–215}}<ref name="Enquirer Rutledge little" />{{sfn|McRae|1924|pp=53–57}}
The ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s frequent reports of collusion would at times decimate advertising revenue. However, the paper always turned a profit because the exposés were immensely popular with readers.{{sfn|Scripps|1926|p=183}}<ref name="Stoltzfus">{{cite book|title=Freedom from Advertising: E.W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment|first=Duane C. S.|last=Stoltzfus|location=Champaign, Illinois|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2007|pages=1–5|isbn=978-0-252-03115-1|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaoPVqY3vXUC&pg=PA1}}</ref> The ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s role in a 1905 Democratic mayoral victory led some advertisers to boycott the paper for up to a decade, and its valuation fell by half.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|pp=215–216}} The paper habitually refused advertisements attacking labor unions, such as those by Postum Cereals in 1905.{{sfn|Baldasty|1999|p=97}} In 1914, the ''Post'' weathered a severe drop in advertising after it exposed a scheme to extend the franchises of the local utilities and sided with striking streetcar workers.<ref name="Pearsons">{{cite journal|title=How Business Controls News|first=Charles Edward|last=Russell|author-link=Charles Edward Russell|journal=Pearson's Magazine|volume=31|issue=6|date=May 1914|pages=552–554|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZQkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA553}}</ref> Still, disappointed that the ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s advertising business always pressured the paper to moderate its investigative reporting, E. W. Scripps founded the Chicago ''Day Book'' in 1911 as an experimental daily paper entirely devoid of advertising. The ''Day Book'' folded in 1917.<ref name="Stoltzfus" />
In 1924, the ''Post'' was the only Cincinnati daily that endorsed a new municipal charter based on the council–manager system, nonpartisan elections, and proportional representation. The enactment of this charter the following year propelled the Charter Committee to power and led to the demise of political machines in Cincinnati,<ref name="CityBeat Osborne" /> ultimately dooming the Cincinnati Subway that was seen as a product of bossism.<ref>{{cite news|title=Train to Nowhere|first=Andrew J.|last=Hawkins|work=The Verge|publisher=Vox Media|date=August 10, 2016|access-date=May 20, 2018|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/10/12411632/public-transportation-failures-america-cincinnati-subway/}}</ref> In 1936, the ''Post'' backed the nonpartisan movement as it expanded to the Hamilton County government.{{sfn|Stevens|1969|pp=215–216}} In 1947, the ''Post'' successfully defended the proportional representation system against a campaign by Charles P. Taft to repeal it.<ref name="NYTimes overshadows">{{cite news|title=Cincinnati to Vote on PR; Issue on Keeping Voting System Overshadows Council Race|work=The New York Times|date=November 2, 1947|page=4|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E5DE103AE233A25751C0A9679D946693D6CF}}</ref>
===Consolidation=== On October 1, 1935, the ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s corporate parent, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, entered the radio business by purchasing AM station WFBE 1230. The callsign was changed to WCPO, for "The Voice of the '''C'''incinnati '''Po'''st", and the station switched to a news radio format.<ref name="Built">{{cite book|title=They Built A City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati|publisher=The Cincinnati Post|editor=Federal Writers' Project|editor-link=Federal Writers' Project|year=1938|page=354|url=https://archive.org/details/theybuiltcity15000federich}}</ref> Initially, the station's main studios were located in David Sinton's hotel,<ref name="Martini">{{cite book|title=Cincinnati Radio|first=Michael A.|last=Martini|location=Charleston, South Carolina|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2011|page=30|isbn=978-0-7385-8864-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4PSXS9LPPyAC&pg=PA30}}</ref> while news bulletins originated from a broom closet adjacent to the ''Post'' city room.<ref name="CincyMag Wood">{{cite journal|title=Mort's Machine|first=Mary|last=Wood|journal=Cincinnati|publisher=CM Media|volume=23|issue=10|date=July 1990|page=33|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MusCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33}}</ref> WCPO-TV signed on the air on July 26, 1949.<ref name="Friedman">{{cite book|title=Cincinnati Television|first=Jim|last=Friedman|location=Charleston, South Carolina|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2007|page=20|isbn=978-0-7385-5169-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwg6e3yc2kMC&pg=PA20}}</ref>
By the late 1940s, sales of ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'', Cincinnati's remaining morning daily, had increased dramatically, fueled in part by the success of its Sunday morning monopoly; meanwhile, the ''Post'' and especially ''The Cincinnati Times-Star'' faced a declining afternoon market. In 1948 and 1949, lawyers for Scripps-Howard and The Times-Star Company discussed the possibility of jointly publishing a Sunday morning edition called the ''Times-Post''. The two companies determined that they would be safe from Sherman Act investigations, which were rare in the newspaper industry; however, they eventually scrapped the idea for fear that the ''Enquirer'' would sue them for any losses. Another factor was the difficulty of establishing a Sunday carrier system.{{sfn|Taft|1960|pp=261–263}}
On April 26, 1956, Scripps-Howard purchased a 36.5% controlling interest in the ''Enquirer'' for $4,059,000, beating out The Times-Star Company's $2,380,051 and Tribune Publishing's $15 per share, or $2,238,000.<ref name="NYTimes 36">{{cite news|title=36% of Cincinnati Enquirer Stock Sold to Affiliate of Scripps Chain; Chicago Investment House Accepts Its Offer of $4,059,000 for Debentures—Two Other Papers Also Bid|work=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=April 27, 1956|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9805E7DE1F3BE23ABC4F51DFB266838D649EDE}}</ref>{{sfn|Taft|1960|pp=270–274}} Then, on July 20, 1958, Scripps also acquired the ''Times-Star'', merging the afternoon paper with the ''Post''.<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine|title=The Press: Death of the Times-Star|magazine=Time|date=August 4, 1958|access-date=November 17, 2014|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,863656,00.html}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes Times-Star">{{cite news|title=Cincinnati Times-Star Is Sold And Merged With Scripps' Post|work=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=July 21, 1958|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0DE7D8133DEF34BC4951DFB1668383649EDE}}</ref> Only three ''Times-Star'' reporters were retained.<ref name="Enquirer Andrew">{{cite news|title=Obituary: Reds writer Earl Lawson, 79|first=Karen|last=Andrew|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=January 16, 2003|access-date=November 30, 2014|url=http://enquirer.com/editions/2003/01/16/loc_ledeobit16.html}}</ref> The combined paper operated out of the Cincinnati Times-Star Building, noted for its Art Deco architecture. The paper would be published under the name ''The Cincinnati Post and Times-Star'' until December 31, 1974, when it reverted to ''The Cincinnati Post''.<ref name="Enquirer Suess" />
[[File:Cincinnati-800-broadway.jpg|thumb|right|upright|The ''Post'' published from the Times-Star Building from 1958 to 1984.<ref name="Enquirer Suess">{{cite news|last=Suess|first=Jeff|title=Did you know? Times-Star Building is news icon|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=January 13, 2013|access-date=January 20, 2013|url=http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130113/NEWS01/301130103/Did-you-know-Times-Star-Building-news-icon}}</ref> American Financial, the ''Enquirer''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> corporate parent, purchased the building in 1975.<ref name="CincyMag Dillehay" />]]
''Post'' circulation peaked in 1961. Combined ''Cincinnati Post'' and ''Kentucky Post'' circulation was 275,000,<ref name="NYT Driehaus" /> including nearly 60,000 for the Kentucky edition alone.<ref name="ENKY Philipps" /> In 1968, the ''Post'' had 50,000 more daily subscriptions than the ''Enquirer''.<ref name="CincyMag Dillehay">{{cite journal|title=How To Succeed In<!-- sic --> Newspapering Without Really Trying|first=Whayne|last=Dillehay|journal=Cincinnati|publisher=Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce|date=October 1978|volume=12|issue=1|pages=77–81, 123–127|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-sCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77}}</ref> In the 1960s, the ''Kentucky Post'' dominated the newspaper market in 12 Kentucky counties: Bracken, Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Harrison, Kenton, Mason, Owen, Pendleton, and Robertson.<ref name="ENKY Philipps" />
With the ''Times-Star'' and ''Enquirer'' acquisitions, the Scripps family owned all of Cincinnati's dailies, along with WCPO-AM, WCPO-FM, and WCPO-TV,<ref name="CincyMag Murtha">{{cite web|title=Scripps: Once, They Bought Ink by the Barrel|first=Lisa|last=Murtha|work=Cincinnati|publisher=Emmis Communications|date=November 8, 2014|access-date=November 23, 2014|url=http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/scripps-bought-ink-barrel/}}</ref> which consistently led local television ratings with Al Schottelkotte's news reports.<ref name="Post Horstman">{{cite news|title=Al Schottelkotte: He set the pace for TV news|first=Barry M.|last=Horstman|work=The Cincinnati Post|date=March 22, 1999|url=http://www.cincypost.com/living/1999/schot032299.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311214746/http://www.cincypost.com/living/1999/schot032299.html|archive-date=March 11, 2007}}</ref> The E. W. Scripps Company operated the ''Enquirer'' at arm's length, even omitting the Scripps lighthouse logo from the ''Enquirer''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s nameplate. Nevertheless, the United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against the company in 1964.<ref name="Time separation">{{cite magazine|title=Newspapers: Separation in Cincinnati|magazine=Time|date=October 11, 1968|access-date=November 23, 2014|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902399,00.html}}</ref><ref name="Enquirer Clark">{{cite news|title=Post won PM market before decline|first=Paul|last=Clark|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=December 28, 2007|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20071230/ENT/712300302/Post-won-PM-market-before-decline}}</ref> In 1968, Scripps entered into a consent decree to sell the ''Enquirer''. It was sold to Carl Lindner, Jr.'s American Financial Corporation on February 20, 1971.<ref name="Tribune OK">{{cite news|title=Scripps O.K.'s Sale of Enquirer Control|work=Chicago Tribune|agency=United Press International|date=February 20, 1971|volume=124|issue=31|page=2:7|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/02/20/page/185/article/scripps-0-k-s-sale-of-enquirer-control}}</ref>
===Joint operating agreement=== On September 22, 1977, the ''Post'' signed a joint operating agreement (JOA) with ''The Cincinnati Enquirer''.<ref name="Enquirer Peale">{{cite news|title=Post pact will expire|first=Cliff|last=Peale|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=January 17, 2004|access-date=November 19, 2014|url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/01/17/biz_joa.17.html}}</ref> For two years, the ''Post'' had secretly negotiated the terms of the JOA with the ''Enquirer'' while securing concessions from labor unions. The two papers petitioned the Justice Department for an antitrust exemption under the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970. This was the second JOA application under the Newspaper Preservation Act; the first, involving the ''Anchorage Daily News'' and ''Anchorage Times'', was summarily approved but already seen as a failure.<ref name="CincyMag Dillehay" />
At Justice Department hearings, the ''Post'' claimed to be the brink of financial failure, with losses over the previous six years totaling $12 million. Scripps-Howard argued that the JOA would preserve a second editorial voice in Cincinnati, a "no-growth market". However, ''Post'' employees and suburban newspaper publishers accused the ''Post'' of producing artificial losses in an attempt to secure expected profits from a JOA.<ref name="CincyMag Dillehay" /><ref name="Barnett">{{cite conference|title=Local Monopoly in the Newspaper Industry: Some Skepticism About Its Economic Inevitability and Governmental Embrace|first=Stephen Roger|last=Barnett|author-link=Stephen Barnett|conference=Symposium on Media Concentration|location=Washington, D.C.|date=December 14, 1978|publication-date=1979|publisher=Federal Trade Commission|page=513|via=HathiTrust|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004811959;view=1up;seq=152}}</ref> Scripps-Howard rejected an informal offer by Larry Flynt to help fund a takeover of the ''Post'' by its employees instead of signing the JOA.<ref name="Enquirer Rutledge little" /> ''Post'' coverage of the proceedings was limited to a single Saturday article, in contrast to multiple reports published in the ''Enquirer''.<ref name="CincyMag Dillehay" />
The ''Enquirer''–''Post'' agreement was approved on November 26, 1979,<ref name="NYTimes backed">{{cite news|title=Joint Operation Backed For 2 Cincinnati Papers|work=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=November 27, 1979|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E6DE1438E732A25754C2A9679D946890D6CF}}</ref> taking effect after negotiations and legal battles with unions, including with 131 ''Post'' printers who had been guaranteed jobs for life.<ref name="CincyMag Dillehay" /> As the more financially sound paper, the ''Enquirer'' received an 80% stake in the business and handled all business functions of both papers, including printing, distribution, and selling advertising.<ref name="CityBeat Driehaus">{{cite news|title=Cover Story: The Deal That Changed Everything|first=Bob|last=Driehaus|work=Cincinnati CityBeat|date=February 21, 2007|access-date=November 17, 2014|url=http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-2262-cover_story_the_deal_that_changed_everything.html}}</ref> The ''Post'' forwent Sunday publishing, a major advantage the ''Enquirer'' had over the ''Post''. The ''Post'' eliminated 500 of 600 jobs as a result of the agreement.<ref name="CincyMag Dillehay" />
On April 10, 2000, the ''Enquirer'' and ''Post'' downsized from a traditional {{convert|12+5/16|in||-wide|adj=mid}} broadsheet format to an {{convert|11+5/8|in||-wide|adj=mid}} format similar to Berliner. They also began publishing in color every day of the week. Gannett promoted the narrower format as being "easier to handle, hold, and read" but also cited reduced newsprint costs.<ref name="New century">{{cite web|title=News for the New Century|work=Cincinnati.com |access-date=November 24, 2014|url=http://www2.cincinnati.com/newcentury/}}</ref><ref name="Enquirer Bushee">{{cite news|title=Enquirer launches new look|first=Ward|last=Bushee|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=April 9, 2000|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/04/09/loc_enquirer_launches.html}}</ref>
===Decline and closure=== In a pattern seen throughout the industry, the ''Post'' declined severely during the 30-year term of the JOA, particularly during the 1980s.<ref name="Enquirer newspapers">{{cite news|title=Cincinnati's newspapers|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=December 12, 2007|access-date=November 30, 2014|url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2007/12/30/1228NewspaperTimeLine2.swf|format=Adobe Flash}}</ref> In 1977, when the agreement was announced, the ''Post'' had a daily circulation of 195,000,<ref name="CityBeat Driehaus" /> more than the ''Enquirer'',<ref name="CincyMag Dillehay" /> but by September 2003, the ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s daily circulation had fallen to 42,219, or 23% of the ''Enquirer''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 182,176.<ref name="Enquirer Peale" /> By this time, the ''Post'' had shifted its focus to the Kentucky edition, and sister station WCPO-TV more often partnered with the ''Enquirer'' than with the ''Post''.<ref name="E&P Strupp">{{cite journal|title=Will Cincy Paper Find New Kentucky home?|first=Joe|last=Strupp|journal=Editor & Publisher|publisher=Duncan McIntosh Company|date=January 1, 2005|access-date=November 30, 2014|url=http://editorandpublisher.com/Article/Will-Cincy-Paper-Find-New-Kentucky-home-}}</ref>
In January 2004, the ''Enquirer'' informed the ''Post'' of its intention to let the JOA expire on December 31, 2007.<ref name="Enquirer Peale" /><ref name="JOA expiration">{{cite press release|title=Newspaper JOA in Cincinnati will not be renewed after 2007|publisher=E. W. Scripps Company|date=January 16, 2004|url=http://pressreleases.scripps.com/release/pdf/662|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716023553/http://pressreleases.scripps.com/release/pdf/662|archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref> That spring, the ''Post'' ended distribution in the northern suburbs in Butler and Warren counties to concentrate on Hamilton County and its Northern Kentucky edition. Also that year, political cartoonist Jeff Stahler left the ''Post'' for ''The Columbus Dispatch''. In June 2005, the ''Post'' closed its Kentucky newsroom and announced early retirement offers to employees in advance of its probable closure. These changes resulted in profits of $23.5 million in 2005 and $20.7 million the following year.<ref name="CityBeat Driehaus" />
In 2006, the ''Post'' ended its 115-year practice of bundling the ''Cincinnati Post'' inside the ''Kentucky Post''. By then, the Kentucky paper had eclipsed its Cincinnati counterpart in circulation, despite the ''Enquirer'' limiting distribution to certain parts of three Northern Kentucky counties.<ref name="ENKY Philipps" /> By 2007, the paper employed only 52 newsroom staff,<ref name="Enquirer Rutledge" /> while its circulation had declined to 27,000,<ref name="NYT Driehaus" /><ref name="Schulhofer-Wohl" /> an estimated four percent of local households.<ref name="Courier cease">{{cite news|title=Cincinnati Post ceases publication; Ky. Web news site to launch|work=Cincinnati Business Courier|publisher=American City Business Journals|date=December 31, 2007|access-date=November 23, 2014|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/12/31/daily2.html}}</ref> On July 17, parent company E. W. Scripps confirmed that both ''The Cincinnati Post'' and ''The Kentucky Post'' would cease publication on the day of the JOA's expiration.<ref name="Courier fold">{{cite news|title=Local Post newspapers to fold at end of year|work=Cincinnati Business Courier|publisher=American City Business Journals|date=July 17, 2007|access-date=November 23, 2014|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/07/16/daily17.html}}</ref>
The ''Post'' published its final print edition on December 31, 2007.<ref name="Winternitz" /> The commemorative "Farewell Edition" led with the headline "-30-", meaning "the end" in newsroom jargon.<ref name="Enquirer Coolidge">{{cite news |last=Coolidge |first=Sharon |date=January 1, 2008 |title=For Post, one final edition |url=http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20080101/NEWS01/801010355/For-Post-one-final-edition |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129030754/http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20080101/NEWS01/801010355/For-Post-one-final-edition |archive-date=November 29, 2014 |accessdate=November 18, 2014 |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |publisher=Gannett Company}}</ref> About 30 ''Enquirer'' employees assigned to ''Post'' operations lost their jobs.<ref name="Courier Enquirer jobs">{{cite news|title=Enquirer workers to lose jobs in Post closing|work=Cincinnati Business Courier|publisher=American City Business Journals|date=October 23, 2007|access-date=November 23, 2014|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/10/22/daily26.html}}</ref> At a farewell party in the ''Post'' newsroom, a band played for the first time the "Cincinnati Post March",<ref name="Enquirer Coolidge" /> which was composed by John N. Klohr and Frank Simon in 1931 for the paper's 50th anniversary.<ref name="Osborne">{{cite book|title=Music in Ohio|first=William|last=Osborne|location=Kent, Ohio|publisher=Kent State University Press|year=2004|pages=462, 621|isbn=0-87338-775-9|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_x7_3e7H-xcC&pg=PA462}}</ref> WCPO-TV replaced the ''Post'' as sponsor of the local qualification rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.<ref name="Courier Bee">{{cite news|title=WCPO to sponsor local Scripps bee|work=Cincinnati Business Courier|publisher=American City Business Journals|date=August 16, 2007|access-date=November 19, 2014|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/08/13/daily42.html}}</ref>
The ''Post'' came to an end due to a number of factors, including the end of the joint operating agreement, a 75% decrease in readership, and decreasing advertising revenues.<ref name="CityBeat Osborne">{{cite news|url=http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-2261-cover-story-the-light-dims.html|title=The Light Dims|first=Kevin|last=Osborne|work=Cincinnati CityBeat|date=February 21, 2007}}</ref> By the paper's closing, its circulation had fallen to about 25,000 on weekdays and 34,000 on Saturdays, versus the ''Enquirer''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 195,000 on weekdays and Saturdays and 280,000 on Sundays.<ref name="Post Paeth">{{cite news|title=Loss of a voice: The Post's passing will change the region's media landscape|first=Greg|last=Paeth|work=The Cincinnati Post|publisher=E. W. Scripps Company|date=December 31, 2007|access-date=January 11, 2015|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172912584.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109012442/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172912584.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 9, 2009}}</ref> However, some ''Post'' employees faulted the ''Enquirer'' for neglecting its partner, citing empty or outdated newsboxes<ref name="CityBeat Driehaus" /> and uncooperative subscription agents.<ref name="CityBeat Osborne" /> A 2009 study attempted to measure the impact of the ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s closure on the political process in Northern Kentucky, a traditional stronghold for the paper. It concluded that the closure caused an initial short-term decline in political competition and voter turnout, despite the ''Post'' having low circulation in its final years.<ref name="Schulhofer-Wohl">{{cite journal|title=Do newspapers matter? Evidence from the closure of The Cincinnati Post|last1=Schulhofer-Wohl|first1=Sam|author-link1=Sam Schulhofer-Wohl|last2=Garrido|first2=Miguel|journal=Discussion Papers in Economics|publisher=Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs|year=2009|issue=236|hdl=10419/59031|url=http://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/59031}}</ref>
By 2025, a non-profit group called the Child Advocacy for Rights & Equity claimed to have resurrected the paper.<ref>{{cite web |title=[Homepage] |url=http://www.thecincinnatipost.online |website=TheCincinnatiPost.online |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref>
==Online presence== 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''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s site, ''Enquirer.com''. A shared website, ''GoCincinnati!'',<ref name="Enquirer Brewer">{{cite news|title=Most papers tiptoeing onto Internet|first=Charles|last=Brewer|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=October 27, 1996|url=http://enquirer.com/columns/brewer/102796_cb.html}}</ref> 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.<ref name="GoCinci Internet">{{cite web|title=Other U.S. Cities|work=GoCinci.Net Internet Access |year=1997|url=http://www.gocinci.net/helpdesk/net_access/city.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970606151007/http://www.gocinci.net/helpdesk/net_access/city.html|archive-date=June 6, 1997}}</ref> Both papers' home pages moved to a more memorable domain, ''Cincinnati.com'', on November 1, 1998.<ref name="Enquirer Eckberg">{{cite news|title=GoCincinnati gets a new name|first=John|last=Eckberg|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=November 1, 1998|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=http://enquirer.com/editions/1998/11/01/bus_web01.html}}</ref> The new brand encompassed about 300 local commercial sites and some community organizations.<ref>{{cite news|title=Web site has a new address|work=The Cincinnati Post|date=October 31, 1998|url=http://www.cincypost.com/business/1998/web103198.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041123005402/http://www.cincypost.com/business/1998/web103198.html|archive-date=November 23, 2004}}</ref>
The day after the ''Post''<nowiki>'</nowiki>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.<ref name="B&C Malone">{{cite journal|title=Paper Now a Station Site|first=Michael|last=Malone|journal=Broadcasting & Cable|date=February 22, 2008|access-date=November 17, 2014|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/paper-now-station-site/84402}}</ref> In 2009, the website had two staff members plus interns.<ref name="Scripps blog">{{cite press release|title=Blog draws in readers; boosts KyPost.com's hits|access-date=November 17, 2014|url=http://escrippsnews.scrippsnet.com/node/2241}}</ref> In 2013, KYPost.com began redirecting visitors to WCPO.com.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kypost.com/ kypost.com] at the Wayback Machine</ref>
Archives of ''Post'' articles can be found in online subscription databases. NewsBank contains ''Cincinnati Post'' and ''Kentucky Post'' articles from 1882 to 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Access World News|publisher=NewsBank|access-date=February 15, 2019|url=https://titlelist.newsbank.com/View?list=Access%20World%20News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Newspapers|publisher=Florida A&M University|date=August 28, 2012|access-date=November 28, 2014|page=3|url=http://www.famu.edu/library/Newspapers10.pdf}}</ref> Until its closure, HighBeam Research contained 313,031 ''Cincinnati Post'' articles from 1996 to 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)|publisher=HighBeam Research|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=http://www.highbeam.com/publications/the-cincinnati-post-cincinnati-oh-p4037|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103212936/http://www.highbeam.com/publications/the-cincinnati-post-cincinnati-oh-p4037|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 3, 2012}}</ref>
==Notable people== thumb|right|The city copy desk in 1907{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=214}} or 1910. O. O. McIntyre is shown seated at 1 o'clock.
===Contributors=== Many of the following people started their careers as ''Post'' contributors:
*Clay Wade Bailey{{spaced ndash}} Kentucky statehouse reporter for whom the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge is named<ref name="Enquirer Rutledge little">{{cite news|title=Some little-known facts about the Cincinnati Post|first=Mike|last=Rutledge|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer Company|date=December 30, 2007|access-date=November 24, 2014|url=http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20071230/NEWS01/712300306/Some-little-known-facts-about-Cincinnati-Post}}</ref> *Richard A. Boehne{{spaced ndash}} President & CEO of the E. W. Scripps Company<ref name="NYT Driehaus" /> *E. A. Bushnell{{spaced ndash}} political cartoonist<ref name="Clark">{{cite book|title=Ohio Art and Artists|first=Edna Maria|last=Clark|publisher=Garrett and Massie|year=1932|page=292|isbn=9781404753501|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W-pJAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> *Nick Clooney{{spaced ndash}} news anchor and father of George Clooney<ref name="Enquirer Kiesewetter">{{cite news|title=George Clooney tapped Cincinnati roots to make 'Ides of March'|first=John|last=Kiesewetter|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=October 2, 2011|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20111002/ENT02/110020344/George-Clooney-tapped-Cincinnati-roots-make-Ides-March-}}</ref> *Irvin S. Cobb{{spaced ndash}} author and columnist{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=212}} *Jerry Crasnick{{spaced ndash}} baseball writer for ESPN<ref>{{cite news|title=In Schott's Doghouse, He Eats Well|work=Chicago Tribune|date=September 20, 1992|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/09/20/in-schotts-doghouse-he-eats-well/}}</ref> *Russel Crouse{{spaced ndash}} playwright{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=213}} *Homer Davenport{{spaced ndash}} political cartoonist{{sfn|McRae|1924|pp=41–45}}<ref name="Enquirer Rutledge" /> *Robert Edward Edmondson{{spaced ndash}} anti-Jewish pamphleteer<ref>{{cite book|title=I Testify: Amazing memoir-exposure of international secret war-plotting|first=Robert Edward|last=Edmondson|location=Bend, Oregon|year=1953|page=274|url=https://archive.org/details/ITestifyAgainstTheJews}} In "Biographical Sketch" (back matter).</ref> *Freeman Fulbright{{spaced ndash}} editor of ''Newsweek'' and the ''New York Herald Tribune''<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in America, 1977–78|publisher=News Communications|year=1977|page=1088}}</ref> *William Greider{{spaced ndash}} author<ref name="Greider" /> *Ellis Henican{{spaced ndash}} columnist and political analyst<ref>{{cite journal|title=Notes on people|journal=Editor & Publisher|publisher=Duncan McIntosh Company|volume=116|issue=3|page=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4sgAQAAMAAJ|year=1983}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Pulitzer winner counsels students on using media|first=Miharu|last=Sugie|work=The Huntington News|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=September 25, 2014|access-date=December 26, 2014|url=http://huntnewsnu.com/2014/09/pulitzer-winner-counsels-students-on-using-media/}}</ref> *Greg Hoard{{spaced ndash}} sportscaster<ref name="Post Bird">{{cite news|title=WXIX sports anchor quits to write|first=Rick|last=Bird|work=The Cincinnati Post|date=December 1, 2004|url=http://www.cincypost.com/2004/12/01/broad120104.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050213060620/http://www.cincypost.com/2004/12/01/broad120104.html|archive-date=February 13, 2005}}</ref> *Michael Kelly{{spaced ndash}} editor-at-large of ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and columnist for ''The Washington Post''<ref name="CityBeat Osborne" /> *Stephanie J. Jones{{spaced ndash}} public affairs strategist, attorney, and author<ref>{{cite web|title=Stephanie Jones|publisher=United States Department of Transportation|date=December 10, 2014|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=http://www.dot.gov/mission/stephanie-jones|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229160823/http://www.dot.gov/mission/stephanie-jones|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 29, 2014}}</ref> *Earl Lawson{{spaced ndash}} sportswriter<ref name="Enquirer Andrew" /> *Ray Long{{spaced ndash}} editor-in-chief of ''Cosmopolitan''<ref>{{cite news|title=Ray Long, Noted Editor, Writer, Ends Life in California Home|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|agency=United Press International|volume=52|issue=16|date=July 10, 1935|page=62|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qUwbAAAAIBAJ&pg=2351,2827622&dq=ray+long+editor&hl=en}}</ref> *Jay Mariotti{{spaced ndash}} sports broadcaster<ref name="Post Wheeler">{{cite news|title=Post sports department a writer's paradise|first=Lonnie|last=Wheeler|work=The Cincinnati Post|publisher=E. W. Scripps|date=December 31, 2007|access-date=January 11, 2015|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172912622.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329142013/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172912622.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 29, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Wojciechowski">{{cite book|title=Pond Scum and Vultures|first=Gene|last=Wojciechowski|author-link=Gene Wojciechowski|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|year=1990|isbn=0026308517|url=https://archive.org/details/pondscumvultures0000wojc}} As quoted in {{cite news|title=Remembering The Time Jay Mariotti Got Hazed In The Reds Clubhouse|first=Emma|last=Carmichael|work=Deadspin|publisher=Gawker Media|date=February 18, 2011|access-date=January 11, 2015|url=http://deadspin.com/5764437/remembering-the-time-jay-mariotti-got-hazed-in-the-reds-clubhouse}}</ref> *Joe Posnanski{{spaced ndash}} reporter for ''Sports Illustrated'' and bestselling sports author<ref>{{cite journal|title=Contributors|journal=Cincinnati|publisher=Emmis Communications|volume=42|issue=10|date=July 2009|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yr0oJRuCKd8C&pg=PA12}}</ref> *Jerry Rubin{{spaced ndash}} social activist, businessman<ref name="NYT Pace">{{cite news|title=Jerry Rubin, 56, Flashy 60's Radical, Dies; 'Yippies' Founder and Chicago 7 Defendant|first=Eric|last=Pace|work=The New York Times|date=November 30, 1994|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/30/obituaries/jerry-rubin-56-flashy-60-s-radical-dies-yippies-founder-and-chicago-7-defendant.html}}</ref> *H. G. Salsinger{{spaced ndash}} sports editor of ''The Detroit News''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Ballplayers: Baseball's Ultimate Biographical Reference|editor1-first=Mike|editor1-last=Shatzkin|editor2-first=James|editor2-last=Charlton|publisher=William Morrow and Company|year=1990|page=958|isbn=0-87795-984-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wlwRAQAAMAAJ}}</ref> *Eugene Walter{{spaced ndash}} playwright{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=213}} *Bill Watterson{{spaced ndash}} creator of ''Calvin and Hobbes''<ref name="CincyMag Winternitz">{{cite journal|title=Observer's Notebook|first=Felix|last=Winternitz|journal=Cincinnati|publisher=CM Media|volume=23|issue=7|date=April 1990|page=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OusCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15}}</ref> *Gary Webb{{spaced ndash}} Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist<ref name="CityBeat Osborne" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Major Hollywood film has ties to Northern Kentucky|work=WCPO-TV|date=October 2, 2014|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=http://www.wcpo.com/news/region-northern-kentucky/gary-webb-kill-the-messenger-major-hollywood-film-has-ties-to-northern-kentucky}}</ref> *H. T. Webster{{spaced ndash}} cartoonist{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=212}} *David Wecker{{spaced ndash}} columnist<ref name="WVXU Perzel">{{cite interview|title=Former Cincinnati Post writer David Wecker talks about his new collection of columns, "Square Pegs"|first=David|last=Wecker|interviewer=Mark Perzel|work=Cincinnati Edition|via=WVXU|publisher=Cincinnati Public Radio|date=September 26, 2014|access-date=December 29, 2014|url=http://wvxu.org/post/former-cincinnati-post-writer-david-wecker-talks-about-his-new-collection-columns-square-pegs}}</ref>
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===''Cincinnati Post'' editors=== Source:<ref name="CincyPost editors">{{cite news|title=Cincinnati Post editors|work=The Cincinnati Post|date=December 31, 2007|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-cincinnati-post-and/132717741/}}</ref> * Walter E. Wellman (1881) * Robert B. Ross (1881–1883) * John H. Ridenour (1883–1886) * Delos R. Baker (1886–1889) * L. T. Atwood (1889–1895) * Charles F. Mosher (1895–1905) * John Vandercook (1905–1906) * Harry Brown (1906–1914) * Victor Morgan (1914–1915) * Frank W. Rostock (1915–1921) * Elmer P. Fries (1921–1929) * Frank W. Rostock (1929–1933) * Carl Groat (1933–1953) * Dick Thornburg (1953–1969) * Walter Friedenberg (1969–1977) * William R. Burleigh (1977–1983) * Paul Knue (1983–2001) * Mike Philipps (2001–2007) {{Col-break}}
===''Kentucky Post'' editors=== Source:<ref name="KyPost editors">{{cite news|title=Kentucky Post editors|work=The Cincinnati Post|date=December 31, 2007|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-cincinnati-post-and/132717741/}}</ref>
* William Purnell Campbell (1891–1904) * Harry W. Brown (1904–1906) * Milton J. Bonner (1906–1915) * Frank Crippen (1915) * Charles W. Larsh (1916–1918) * Albert W. Burhman (1918) * Edward P. Mills (1918–1919) * Max B. Cook (1919–1921) * Bruce I. Susong (1921–1931) * Donald E. Weaver (1931–1936) * Carl A. Saunders (1936–1962) * Vance Trimble (1963–1979) * Paul Knue (1979–1983) * Judith Clabes (1983–1995) * Paul Knue (1995–2001) * Mike Philipps (2001–2007) {{col-end}}
===Others=== * William L. Mallory, Sr.{{spaced ndash}} paper boy; later majority leader in the Ohio House of Representatives<ref name="Post Moores">{{cite news|title=Post newsboy a route to the future for many|first=Lew|last=Moores|work=The Cincinnati Post|date=December 31, 2007|access-date=January 11, 2015|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172912599.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329142020/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172912599.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 29, 2015}}</ref> *O. O. McIntyre{{spaced ndash}} managing editor; later a New York columnist{{sfn|Stevens|1969|p=214}} *Milton A. McRae{{spaced ndash}} advertising manager; later cofounder of Scripps-Howard{{sfn|McRae|1924|p=39}} *Alicia Reece{{spaced ndash}} intern; later Cincinnati Vice-Mayor<ref name="CityBeat Osborne" />
==Notes and references== {{Reflist|30em}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book|title=E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers|first=Gerald J.|last=Baldasty|location=Champaign, Illinois|publisher=University of Illinois Press|date=January 1, 1999|isbn=0-252-02255-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5WUS3tDQItgC&pg=PA83}} * {{cite book|title=Forty Years in Newspaperdom: The Autobiography of a Newspaper Man|first=Milton Alexander|last=McRae|author-link=Milton A. McRae|location=New York City|publisher=Brentano's|year=1924|via=HathiTrust|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031001863;view=1up;seq=81}} * {{cite book|title=History of the Scripps Concern|first=Edward Willis|last=Scripps|author-link=E. W. Scripps (businessman)|editor-first=Gilson|editor-last=Gardner|year=1926|url=http://media.library.ohiou.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/scripps/id/8929/rec/1|archive-date=November 29, 2014|access-date=November 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129092014/http://media.library.ohiou.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/scripps/id/8929/rec/1|url-status=dead}} * {{cite thesis|title=A History of The Cincinnati Post|type=PhD|first=George Edward|last=Stevens|publisher=University of Minnesota|year=1968}} * {{cite journal|title=From Penny Paper to Post and Times-Star: Mr. Scripps' First Link|first=George Edward|last=Stevens|journal=Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin|publisher=Cincinnati Historical Society|volume=27|issue=3|date=Fall 1969|pages=206–222|oclc=5368837|url=http://library.cincymuseum.org/starweb/journals/servlet.starweb?path=journals/journals.web|format=PDF|archive-date=August 1, 2019|access-date=November 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801083907/http://library.cincymuseum.org/starweb/journals/servlet.starweb?path=journals/journals.web|url-status=dead}} * {{cite journal|title=The Cincinnati Post and Municipal Reform, 1914–1941|first=George Edward|last=Stevens|journal=Ohio History|publisher=Ohio Historical Society|volume=79|issue=3–4|date=Summer 1970|pages=231–242|url=http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohj/search/display.php?vol=79&pages=231-242}} * {{cite journal|title=Epilogue For a Lady: The Passing of the Times-Star|first=Robert Jr.|last=Taft|author-link=Robert Taft, Jr.|journal=Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio|volume=18|issue=4|date=October 1960|pages=260–277|oclc=52305709|url=http://library.cincymuseum.org/starweb/journals/servlet.starweb?path=journals/journals.web|format=PDF|archive-date=August 1, 2019|access-date=November 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801083907/http://library.cincymuseum.org/starweb/journals/servlet.starweb?path=journals/journals.web|url-status=dead}}
==External links== {{Commons category|The Cincinnati Post}} *[http://www.kypost.com/ KYPost.com] *{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212164639/http://www.cincypost.com/search/ |date=December 12, 2007 |title=''Cincinnati Post'' Back Issues }}{{spaced ndash}} March 17, 1997{{spaced ndash}} March 28, 2005 *{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213024143/http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=BACK |date=December 13, 2007 |title=''Kentucky Post'' Back Issues }}{{spaced ndash}} March 17, 1997{{spaced ndash}} December 11, 2007 *[http://magazine.uc.edu/media/ringtones/post-march.html Cincinnati Post March]{{spaced ndash}} recording by the University of Cincinnati Bearcat Band
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