Scripps To Cease Publication Of the Cincinnati Post
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CINCINNATI — The E.W. Scripps Co. said yesterday it will end publication of the Cincinnati Post and the Kentucky Post on December 31, when a joint operating agreement with Gannett Co. and the Cincinnati Enquirer expires.
The Cincinnati Post dates to 1881, and once had a circulation 10 times greater than the current 27,000 weekday subscribers.
Gannett, a newspaper and broadcasting company based in McLean, Va., gave notification three years ago that it would not renew the 1977 agreement, in which it was responsible for business operations of the Post newspapers, including advertising and subscription sales, production, and distribution.
Cincinnati-based Scripps has maintained an independent editorial department at the Post but doesn’t have advertising and circulation sales staffs or other production and business employees, nor printing capability.
Scripps and Gannett have shared the combined profits of the newspapers.
“It’s always a difficult decision to cease publication of a newspaper, especially two with such fine traditions of journalistic excellence and community service as the Cincinnati Post and the Kentucky Post,” the chief operating officer for Scripps, Rich Boehne, said in a statement.
