 Daily Item headquarters in Sunbury | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | CNHI, LLC |
| Publisher | Charles (Chip) Minemyer |
| Editor | William Bowman |
| Founded | 1872 (asThe Sunbury Daily) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 200 Market Street,Sunbury, Pennsylvania 17801U.S. |
| Circulation | Approx 10,500 Weekdays, 12,500 Sunday |
| Price | $2.00 Daily $3.50 Sunday |
| Website | dailyitem.com |
The Daily Item is adaily newspaper inSunbury, Pennsylvania, covering theCentral Susquehanna Valley Region. It is owned byCommunity Newspaper Holdings Inc.
The Sunbury Daily (founded 1872) andThe Evening Item (1893) merged July 1, 1936. Publishing five afternoons per week,The Daily Item was owned by the Dewart family and other local investors until April 15, 1970, whenOttaway Community Newspapers purchased it. Ottaway streamlined and upgraded the newspaper. It built new presses in 1979 and introduced Saturday and Sunday morning editions in the late 1980s. In 2001, the paper boughtThe Danville News.[1]
Community Newspaper Holdings boughtThe Daily Item andThe Danville News in late 2006 fromOttaway Community Newspapers, a division ofDow Jones & Company.[2]
In May 2015, the newspaper published a letter to the editor calling for the execution of US PresidentBarack Obama. The newspaper later apologized.[3]