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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Digital First Media |
| Publisher | Edward S. Condra[1] |
| Founded | 1945 (1945) |
| Language | American English |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 7,837 Daily 6,869 Sunday (as of 2020) |
| ISSN | 1064-3567 |
| OCLC number | 15342162 |
| Website | www |
The Trentonian is a daily newspaper servingTrenton, New Jersey, USA, and the surroundingMercer County community. The paper in 2020 has a daily circulation of under 8,000 and a Sunday circulation of under 7,000. As of August 2020, it was ranked fourteenth in total circulation among newspapers in New Jersey.[2]
The paper is owned byDigital First Media,[3] a media company headquartered inDenver, Colorado, specializing innewspaperpublishing, which owns 75 daily and several hundred non-daily newspapers in the United States. DFM was formed as a merger between Media News Group (MNG) and Journal Register Company (JRC).
In November 2008, DFM announced that some of its newspapers, including The Trentonian, were being put up for sale. The newspaper's daily price increased 43 percent, from 35 cents to 50 cents. Also, the company announced thatThe Trentonian would no longer be printed in Trenton beginning in January 2009. It will be printed at a JRC-owned facility inExton, Pennsylvania and delivered to Trenton.
The Trentonian was known as a feisty, gritty tabloid from its start in 1945 when 40 members of theInternational Typographical Union broke away from theTrentonTimes to start their paper.[4][5]
When The Washington Post Company bought theTimes in 1975, Katharine Graham vowed to make Trenton a one-paper town. She reportedly would later admit that Trenton was her "Vietnam."[6]
The Trentonian generated community outrage and criticism when it published a front-page headline, “Roasted Nuts!” about a fire at a state institution housing developmentally disabled patients.
The bookTabloid From Hell details what the author considers to be the decline ofThe Trentonian, with much of the blame directed at Robert M. Jelenic, JRC's former CEO, whom the author says spent too much time on discipline and trivial matters, not enough on quality journalism.[full citation needed] A Mary Walton interview inAmerican Journalism Review was also critical of Jelenic.[7]
The1974 Pulitzer Prize forEditorial Writing was awarded toF. Gilman Spencer, editor ofThe Trentonian, "for his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government".[8]
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