The Daily Advocate

The Advocate was founded by W.A. Browne, Sr. as an eight-page weekly newspaper in May 1883.^[2] Browne converted it to daily publication around January 1893, as the Daily Advocate.^[3]

Browne sold the paper to The Thomson Corporation, a Canadian publisher, which later sold it to Brown Publishing Company in 1996.^[4]

Brown, a Cincinnati-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010.^[5] The company, including the Daily Advocate, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.^[6]

In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, the former Freedom papers it had acquired, Impressions Media, and Heartland Publications into a new company, Civitas Media.^[7] Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.^[8] In 2019, AIM Media Midwest purchased the Greenville Earlybird, a Sunday only free-distribution newspaper in the area. The consolidation of the two publications now offers its advertising customers publishing capabilities Tuesdays through Fridays and Sundays each week.

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