Founded: 1817
Employees: 300
Circulation: 48,416 Sunday, 41,019 daily
Our company traces its roots to the Utica Observer, a weekly founded by Eliasaph Dorchester in 1817. The Observer became a daily newspaper in 1848 and, after several mergers with other newspapers, became the Observer-Dispatch in 1922. That was also the year the paper was purchased by Frank E. Gannett, who founded the Gannett Company. Gannett owned the newspaper until 2007, when it was purchased by GateHouse Media, one of the largest publishers of locally based print and online media in the United States.
For a while, we published two daily papers – the Daily Press in the morning and the Observer-Dispatch in the afternoon, and those newspapers were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1959, for an investigation into local corruption.
The two newspapers merged into a single, 7-day morning publication, the Observer-Dispatch, in 1987.
Our company added digital delivery of news and information in January of 2000, when we launched uticaOD.com. We also produce uticaBoilermaker.com, healthyliving.com and fusionweekly.com.
In 2004, we grew again with the acquisition of the Mid York Weekly newspaper, serving Hamilton, N.Y., and seven weekly Pennysaver publications, which are mailed throughout Oneida and Herkimer counties.
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