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A gazette is an official journal, a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper. In English and French speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the name Gazette since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers bear the name The Gazette .
The Gazette published weekly community newspapers serving Montgomery, Prince George's, Frederick, and Carroll counties in Maryland, including a subscription-based weekend edition covering business and politics throughout the state. The group of papers consistently won awards from the Suburban Newspapers of America, and regional awards.
The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as The Oxford Gazette. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The claim to being oldest is also made by the Stamford Mercury (1712) and Berrow's Worcester Journal (1690).
The Daily Gazette, from 1902 to 1989 Schenectady Gazette, is an independent, family-owned [2] daily newspaper published in Schenectady, New York. [3] The Daily Gazette also owns and operates The Amsterdam Recorder , The Gloversville Leader-Herald and Your Niskayuna .
Arizona Weekly Republican – Phoenix in the 1890s [37] List of newspapers in Arizona; Arizona's Negro Journal – Tucson in the 1940s [38] The Arizonian (newspaper) – Scottsdale in the 1950s and 1960s [39] Bisbee Daily Review (Bisbee, Arizona) (1901–1971) [40] The Bachelor's Beat; The Border Vidette (Nogales, Arizona) (1894-1934) [41 ...
The Montreal Daily News adopted a tabloid format and introduced a Sunday edition, forcing The Gazette to respond. After the Montreal Daily News closed in 1989, after less than two years in operation, The Gazette kept its Sunday edition going until August 2010. In 1996, the Southam papers were bought by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc.
The National Gazette, founded to counterbalance the Gazette of the United States, was the first American party newspaper [50] and influenced other newspapers to link themselves to political parties. [58] Partisan newspapers like the two gazettes, while fundamentally political, were private and had to support themselves through commercial means.
The gazette also published advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants. [11] Among other firsts by The Pennsylvania Gazette, the newspaper was the first to publish the political cartoon Join, or Die, authored by Franklin. [12] The cartoon resurfaced later in the 18th century as a symbol in support of the American Revolution.