The Gazette (Janesville, Wisconsin)

The GazetteType| Daily newspaper

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Format| Broadsheet
Owner(s)| Adams Publishing Group
Editor| Karyn Saemann
Founded| 1845
Headquarters| 1 S. Parker Drive, Janesville, Wisconsin, 53545
Circulation| 10,251 (as of 2022)[1]
Website| gazettextra.com

The Gazette is a daily newspaper in Janesville, Wisconsin. The newspaper is owned by Adams Publishing Group.[2]

## History

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The Gazette was established on August 14, 1845, by Levi Alden and E. A. Stoddard. It was initially a Whig partisan newspaper and published only a weekly edition. Alden owned it for the first decade in partnership with a number of different prominent Rock County Whigs until selling his remaining ownership to his last partner, Charles Holt, in 1855. The paper passed through a number of other owners before being purchased by Howard Bliss in he 1880s.[3]

It was sold to Adams Publishing Group in 2019; prior to then, it had been owned by the Bliss family for 136 years.[4] While it had previously published every day of the week, the newspaper suspended its Saturday and Sunday editions in June 2020 due to the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

## References

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1. ^ 2023 Wisconsin Newspaper Directory. Wisconsin Newspaper Association. 2023.
2. ^ "Our Markets". Adams Publishing Group. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
3. ^ Brown, William Fiske (1908). Rock County, Wisconsin. Vol. 2\. C. F. Cooper & Co. p. 538. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
4. ^ Romell, Rick (June 3, 2019). "The Gazette, Janesville's daily newspaper, will be sold after 136 years in the Bliss family". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
5. ^ Johnson, Neil (May 6, 2020). "The Gazette to cease Saturday, Sunday print editions". The Gazette. Retrieved July 22, 2020.

## External links

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* GazetteXtra