The Blade (newspaper)

Infobox Newspaper
name = The Blade


caption = The July 27, 2005 front page of
"The Blade"
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1835
ceased publication =
price =
owners = Block Communications
publisher =
editor = Ron Royhab
circulation = 125,956 Daily
154,566 Sunday [cite web | title=2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation |publisher=Burrelles"Luce" |url=http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2007-05-31 |date=2007-03-31]
headquarters = 541 North Superior Street
Toledo, Ohio 43660
USA
ISSN =
website = [http://toledoblade.com/ toledoblade.com]

"The Blade" is a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, first published on December 19, 1835. It was originally known as "The Toledo Times". [ [http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=4446 With a clue (Metro Times Detroit) ] ]

Overview

David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the civil war era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Writing under the pen name, Locke wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery to the Civil War to temperance. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them. In 1867 Locke bought "The Blade".

In 2004 "The Blade" won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with a series of stories entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths". The story brought to light the story of the Tiger Force, a Vietnam fighting force that brutalized the local population. In 2006, "The Blade" was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the National Headliner Award, for breaking the scandal in Ohio known as Coingate.

Its current editor in chief is John Robinson Block, whose family purchased the paper in 1926 and who also own the media conglomerate Block Communications, which owns cable systems, television stations, and an Internet service network, Buckeye Express.

According to the 2005 World Almanac, "The Blade" has the 81st largest newspaper circulation in the U.S..

The Toledo "Blade" was named for the famed swordsmithing industry of the original city of Toledo, Spain.

Events

In 2007 "Blade" photojournalist Allan Detrich left the "Blade" when it was discovered that he had digitally altered a photo that was published on the front page of the March 31, 2007 edition. A subsequent investigation revealed that he had digitally altered and submitted 79 photos during the first 14 weeks of 2007, 58 of which ran either in the "Blade" or on its website. [cite news |first=Ron |last=Winslow |title=Toledo Blade's Detrich Resigns Over Digitally Altered Photograph |url=http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/04/toledo03.html |work=News Photographer magazine |publisher=National Press Photographers Association |date=2008-04-09 |accessdate=2008-05-12 ] [cite news |first=Ron |last=Royhab |title=A basic rule: Newspaper photos must tell the truth |url=http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/NEWS08/704150316/-1/NEWS |work= |publisher=ToledoBlade.com |date=2008-04-15 |accessdate=2008-05-12 ]

Members of several unions worked without contracts from March–August 2006. Over the course of August 2006, The Blade locked out over 25% of all of its employees. It has been reported on national news sites that approximately 215 employees remain locked out. [http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070529/blade_unions.html?.v=1] Notable in the labor dispute is former WTOL anchor Jeff Heitz, who was the spokesman representing "The Blade"'s management.

References

External links

* [http://www.toledoblade.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.blockcommunications.com/ Block Communications]
* [http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=5054 Story on Labor Disputes]