The Plain Dealer

The Plain Dealer is a daily newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. It belongs to the media group Advance Publications, has around 300,000 sold copies on weekdays and 400,000 on Sundays, the highest circulation newspaper in Ohio. The newspaper has twice won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for a cartoon and 2005 in the comment.

The Plain Dealer first appeared on January 7, 1842, first as a weekly, from April 7, 1845, finally as a daily evening paper. As of March 16, 1885 an additional morning edition appeared. After the end of the evening edition of the Plain Dealer in 1905 was finally to pure morning newspaper that it is today.

The Plain Dealer originally stood close to the Democrats. Around 1940 was a clear political swing towards the Republicans. However, this was exactly opposite to the political movements in the city, the majority turned away during the New Deal of the Republicans and was a stronghold of the Democrats. In the early 1960s but was again achieved by re- restructuring of the editorial staff a certain political balance.

In the following years the Plain Dealer rose in the region the largest daily newspaper. In 1968 he overtook the then leading newspaper, the Cleveland Press. Since the cessation of 1982, the Plain Dealer is now the only remaining daily newspaper in the Cleveland area.

The editors of the Plain Dealer provides most messages for regional news site cleveland.com, which is also part of Advance Publications.