Ambler Gazette

The Ambler Gazette is a weekly newspaper serving Ambler, Pennsylvania and the surrounding community. It has a circulation of 7,000.[1] It is owned by Digital First Media.[2]

Ambler Gazette
TypeWeekly Newspaper
Owner(s)Digital First Media
PublisherEdward S. Condra
EditorAnn Cornell
Founded1882
Headquarters307 Derstine Ave., Lansdale, Pennsylvania, United States
Circulation7,000
OCLC number13448090
Websitewww.montgomerynews.com/amblergazette/

History

Founded in 1882,[3] six years before the borough of Ambler was incorporated,[4] the Gazette was the successor to the Ambler Times, which had been founded in 1879 by Dr. Rose.[5] Irwin S. Weber took over the paper in 1882 and renamed it Ambler Gazette.[5] Arthur K. Thomas took over the paper in 1885 and, in 1886, after a fire destroyed the paper's printing plant, he opened a larger printing facility.[6] In 1898 Thomas sold the Gazette to J. Morris Haywood. Haywood ran the paper for more than 38 years.[7] Mrs. J. Maurice Haywood (Elizabeth Godfrey Haywood) continued to publish the paper until her death in 1951.[8]

In 1952, Bill Strasburg purchased the Gazette.[9] He later founded the Montgomery Publishing company in 1954, and over time purchased 15 local weeklies. He sold the company in 1989.

In 2001, the Montgomery Publishing Company was sold to Journal Register Co., which was later acquired by Digital First Media which, in turn, is owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital.[10] After the sale of the company to Journal Register Co., former Publisher Arthur W. Howe sued his former business partners for allegedly cutting him out of profits from the sale.[11]

References
  1. "Ambler Gazette". Mondo Times. Mondo Times.
  2. "Rotten Situation for Area Newspapers". Philadelphia Daily News. 16 May 2018.
  3. "About The Ambler gazette". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  4. Quattrone, Frank D. (2004). Ambler. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738534831.
  5. Bean, Theodore Weber (1884). History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Unigraphic.
  6. "The Ambler Gazette has been sold". The Bucks County Gazette. 17 February 1898.
  7. "Joseph M. Haywood". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 28 Mar 1936.
  8. "Publisher Dies". Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News. 29 March 1951.
  9. "William Strasburg, 90, newspaper publisher". Philadelphia Daily News. 10 November 2017.
  10. O'Connell, Jonathan (2019-04-17). "The hedge fund trying to buy Gannett faces federal probe after investing newspaper workers' pensions in its own funds". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  11. E&P Staff. "Former Montgomery Publisher Sues – Editor & Publisher". Retrieved 2019-06-24.
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