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The paper was founded in 1837 and is currently owned by Tribune Publishing. The Baltimore Sun is the largest daily newspaper in Maryland and owns the Capital Gazette and the Carroll County Times. The paper has its website launched in September 1996 and was redesigned in June 2009. Each month from January through June, an average of 3.5 million visitors read the web page.

William M. Abbott, a former compositor for The Baltimore Sun, founded the newspaper in 1884 as the Evening Capital and operated under this name until June 20, 1981 when it was shortened to The Capital. In 1910, Abbott purchased the weekly Maryland Gazette from Phillip E. Porter and merged the paper with The Capital and later it became the Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette. Abbott handed over the ownership of the paper to Ridgely P. Melvin in 1919 and was reverted to its original name, Evening Capital in 1922. Melvin sold the Capital to the Capital-Gazette Press Company in 1926. The newspaper was eventually sold to Phillip Merrill and Landmark Communications, who shared ownership in 1967. The Landmark Communications obtained full ownership of the paper from 2006 to 2014, when the Capital were sold to the Baltimore Sun Media Group. The change to a seven-day-a-week morning paper was implemented on March 9.

The Daily Record is a statewide business and legal newspaper which is published five days a week, except for certain holidays. The paper was founded by Edwin Warfield in 1888 as a court and commercial paper. The Daily Record received the National Newspaper Association’s 2007 General Excellence Award, Maryland Daily Division.

The first edition of the Montgomery Sentinel was published on August 11, 1855, as a partisan newspaper supporting the newly formed Democratic Party by Matthew Fields. After his death, his wife Rebecca ran the paper until 1930 after which the paper was sold to a succession of local families, and it long served as a proving ground for journalists. Its sister paper, the Prince George Sentinel, was in its 88th year of publication. Both papers saw its revenue decline, from a circulation of around 200,000 in the 1990s to about 5,000 in each county. Sadly, both papers have ended publication after 164 years.

Thomas Perrin founded the paper as The Republican and then The Star. In 1801, Smith bought the property where The Republican would print and would use as his office and residence. The Star was known as The Republican Star and Eastern Shore Political Luminary sometime between the beginning of the newspaper and 1802. The newspaper bough the Eastern Shore General Advertiser in 1814 and became known as The Republican Star and Eastern Shore Advertiser. The newspaper’s name was changed to The Republican Star on September 20, 1814. The Star bought Whig & Advocate in 1841 and the newspaper was turned over to George W. Sherwood. Sherwood bought the Eastern-Shore Star and he turned over the newspaper to T.K Robson in 1843. Robson bought The Easton Star. Sometime between 1889 and 1896, the newspaper purchased the Easton Democrat. In 1896, The Republican Star and Eastern Shore Political Luminary merged with The Democrat, a rival newspaper, to become The Star-Democrat.

The Cumberland Times-News, which has existed under various titles, dates back to the early 19th century. Aside from the paper’s headquarters in Cumberland, the company also maintained satellite offices in Frostburg and McHenry, Maryland and in Keyser, West Virginia. However, the Keyser office closed in March of 2009 in order to cut costs for the newspaper. Times-News also launched a subscription-based weekend edition covering business and politics region wide and statewide. In 1986, Thomson Newspapers purchased Times-News from the McMullen Family. And in 2000, Community Newspaper Holdings acquired the Times-News.

The Morning Herald was the first daily newspaper in Hagerstown, and started its publication in 1873. The Mail began in 1828 but was not a daily paper, The Daily Mail, until 1890. The two papers merged in 1920 and were purchased in 1960 by Schurz Communications of South Bend, Indiana. The Herald-Mail has two weekday newspapers: The Morning Herald, in the morning and The Daily Mail in the afternoon. The newspaper company combined the two weekday papers on October 1, 2007 and became The Herald-Mail.

The paper was first published as The News, an evening newspaper by a Frederick printing company, that would eventually become The Frederick News-Post. This paper discusses local, international, regional and national news. The subscription for the Frederick News-Post ranges from $3.25 to $5.99 per week.

The Carroll County Times was founded as The Times on October 6, 1911. George Mather, owner and publisher, sold The Times in 1947. The newspaper expanded and in 1956 it became the Carroll County Times. The paper was a twice weekly paper when purchased by Landmark Community Newspapers in 1974. It also started publishing five days a week in 1980. And eventually began publishing seven days a week and added home delivery in 1987.

Palmer Chamberlain Ricketts founded the Cecil Whig in 1841 when local Whig Party supporters in Elkton, Maryland decided to launch a newspaper in the aftermath of William Henry Harrisons’ presidential victory. The paper is one of the country’s oldest newspapers. It is also the oldest newspaper on Maryland Eastern Shore and is still publishing under its original name.