The Plain Dealer, Newspaper headquarters in Cleveland, United States
The Plain Dealer is a daily newspaper serving Cleveland and northeast Ohio from its office on Superior Avenue. The newsroom operates in a modern building that produces stories for print editions and digital formats under Cleveland.com.
Joseph William Gray and Admiral Nelson Gray founded this publication in 1842, taking over readers from The Cleveland Advertiser. The paper grew over the following decades to become the city's leading daily.
The title comes from an old expression for honest tradesmen in 19th-century America. Visitors today can see this paper's connection to daily life through neighborhood doorstep deliveries and public library reading rooms.
The office building sits in downtown Cleveland and is not open to the public for tours. Visitors interested in journalism or local media can read stories and coverage online through the Cleveland.com website.
This paper has operated without local competition since the 1980s, shaping the news landscape of Cleveland alone. Two other major newspapers in the city closed before that, leaving this one as the sole survivor.
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