syracuse.com history

By 1898, the Courier had stopped publishing in the morning and became an afternoon newspaper.

1, 1899, Syracusans woke up and found a new newspaper on their doorsteps - the first issue of The Post-Standard.

By 1900, Syracuse had a population of 135,000 and the publication had a "sworn circulation" of 17,575 daily, 12,571 semi-weekly and 15,195 on Sunday.

In 1901, The Post-Standard began publishing a Sunday edition.

In 1906, Jerome D. Barnum, a local high school student, was hired to report local school news.

In 1911, Barnum bought a portion of The Post-Standard Co.

In 1915, he bought Gardner's 33 percent share of the company and became the new publisher.

In 1917, the Sunday edition was brought back and stayed.

In 1939, S.I. Newhouse bought The Post-Standard's chief competitors, the Evening Herald and the Journal.

He bought The Post-Standard in 1944.

Owens resigned as president and publisher of The Post-Standard in 1950.

In May 1965, The Post-Standard's Sunday edition became part of the Herald American, and the search for a new home for The Syracuse Newspapers began.

The company, under then Director of New Media Stan Linhorst, started Syracuse.com in November 1994.

At first, the website was branded Syracuse OnLine and until the summer of 1995 operated on a server hosted at syr.edu.