York Daily Record/sunday News history

The Gazette was taken over by David Small in 1836.

Prominent businessman Adam Geesey converted The Gazette into a daily publication in 1887.

In 1915, Allen C. Wiest and law partner J.W. Gitt acquired the foundering Gazette, which began Gitt's 55-year reign as Gazette owner.

In 1918, The Gazette was renamed The Gazette and Daily.

The Gazette and Daily had become a tab in 1943 because of newsprint shortages during World War II.

After nearly 150 years of continuous publication, the paper shut down in 1970 because of labor problems.

In 1973, The Daily Record was sold to Jimmy D. Scoggins, a veteran newspaperman, who changed the paper's format from tabloid to its current broadsheet form.

Buckner News Alliance purchased the newspaper from Scoggins in 1978 and modernized the paper's appearance and operations.

MediaNews Group, owner of The York Dispatch, purchased the York Sunday News in 1988.

The United States Justice Department approved the JOA in 1990, creating the York Newspaper Co. to manage merged production, circulation and advertising departments.

In 2004, Buckner News Alliance sold the York Daily Record to MediaNews Group, which also owned the York Sunday News the news organization operated as the York Daily Record/Sunday News.

In September 2011, MediaNews Group, parent company of the Daily Record, announced it had appointed John Paton as CEO, and entered into an agreement with Digital First Media.