The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Enquirer front page on March 6, 2019
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Gannett
EditorBeryl Love
Founded1841
(183 years ago) (1841)
HeadquartersCincinnati, Ohio
Circulation
  • 22,242 daily
  • 33,281 Sunday
(as of 2023)[1]
OCLC number41881827
Websitecincinnati.com

The Cincinnati Enquirer is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. First published in 1841, the Enquirer is the last remaining daily newspaper in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, although the daily Journal-News competes with the Enquirer in the northern suburbs. The Enquirer has the highest circulation of any print publication in the Cincinnati metropolitan area. A daily local edition for Northern Kentucky is published as The Kentucky Enquirer. The Enquirer won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for its project titled "Seven Days of Heroin".[2][3]

In addition to the Cincinnati Enquirer and Kentucky Enquirer, Gannett publishes a variety of print and electronic periodicals in the Cincinnati area, including 16 Community Press weekly newspapers, 10 Community Recorder weekly newspapers, and OurTown magazine. The Enquirer is available online at the Cincinnati.com website. In the 1864 presidential election, the newspaper opposed the reelection of Abraham Lincoln. On his second inauguration the paper wrote, "Mr. Lincoln commences today, a second term unfettered by constitutional restraint as if he were the Czar of Russia or the Sultan of Turkey."[4] From 1920 to 2012, the editorial board endorsed every Republican candidate for United States president. By contrast, the current editorial board claims to take a pragmatic editorial stance. According to then-editor Peter Bhatia, "It is made up of pragmatic, solution-driven members who, frankly, don't have much use for extreme ideologies from the right or the left. ... The board's mantra in our editorials has been about problem-solving and improving the quality of life for everyone in greater Cincinnati."[5] On September 24, 2016, the Enquirer endorsed Hillary Clinton for president,[6] its first endorsement of a Democrat for president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.[5] The Kentucky Enquirer consists of an additional section wrapped around the Cincinnati Enquirer and a remade Local section. The front page is remade from the Ohio edition, although it may contain similar elements.

Reader-submitted content is featured in six zoned editions of Your HomeTown Enquirer, a local news insert published twice-weekly on Thursdays and Saturdays in Hamilton, Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties.[7] Since September 2015, the Enquirer and local Fox affiliate WXIX-TV have partnered on news gathering and have shared news coverage and video among the paper, broadcasts, and online media.[8] In 2016, the Enquirer launched a true crime podcast called Accused that reached the top of iTunes' podcasts chart.

Under then-editor Peter Bhatia, the Enquirer became the first newsroom in the nation to dedicate a reporter to covering the heroin epidemic full time.[9] That reporter, Terry DeMio, and reporter Dan Horn helped lead a staff of about 60 journalists to report the heroin project that won the newspaper its second Pulitzer Prize.[10] The award was the first the newsroom won for its reporting, but its second win overall. The first Pulitzer win was awarded to Jim Borgman for editorial cartoons in 1991.[11]

  1. ^ "Subscription local media organizations" (PDF). Gannett. p. 10.
  2. ^ "Enquirer "Seven Days of Heroin" reporter shares stories behind Pulitzer Prize-winning story". The MSN. August 31, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  3. ^ "Cincinnati newspaper wins Pulitzer for heroin reporting". The Seattle Times. April 16, 2018. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  4. ^ Edward, Achorn (March 3, 2020). Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln (Kindle ed.). Atlantic Monthly Press. p. 2364.
  5. ^ a b Bhatia, Peter (September 23, 2016). "Why we're endorsing for president". The Cincinnati Enquirer.
  6. ^ "Editorial: It has to be Hillary Clinton". The Cincinnati Enquirer. September 24, 2016.
  7. ^ "Page and Photo Reprints". Cincinnati.com Company. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  8. ^ Kiesewetter, John (September 15, 2016). "Enquirer-WXIX-TV News Sharing Agreement Finalized". WVXU. Cincinnati Public Radio. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
  9. ^ Kristen Hare (April 16, 2018). "Two years ago, the Cincinnati Enquirer started covering heroin as a beat. Today, it won a Pulitzer for it". www.poynter.org.
  10. ^ "The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local Reporting". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  11. ^ "1991 Pulitzer Prizes". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved September 13, 2018.