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The first issue of The Cincinnati Enquirer appeared on the 10th of April 1841. It contained four pages of dense text with a harsh tone and was created by John Brough and Charles Brough who purchased a predecessor called the Phoenix.
Washington McLean acquired an interest in The Cincinnati Enquirer in 1848 and became a leading Copperhead whose editorial policies led to government suppression during the Civil War. His son John Roll McLean assumed full ownership in 1881 after buying out his father and held the paper until his death in 1916.
The settlement required The Cincinnati Enquirer to pay Chiquita fourteen million dollars for voicemail hacking allegations made in the Chiquita Secrets Revealed series published on the 3rd of May 1998. The newspaper also published a three-day-long front-page retraction and destroyed any evidence gathered against the company.
The Enquirer endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on the 24th of September 2016 which marked its first endorsement of a Democrat since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. This decision ended a period from 1920 to 2012 where the editorial board had endorsed every Republican candidate for United States president.
On the 10th of April 2000, The Cincinnati Enquirer downsized from a traditional broadsheet format to a smaller size similar to Berliner and began publishing in color daily. In March 2013, the paper began publishing in a smaller compact tabloid format after Gannett closed its West End printing facility and contracted with The Columbus Dispatch.