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The Plain Dealer traces its origins to 1831 when it operated as The Cleveland Advertiser. Joseph William Gray and Admiral Nelson Gray purchased the publication in January 1842 and renamed it The Plain Dealer that same month.
Advance Publications Inc., owned by Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.'s heirs, currently owns The Plain Dealer. The Holden trustees sold the newspaper on the 1st of March 1967 for $54.2 million which was the highest price ever paid for a U.S. newspaper at that time.
Daily circulation fell from 334,194 in 2007 to zero reporters by 2020 while Sunday print circulation dropped to just 37,000 copies as of 2023. Between 2007 and 2019 the paper lost 79% of its daily circulation and 62% of its Sunday circulation due to rising expenses and economic conditions.
Paul Bellamy served as editor from 1933 to 1954 followed by Wright Bryan who held the position from 1954 to 1963. Thomas Vail edited and published from 1963 to 1992 before Susan Goldberg took over from 2007 until 2010 and Debra Adams Simmons served until 2014.
The newspaper ceased publishing its weekly Sunday Magazine on the 18th of December 2005 after it had existed since 1919. Rising expenses and a poor economy contributed to that decision which Editor Doug Clifton stated would integrate stories into other areas.