Toledo Blade
The Blade is a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, in the United States, first published on December 19, 1835. David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the Civil War era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Writing under the pen name, Locke wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery to the Civil War to temperance. In 1867 Locke bought The Blade. In 2004 The Blade won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with a series of stories entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths". . In 2006, The Blade was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the National Headliner Award, for breaking the scandal in Ohio known as Coingate. Its current editor in chief is John Robinson Block, whose family purchased the paper in 1926. The Blade has the 83rd largest daily newspaper circulation in the United States. On a daily basis, the circulation averages 119,901 and 141,141 on Sundays. It is owned by Block Communications and edited by Ron Royhab.
