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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hello! This page is very out of date so I'd like to have some edits made. I've never done this before, so I just pasted the whole page's content here, and I'll make comments in bold and italics, paragraph by paragraph:

This paragraph is fine.

LNP is a daily newspaper headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The newspaper is published by the LNP Media Group, a division of the family-owned Steinman Enterprises. First published under its present name on October 14, 2014, LNP traces its roots to one of the oldest newspapers in the U.S., The Lancaster Journal, which dates back to 1794. The newspaper's broadsheet print edition is published in the morning, seven days per week. The paper's online counterpart is LancasterOnline.com. The online edition of the newspaper is currently blocked to European visitors as a response by LancasterOnline.com to the 2018 EEA data privacy regulations popularly known as GDPR.

LNP is the third-largest daily circulation print newspaper in the state of Pennsylvania, as of December 2016.

This paragraph is fine.

History[edit]

In 2009, Lancaster's two daily newspapers, the morning Intelligencer Journal and the evening Lancaster New Era, which were both published by Lancaster Newspapers (present-day LNP Media Group) and headquartered in the same building, were merged to form the Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era. Though the Sunday sister paper, the Sunday News, joined the combined newsroom in 2012, it continued to be published under the same masthead until the rebranding in October 2014.

This paragraph needs changes because it contains incorrect (outdated) information: 1) The tagline "Always Lancaster" is no longer in use, thus that sentence should be removed, or changed to say: Under its current masthead, LNP has the tagline LancasterOnline, to reinforce the connection to its news website, LancasterOnline.com., 2) The word "slogan" should be changed to "brand name".

In 2014, the Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era, as well as the Sunday News, were combined, rebranded, and renamed LNP. The first issue of the newly renamed LNP was published on October 16, 2014. Under its current masthead, LNP adopted the tagline Always Lancaster. The rebranding was "aimed at representing and embracing the history of Lancaster County," the brand and the audience, according to the publisher. The slogan also alludes to the abbreviation that was used to refer to "Lancaster Newspapers" for much of the latter part of the 20th century. The paper was redesigned to include a more visually-appealing format and more user-friendly sections and pages.

LNP's current newsroom includes journalists from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News.

This paragraph needs changes because contains incorrect (outdated) information. The first sentence is fine, but the rest needs to change to this: LNP newspapers were printed for a few years at a newer facility owned by Advance Central Services Pennsylvania, approximately 50 miles northwest of Lancaster. The move allowed LNP to print an additional 60,000 newspapers on weekdays, as well as 80,000 more papers for its Sunday edition. Starting in July 2020, newspaper printing was moved back in-house to Susquehanna Printing, in Lancaster County.

In May 2015, LNP closed its newspaper printing facility in downtown Lancaster, citing the need to improve print quality and upgrade full color options required for every page in the newspaper. LNP newspapers are now printed at a newer facility owned by Advance Central Services Pennsylvania and the PA Media Group in Hampden Township, Pennsylvania, approximately 50 miles northwest of Lancaster. The move allowed LNP to print an additional 60,000 newspapers on weekdays, as well as 80,000 more papers for its Sunday edition.

The Endorsements sentence only mentions a single endorsement for a newspaper that has existed for 225+ years, and made hundreds of endorsements, thus making this a misleading section. The section should be removed, or it should be amended to include all the other endorsements that were done over the years. Or, it might be simplest to state that "The LNP Editorial board no longer endorses political candidates as-of 2017."

Endorsements[edit]

On October 18, 2016, LNP's editorial board endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in the 2016 presidential election.

The Political Positions paragraph should be removed because it is not accurate to presume an entire political position based on a single opinion piece. The Editorial board has issued hundreds of such pieces over the years, if not thousands, with a variety of viewpoints.

Political Positions[edit]

The LNP Editorial Board does not support the legalization of adult-use cannabis in Pennsylvania. The board had this to say in an Oct 2019 opinion piece: "We realize our stance will displease some LNP readers. Sixty-seven percent of the 2,028 Lancaster County residents who called, emailed or mailed comments to Lt. Gov. Fetterman during his 67-county marijuana listening tour were in favor of legalization. But the LNP Editorial Board aims to be a voice, not an echo. And we’re using our voice to say that legalization is a lousy idea."

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Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup (talk) 20:58, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup, thank you for the suggestions. I definitely think that we can work with some of these, but first need some additional information. Could you provide references to reliable sources for the proposed changes? For example, stating that the "The LNP Editorial board no longer endorses political candidates as of 2017." would need a reference. This could be a news article, and would recommend you use the {{cite news}} template to organize the information in the references, such as author, date, access date, publisher, etc. For now I have marked the request as answered, but when you provide references for the changes, please remove the "|A" from {{request edit}} at the top of this section to reopen your request, and an editor can come by and review it. Best, Spencer^T•C 23:21, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spencer - I got so frustrated last year that I gave up on these updates. This page has again been brought to my attention as being outdated, so I'll try one more time, even though I'm afraid I'll end up back in the Kafka-esque situation of being asked to prove the unprovable. With regard to the statement "The LNP Editorial board no longer endorses political candidates as of 2017", would it help if it was rephrased to "Since 2017, LNP has not published any endorsements of political candidates." As I stated previously, there was never any official announcement about this change, so there is no source to cite. But, it is true that anyone who does a Google search like "LNP political candidate endorsements" won't find any endorsements from LNP, because there haven't been any. I don't know what further I can do. The sad part here is that there is just so much that you are leaving on these pages that is just flat-out wrong, as I originally posted. But, at least I have a citation for a new change which is that LNP is no longer owned by Steinman Communications, it is now owned by WITF: https://www.witf.org/2023/04/28/what-you-need-to-know-about-witfs-new-partnership-with-lnp-lancasteronline/. But all the other inaccuracies remain. What do you propose we can do, to make this page accurate? Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup (talk) 17:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since I'm back onto this issue, I may as well also mention that there are ton of inaccuracies on this related page: LNP Media Group. For example: 1) We no longer publish the Elizabethtown Advocate, La Voz Lancaster, The Sunday News, The Caucus, and Fly After 5. 2) LNP Media Group is no longer owned by Steinman Communications, it's owned by WITF https://www.witf.org/2023/04/28/what-you-need-to-know-about-witfs-new-partnership-with-lnp-lancasteronline/. 3) Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup (talk) 17:49, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]