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Overview
The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, published online as cleveland.com, the Columbus Dispatch and the Cincinnati Enquirer are Ohio's three big city newspapers, and the Dispatch is the main paper for the Statehouse. The Dayton Daily News, the Akron Beacon Journal, the Toledo Blade, the Canton Repository, the Youngstown Vindicator now published by the Tribune Chronicle, the Springfield News-Sun, the Lima News, the Marion Star and the Zanesville Times Recorder cover their regions, and the Ohio Capital Journal covers state government online.
Ohio newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for sheriff's sales, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 88 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the county clerk of courts searches.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Ohio Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Ohio. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major Ohio newspapers and what they cover
The Plain Dealer covers Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and the federal court in Cleveland, with back issues from the 1840s onward in the digital archives. The Dispatch covers Columbus, state government, the Ohio Supreme Court and the federal court in Columbus, and the Enquirer covers Cincinnati, Hamilton County and northern Kentucky. The Beacon Journal covers Akron and Summit County, the Blade covers Toledo and northwest Ohio, and the Dayton Daily News covers Montgomery County and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Ohio's county dailies and weeklies, from the Chillicothe Gazette to the Wooster Daily Record, carry county commissioner minutes, sheriff's reports and probate court notices.
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Historic Ohio newspapers online
Ohio Memory, the digital library of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio, offers free digitized Ohio newspapers from the early 1800s onward, and Ohio titles appear in Chronicling America. The Ohio History Connection's library in Columbus holds newspaper microfilm for every county, and the Cleveland Public Library, the Columbus Metropolitan Library and the Public Library of Cincinnati provide free access to their city's newspaper archives with a library card and keep obituary indexes.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Ohio
Ohio law requires sheriff's sale notices for foreclosures, probate notices to creditors, name changes, delinquent tax lists, unclaimed funds lists and county, township and municipal notices to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the Ohio News Media Association collects them in a statewide search. The dailies and most weeklies in Ohio publish obituaries, and the big city libraries keep obituary indexes. Court coverage pairs with the clerk of courts case searches that nearly every Ohio county posts online.
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Straight answers
Ohio Newspaper Directory, questions
What are Ohio's largest newspapers?
The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com, the Columbus Dispatch and the Cincinnati Enquirer, followed by the Dayton Daily News, the Akron Beacon Journal, the Toledo Blade and the Canton Repository.
Where are historic Ohio newspapers online?
Ohio Memory offers free digitized Ohio newspapers from the early 1800s onward, Chronicling America adds more, and the Ohio History Connection holds every county on microfilm.
Where are Ohio sheriff's sale notices published?
In a newspaper of general circulation in the county, collected in the Ohio News Media Association's statewide public notice search.