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Lebanon Daily News is a local daily newspaper based in Lebanon County, a small rural town in northeast Pennsylvania. The main office is located on 718 Poplar Street.^[1] It publishes as an afternoon paper Monday through Friday and as a morning paper on Saturday and Sunday.

The current newsstand price for the daily and Saturday papers is 50¢ while the Sunday paper is $1.50. Subscribing for eight weeks costs $14.80, while 12 weeks costs $22.21, 24 weeks costs $44.42, and 50 weeks costs $88.84. ^[2] The paper is one of five in Pennsylvania owned by MediaNews Group, the second largest media company in the U.S. generally centralized around newpapers. According to MediaNews Group, Lebanon, PA circulates up to 50,000 papers.^[3]

The content of Lebanon Daily News is essentially split up into seven different subjects: news, opinion, sports, business, lifestyles, obituaries, and entertainment. Oftentimes the stories are centered around notable people within the community of Lebanon.

Publisher: Scott Downs
Controller: Kevin Madden
Managing and Specialty News Editor: Paul Baker
Media Sales Manager: ShaunJude McCoach
Circulation Director: Jarrod Lash
Customer Service Manager: Becky Arnold
School & University News and Military & Community News; City Editor: Karol Gress
Church, Business & Farm News: Jeff Clouser
Wedding, Anniversary, Engagement & Birth Annoucements, Society News, Club News: Bill Warner
Sports: Mike Givler
Technology & Computer News, Editorial Page Editor: Rahn Forney
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The paper is available for viewing online. The website lists all the current content on its homepage, and all past stories are available for viewing in its archives. A calendar of events in Lebanon is available, as well as real estate, auto listings, classifieds, and jobs. There is an RSS feed available, and one can register their mobile phone on the site to get updates about the Lebanon Daily News. Subscribers can also opt to make “E-Edition” available, which makes Lebanon Daily News viewable on the computer exactly as it appears in print.

The paper is not very well known because the county of Lebanon is so small and off the radar; however, Lebanon Daily News has indeed been mentioned in a few instances outside of Lebanon.

Michael A. Raffaele, editor of the Lebanon Daily News, wrote a book called Iron Editor: How to Save Newspapers from Advocacy Journalism. The book is essentially about Raffaele’s experiences working for multiple papers, including the Lebanon Daily News, so it gives an insider’s viewpoint on the paper.^[5]

Russ Diamond’s Tip of the Spear: A Unique Perspective on Pennsylvania’s Political Revolution lists the Lebanon Daily News as a reference multiple times throughout the book. Lebanon Daily News published numerous comments on Diamond’s status as a politician.^[6]

Due to a mass increase in dependence on technology, newspapers are declining. There are other news sources that people tend to find more convenient, such as the internet or the television. This is hitting local newspapers hard, including Lebanon Daily News, because local news is not viewed as equally important to world news, and general society is thus looking to these other electronic sources for their news coverage. The result in this is a decline of community and local awareness, since these electronic sources only cover national and world news and rarely cover local news.