The Star-Gazette and stargazette.com are the hometown newspaper and website for Elmira, New York, and the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. The print newspaper is distributed six days a week, with a digital eNewspaper delivered daily.
Our website, stargazette.com, together with our mobile and tablet digital platforms, provides a hub for breaking news, growth & development, food & drink, local and national sports, and investigative and explanatory journalism.
Our award-winning team of locally based reporters and editors cover Elmira and surrounding areas in the Southern Tier and the Finger Lakes region, statewide news and more. We deliver exclusive and unparalleled coverage of Section 4 high school athletics.
News is published regularly online every day, and in the daily print and eNewspaper. The Star-Gazette sends several newsletters, which readers can subscribe to here. The Daily Briefing, our most popular newsletter, goes out daily at around 6 a.m. and features the biggest stories of the day.
When was the Star-Gazette founded?
The Star-Gazette was the first newspaper to be part of Gannett Co., Inc. It was founded as the weekly Elmira Gazette in 1828 and became an evening daily in 1856. Frank Gannett bought a half-interest in the newspaper in 1906. The following year, he merged the Elmira Gazette with a competitor, the Evening Star, to form the Star-Gazette. In 1923, Gannett bought two other competitors in the city: the morning Daily Advertiser and the Sunday Telegram. The Star-Gazette and Advertiser combined as a single all-day newspaper in 1963. The Star-Gazette became a morning publication in 1982. The Telegram nameplate was dropped from the Sunday edition in 1985.
Who owns the Star-Gazette?
Gannett Co. Inc (NYSE: GCI) is the Star-Gazette’s parent company, operating a national flagship media brand, USA TODAY, and hundreds of media brands throughout the United States under the USA TODAY Network umbrella. It is one of the largest publishing and digital media companies in the nation.
We care about the needs of our readers, our advertisers, our employees and the people of our community. We recognize that we achieve our greatest success by producing quality news products and by helping to make our community a better place.
How to connect with the Star-Gazette
The Star-Gazette is active on several social media platforms:
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You can also add the Star-Gazette as a “preferred source” in Google by following this shortcut.
If you want immediate updates on anything and everything Elmira, you’ll want to download our mobile app.
Contact Star-Gazette staff
Customer service can be reached at (866) 254-0173.
Get to know our full staff here.
To become a subscriber to the Star-Gazette, click here.
Journalism principles guiding the Star-Gazette
For the USA TODAY Network Principles of Ethical Conduct For Newsrooms, click here.
For the USA TODAY Network Style Guide, click here.
This article originally appeared on Elmira Star-Gazette: About the Star-Gazette in Elmira, Chemung County, NY Twin Tiers
