The Patriot-News is the largest daily newspaper serving the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metropolitan area. In 2005, the newspaper was ranked in the top 100 in daily/Sunday circulation in the United States.
The official birth of The Patriot-News is celebrated as March 4, 1854, but its history goes back to December 1820, when it was a weekly newspaper named, The Pennsylvania Intelligencer.[2] In 2005, 2006 and 2007, The Patriot-News received the Pennsylvania Newspaper of the Year award.[2]