Every day, The Post-Standard, based in Syracuse, N.Y., brings world-class local news to its readers’ doorsteps. Inside its pages are stories and photography that are consistently honored as among the state’s finest. In 2006, for the second year in a row, The Post-Standard won the Newspaper of Distinction Award in its circulation category from the New York State Associated Press. The state Publishers Association, IRE, and Casey Journalism Center also have honored the paper’s work; a series that showed New York’s prisons are the nation’s deadliest was a Pulitzer finalist.

As important -- if not more so -- The Post-Standard stays close to its readers’ lives with a full news staff in seven bureaus and four zoned editions. Whether it’s exposing ineptitude in state government or the horrifying nutritional value of the latest State Fair waistline buster, if it matters to Central New York it’s covered by The Post-Standard.

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