The Advocate is the leading newspaper of Darke County, Ohio, circulating in Greenville, Ansonia, Arcanum, Bradford, New Madison, Union City and Versailles, Ohio, as well as abutting smaller communities, and neighboring Union City, Indiana.
[4] Brown, a Cincinnati-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media in 2010.
[5] The company, including the Daily Advocate, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.
[8] In 2019, AIM Media Midwest purchased the Greenville Earlybird, a Sunday only free-distribution newspaper in the area.
The consolidation of the two publications now offers its advertising customers publishing capabilities Tuesdays through Fridays and Sundays each week.