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Jonathan founded several newspapers in service to his reform cause. His first newspaper, The Undergraduate, was a student paper that he started at Middlebury College.
During his time as a pastor in Cincinnati, he edited the Cincinnati Observer. The newspaper published his writings on temperance, keeping the Sabbath, and eliminating slavery.
In 1850, Jonathan Blanchard started The Christian Era, an anti-slavery paper which ran for 14 years.
Beginning in 1868, Jonathan Blanchard founded The Christian Cynosure, a paper focused on criticizing secret societies. The paper was the official press of the National Christian Association, a body founded by Jonathan to advance his reform causes. The Cynosure also published material related to Blanchard’s other reform causes, such as temperance and Prohibition.