Audio Reading Service of the Allen County Public Library
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Fort Wayne’s daily paper, read aloud.
The Journal Gazette turns the daily Fort Wayne paper into a measured spoken edition. Its readers move article by article through local and regional news, obituaries, lifestyle features, editorials, sports, TV listings, and community birthday notes.
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The Journal Gazette is an audio reading of the Fort Wayne newspaper, organized with the discipline of the printed page. It begins where a local reader would expect: front-page news, public business, regional developments, and the institutional facts behind them. The sound is spare. Readers identify the edition, set out the schedule, and then proceed through selections with little conversational padding. Local government is a recurring anchor, from Fort Wayne utility planning and county approvals to zoning requests, fire station renovations, parade logistics, park projects, and public funding details. The show pays attention to numbers. Infrastructure work, a county approval, a festival budget target, hospital patient volumes, and emergency services capacity all sit naturally inside its coverage. It also makes room for the wider world. Recent readings include U.S.-Iran negotiations, Israel-Lebanon talks, Hungary’s election politics, Ukraine-related European Union tensions, camp flood deaths, and debates over war powers. The shift from city business to international reporting can be abrupt, but that is part of the newspaper form it preserves. One article ends. The next begins. Obituaries occupy a major place in the program, especially in weekend editions, where edited death notices follow the news before features and other sections resume. Those notices are read as community record, with names, ages, survivors, services, and contact information handled in a plain voice. The lighter sections matter too. Living features, Weekender material, entertainment coverage, sports, TV listings, editorials, letters, press releases, and birthday announcements give the program the full miscellany of a daily paper. Its purpose is access rather than performance. The Allen County Public Library’s audio reading service frames the program for people whose disabilities or conditions prevent ordinary print reading, and the editorial shape follows that mission. The show does not sell urgency. It offers continuity. Readers such as Carol, Jennifer, and Stuart recur across editions, but the format stays larger than any one voice. What distinguishes The Journal Gazette is its willingness to retain the practical furniture of print: headlines, section order, captions, phone numbers, bylines, community announcements, and the slow accumulation of civic detail. It is best understood as a public-service newspaper edition in audio form. The appeal lies in the record being read aloud, steadily and without embellishment.
Made for: The Journal Gazette is for people who rely on audio access to local print news, especially readers with visual, physical, learning, language, or related barriers to printed materials. It also suits Fort Wayne-area residents who want a complete newspaper-style briefing rather than commentary.
What sets it apart: Unlike local news podcasts built around analysis or host personality, this program preserves the structure of the newspaper itself. Headlines, obituaries, editorials, listings, notices, and community announcements remain part of the same spoken civic record.
Today’s Journal Gazette, updated Monday through Saturday. This Audio Reading Service podcast is a service of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN. It is specifically designed for and directed to people who have visual, physical, learning or language challenges to reading normal printed materials.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Volunteer readings carry Fort Wayne civic reporting into audio while retaining the wider scope and familiar structure of a local newspaper.
The Journal Gazette turns the Fort Wayne newspaper into a structured audio edition, with pairs of volunteers reading selected stories section by section.
Fort Wayne's paper is read aloud, with birthday wishes for you if the calendar cooperates.
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A steady newspaper reading with civic range, obituary breadth, and plain utility.
The Saturday reading of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette feels less like a performance than a public record. It moves through local and regional news, obituaries, living-section items, TV listings, sports, and birthday greetings with the same steady newspaper cadence, and that…
A steady civic scan that treats the morning paper like public record, not performance.
The Monday, April 13th Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette reading plays like a paper held open with care: local violence, an arrest, Iran talks, oil prices, then the calmer civic ledger of obituaries, features, editorials, TV listings, sports, and birthdays. That sequence is the point.
A plainspoken reading that delivers the day's paper as a practical service.
The Journal-Gazette reading service moves through the Saturday, April 11th weekend edition in a plain, steady cadence that fits its purpose. Rachel and Belinda frame it as a direct reading, and the lineup stays easy to follow: news, death notices, features from the living…
A plainspoken local-paper reading that keeps the focus on civic detail.
The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette reading reads as public service more than performance. Framed by the Allen County Public Library's audio reading service, it is meant for people with disabilities that make printed material difficult to use, and the paper itself comes across as a…
A plainspoken read that moves through the day's paper with steady clarity.
The April 9 reading of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette is orderly and plainspoken, moving from news and obituaries to living features, perspective, TV listings, sports, and birthdays. That sequence does a lot of the work on its own.
A steady Journal-Gazette reading that carries news, policy, and local notices in order.
This Journal-Gazette reading moves cleanly from front-page news to obituaries, features, perspective, TV listings, sports, and birthday announcements.
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The recording opens with a service notice from the Allen County Public Library audio reading service, says it is for people who cannot easily read printed materials, and lays out a two-hour schedule that starts with news and then moves through death notices, a short break, the living section, perspectives, TV listings, sports, and birthday announcements.
This is an audio reading of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette newspaper for April 17, 2026, starting with a news article about a rejected Google zoning request.
This is a live audio reading of the April 16, 2026 Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette newspaper, covering local news, obituaries, features, editorials, sports, and community announcements for listeners with disabilities.
This is a live audio reading of the April 15, 2026 Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette newspaper, covering local news, utilities infrastructure, international diplomacy, obituaries, sports, and editorials.
This is a live audio reading of the April 14, 2026 Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette newspaper, covering news, obituaries, features, editorials, sports, and TV listings for listeners with disabilities.
Since 1863, the award-winning Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette has been one of Northeast Indiana's most reliable and trusted news outlets, and this episode offers the Monday, April 13, 2026 paper as a live audio reading.
Rachel and Belinda read the Saturday, April 11th weekend edition of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.
The April 10, 2026, episode of the Journal Gazette audio reading covers local and national news.
It opens with the library's audio reading service.
The reading begins with a formal note from the Allen County Public Library audio service.
Fort Wayne officials announced a $37 million 2026 neighborhood infrastructure plan, down about 10% from last year because Senate Enrolled Act 1 cut city revenue by $25 million.
The April 6, 2026 Journal Gazette reading opens with Trump's Tuesday deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, five weeks into a war that began February 28.
This episode features volunteers reading selections from the February 24, 2026 Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, starting with front-page news including a murder case plea deal.
This episode is a volunteer reading of the February 23, 2026 Journal Gazette newspaper, starting with news headlines including a security breach at Mar-a-Lago where an armed man was shot and killed.
Volunteers from the Allen County Public Library's Audio Reading Service read selections from the February 21, 2026 weekend edition of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, including news, features, and announcements for visually or print-impaired listeners.
This episode features volunteers reading selections from the February 20, 2026 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, including news headlines, obituaries, features, and sections like sports and editorials, starting with an article about the Pentagon bolstering its Middle East presence.
A volunteer reading service presents selections from the February 19, 2026 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, covering news, obituaries, features, editorials, sports, and community announcements.