News Journal (Ohio)

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>

News Journal
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Civitas Media
Publisher Randy Graf
Editor Thomas Barr
Sports editor Mark Huber
Founded October 1838 (1838-10), as the Western Whig[1]
Headquarters 761 South Nelson Avenue,
Wilmington, Ohio 45177, United States
ISSN 8750-4847
Website wnewsj.com

The News Journal is an American daily newspaper and multimedia site (wnewsj.com) published five days per week (Tuesday-Saturday) in Wilmington, Ohio, covering Clinton County.[2] It is owned by Civitas Media LLC, which owns approximately 100 daily and weekly newspapers in 12 states and is based in Davidson, North Carolina. Civitas Media is a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.[3]

The newspaper traces its history back to two weeklies, the Clinton Republican (begun in 1838 as the Western Whig, name changed the next year),[1] and The Wilmington Journal (founded 1868), that merged into The Journal-Republican in 1912.[4] The Wilmington News Journal was founded by W.J. Galvin on Oct. 15, 1915, originally called the Wilmington Daily News. In 1916, it merged with the semi-weekly Journal Republican and became known as the Wilmington Daily News Journal. It was owned by the Galvin family until it was sold to the Brown Publishing Company in 1986.[5] In 2010, Brown declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media, which later became part of Civitas/Versa.[6] The company, including the News Journal, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Versa Capital Management.[7]

Gallery

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. http://civitasmedia.com/section/ournewspapers
  3. http://civitasmedia.com/
  4. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. http://www.wnewsj.com/section/aboutus
  6. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links