Aberdeen Journals Ltd. is a

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based in

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

, Scotland. The company publishes the '' Press and Journal'', the '' Evening Express'', the ''

Aberdeen Citizen The ''Aberdeen Citizen'' was the highest distributed free newspaper in Aberdeen. It was a weekly newspaper. Launched in 1989, as the ''Aberdeen Herald & Post'', it was re-launched as its current title in 2002. It provided a round-up of the week's ...

'' and ''Scot-Ads'' newspapers. It was owned by

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, which is owned by

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from 1995 until 2006, when Aberdeen Journals was sold to

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

based D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. ''The Press and Journal'' was first published as a weekly title on 29 December 1747 and was known as ''The Aberdeen's Journal''. It was published on a weekly basis for 128 years until August 1876, when it became a daily newspaper. In November 1922, the paper was renamed T''he Aberdeen Press & Journal'' when its parent firm joined forces with the ''Free Press''. ''The Press & Journal'', often called the ''P&J'', is a daily morning regional newspaper. It is printed 6 days a week as a compact. The Press & Journal produces 6 geographic editions. Daily readership – 138,000Base: 634,000 adults in the Press and Journal survey area. Source: Ipsos Media CT 2010 Weekly readership – 287,000 Circulation – 67,781 (July-Dec 2011, 99,1% paid) The current editor of the ''Press and Journal'' is Frank O’Donnell. The ''Evening Express'' is a daily local evening newspaper which was first published in November 1879. The current editor of the ''Evening Express'' is Craig Walker.

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