''The Ithaca Journal'' is a daily morning

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newspaper published in

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. It is locally edited and printed in

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, and publishes Monday through Saturday. It has been owned by

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's advice column. There is also a full page of comics and puzzles. Business and personal finance news appears on a page called Dollars & Sense. The fourth section is entirely

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. On Saturdays, the classified ads expand to two sections. Starting June 17, 2006, The Journal added a Life section on Saturdays. This day's focus will be Travel, a feature that currently appears in Saturday's main news section. Also on June 17, The Journal will add a separate Sports section in addition to the two news sections, Life and two classified sections, bringing the total number of sections to six.

Offices

''The Ithaca Journal'' is located on West State Street in downtown Ithaca. The Journal's offices spread over two buildings; the newspaper's original building and the neighboring Greenstate Building. The newsroom is located on the second floor of the original building with various administrative offices on the first floor. The first floor of Greenstate building houses the newspaper's public

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as well as the advertising offices. Much of the newspaper's general administrative operations are handled from the

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, offices of the ''

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''. Behind the original building, on Green Street, is the newspaper's old press facility. This press has been unused since June 10, 2006 when printing was transferred to the

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Ticket and Cortland Ticket

On Thursdays a tabloid-sized insert called ''Ticket'' is included in ''The Ithaca Journal''. ''Ticket'' includes local arts and entertainment news and events calendar. A similar publication, ''Cortland Ticket'', is included in newspapers sold in the

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, area on Fridays.

Buzz

''The Ithaca Journal'' produces a youth-oriented tabloid-sized publication called ''Buzz'' every week. The publication is distributed at no cost at retail locations and vending machines throughout the area and features stories of interest to a younger audience as well as an events calendar. ''Buzz'' is also distributed in the markets of ''The Ithaca Journal's'' sister publications, the Binghamton '' Press & Sun-Bulletin'' and Elmira ''

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''.

History

Founded in 1815 as the ''Seneca Republican'', it was renamed ''The Ithaca Journal'' in 1823. According to its website (see links below), the first daily edition of paper was published in 1870 and its offices are housed in the same building it has occupied since 1905. ''The Journal'' was purchased by

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in 1912, thereby becoming the second local newspaper of what would later become the media conglomerate

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students, ''The

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'' had been the only morning daily paper in the city. On June 12, 2006, the newspaper's printing facilities were relocated to the Gannett Central New York Production Facility in

, located outside of Binghamton, New York. This new facility also houses the printing facilities for the Binghamton '' Press & Sun-Bulletin'' and '' Elmira

'', both daily newspapers owned by Gannett. Following this relocation, ''The Ithaca Journal's'' existing building will be renovated to include expanded office space. In late 2006, ''The Ithaca Journal'' laid off some of its Ithaca-based circulation, marketing and advertising staff. The newspaper's circulation and marketing needs are now managed out of the Binghamton office. By June 2020, the newspaper's local staff was down to just a single reporter: Matt Steecker. This has resulted in days with no news from Ithaca. Instead, the newspaper uses content from Gannett properties in Binghamton and Elmira to fill the paper and website.At Gannett’s Ithaca Journal, local news staffing is down to one reporter
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Pulitzer

''The Journal'' was awarded a

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special citation in 1964 for meritorious public service.

Criticism

''The Journal'' has been frequently criticized throughout its history as pro-war and pro-corporate. Critics have pointed out that the newspaper strongly supported the

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, headlining an editorial in 1967 "U.S. Troops Must Stay in Vietnam," and condemned protests of the first

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as "unrealistic" in 1991. Prior to World War II, ''The Journal'', as with many American newspapers of the era, praised Europe's dictators. "No objective critic can fail to see that, viewed by the practical standard, ascismhas been, on the whole, a success," pronounced a 1932 editorial. Nevertheless, the paper is not immune to criticism from the right; in recent years, particular attention has been paid to left-leaning editorial page editor John Carberry. ''The Journal'' has also consistently endorsed

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candidates for federal offices in recent years. In its downsizing, ''The Journal'' has eliminated its high school sports staff, relying entirely on staff from Binghamton and Elmira newspapers for Ithaca-area high school coverage.

References

External links

Official ''Journal'' website

Official mobile website

Gannett Co.

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