The ''News Journal'' is an American newspaper and multimedia site (wnewsj.com) published in print two days per week (Wednesday and Saturday) in Wilmington, Ohio, covering Clinton County. It is owned by AIM Media, based in McAllen, Texas. The newspaper traces its history back to two weeklies, the ''Clinton Republican'' (begun in 1838 as the ''Western Whig'', the name changed the next year), and ''The Wilmington Journal'' (founded 1868), that merged into ''The Journal-Republican'' in 1912. 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 Brown Publishing Company was a privately owned Cincinnati, Ohio, newspaper business started by Congressman Clarence J. Brown in Blanchester, Ohio in 1920. It ended 90 years of operations in August/September 2010 with its bankruptcy and sale of ass ...

in 1986. In 2010, Brown declared

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and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media, which later became part of Civitas/Versa. The company, including the ''News Journal'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Versa Capital Management. In 2012, Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former

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papers it had acquired,

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, and

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into a new company, Civitas Media. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media in 2017. Shortly after a website redesign in early 2023, the News Journal announced on February 21, 2023 that the printed edition, previously published Tuesday through Saturday, would publish only on Wednesday and Saturday.https://www.wnewsj.com/2023/02/21/news-journal-is-changing-with-the-times/

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External links

''News Journal'' website
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