The ''News Journal'' is an American
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
and
multimedia
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site (wnewsj.com) published in print two days per week (Wednesday and Saturday) in
Wilmington, Ohio
Wilmington is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 12,660 at the 2020 census. At city entrances from state routes, county roads, and U.S. highways, the city slogan of "We Honor Our Champions" is ...
, covering
Clinton County Clinton County may refer to:
*Counties named for George Clinton, first and third Governor of New York, and later the fourth Vice President of the United States:
**Clinton County, New York
** Clinton County, Ohio
*Counties named for DeWitt Clinton, ...
. It is owned by AIM Media, based in
McAllen, Texas
McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, on the Mexico–United States border. The city limits extend ...
.
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.]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 bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media
Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily newspaper, daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton, Ohio, Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelp ...
, 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 Freedom papers it had acquired, Impressions Media
{{Infobox company
, name = Impressions Media
, logo =
, type = Private
, foundation = {{start date, 1939, as Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company
, location = 15 North Main Street,Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1 ...
, and Heartland Publications
Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...
into a new company, Civitas Media
Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states.
The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, O ...
. 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/]
References
External links
''News Journal'' website
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Newspapers established in 1838
Newspapers published in Ohio
Clinton County, Ohio
1838 establishments in Ohio