''The Journal Gazette'' is the morning
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
in
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Censu ...
. It publishes seven days a week, and contends for circulation and advertising in a 15-county area.
History
''The Journal Gazette'' traces its origins to 1863 when ''The Fort Wayne Gazette'' was founded.
It was originally founded to support Lincoln and oppose slavery. In 1899, ''The Fort Wayne Gazette'' merged with ''The Journal'' to create ''The Journal Gazette''.
''The Journal Gazette'' has always been a privately owned newspaper.
In 1950, in conjunction with the local owner of ''The News-Sentinel'', ''The Journal Gazette'' entered into one of the first
joint operating agreement
The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President Richard Nixon, authorizing the formation of joint operating agreements among competing newspaper operations within the same media market area. It ...
s for competing daily newspapers in the United States. That required a special act of Congress. (In 1970, Congress passed the Newspaper Preservation Act, codifying JOAs and exempting them from certain antitrust provisions.) Under the arrangement, ''The Journal Gazette'' and ''
The News-Sentinel'' have independent editorial staffs and management, while a jointly owned corporation, Fort Wayne Newspapers, sells advertising, handles circulation, prints the newspapers and, since 1958, has been landlord to the newspapers' staffs.
In 1980 Knight Ridder bought ''The News-Sentinel'' and the majority interest in Fort Wayne Newspapers (with new joint operating agreement provisions) and agreed to extend the
JOA through 2020.
In 2003 the JOA was again renegotiated with additional protections for the minority owners and an agreement to build a new downtown press facility.
In 2003, Knight Ridder sold all of its papers to the McClatchy Company, which in turn sold the NS to Ogden Newspapers of Wheeling, West Virginia. The ''JG'' had its third JOA partner, but remained locally owned and controlled.
In October of 2017, ''The News-Sentinel'' owners decided to cease publication of their print product, but ''The Journal Gazette'' agreed to publish a page of ''News-Sentinel'' content Monday through Saturday.
The
Journal Gazette Building, longtime printing location, is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
References
External links
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Richard Inskeep profile-
Depauw University
New printing plant
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Newspapers published in Fort Wayne, Indiana
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