The ''Sarasota Journal'' was an American

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published in

Sarasota, Florida Sarasota () is a city in Sarasota County, Florida, Sarasota County on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The c ...

, from 1952 until 1982. The ''Journal'' was founded in 1952 by publisher Lindsay Newspapers Inc. as an afternoon companion to their morning daily ''

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'' newspaper. Citing steadily declining circulation figures, Lindsay Newspapers shut down the ''Journal'' just before a sale of the larger ''Herald-Tribune'' to the

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in late 1982 for an estimated $87 million. The final circulation figure for the ''Journal'' was 5,337, about one-third of the paper's reach in the early 1960s. The paper's last date of publication was July 9, 1982.

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