News Journal
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)AIM Media
PublisherLane Moon
EditorRyan Carter
Sports editorMark Huber
FoundedOctober 1838 (1838-10), as the Western Whig[1]
Headquarters1547 Rombach Ave. Avenue,
Wilmington, Ohio 45177, United States
ISSN8750-4847
Websitewnewsj.com

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.[2] It is owned by AIM Media, based in McAllen, Texas.[3]

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),[1] and The Wilmington Journal (founded 1868), that merged into The Journal-Republican in 1912.[4] 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 in 1986.[5] In 2010, Brown declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media, which later became part of Civitas/Versa.[6] The company, including the News Journal, was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Versa Capital Management.[7]

In 2012, Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former Freedom papers it had acquired, Impressions Media, and Heartland Publications into a new company, Civitas Media.[8] Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media in 2017.[9]

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.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Western Whig". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ "News Journal is changing with the times". 21 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "AIM Media Midwest Operating, LLC » Digital AIM Media".
  4. ↑ "About The Wilmington Journal". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  5. ↑ "About Us".
  6. ↑ Sanctis, Matt (September 3, 2010). "Court Approves Brown Sale of Assets". Springfield News-Sun. Springfield, Ohio. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  7. ↑ Staff report (May 20, 2011). "Local Newspapers Under New Ownership". Springfield News-Sun. Springfield, Ohio. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  8. ↑ https://www.versa.com/docs/Civitas%20Formation.pdf
  9. ↑ "Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017". Dirks, Van Essen & Murray. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  10. ↑ "News Journal is changing with the times". 21 February 2023.
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