| News Journal | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Foundation: | , as the [1] |
| Owners: | AIM Media |
| Publisher: | Lane Moon |
| Editor: | Ryan Carter |
| Sportseditor: | Mark Huber |
| Headquarters: | 1547 Rombach Ave. Avenue, Wilmington, Ohio 45177, |
| Issn: | 8750-4847 |
| Website: | wnewsj.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.[2]