- Flint Journal
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name = The Flint Journal
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type = Dailynewspaper
format =Broadsheet
foundation = 1876
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owners = Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc. D.B.A.Booth Newspapers , Inc.
publisher = David C. Sharp
editor = Tony Dearing
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maneditor =Brooke Rausch
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headquarters =Flint,Michigan
sister newspapers =Community Newspapers
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website = [http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/ MLive.com (articles)]
[http://flintjournal.com/main.html Flint Journal.com (general)]"The Flint Journal" is the only major daily
newspaper inFlint, Michigan . It serves Genesee, Lapeer and Shiawassee Counties. The Paper is headquartered at 200 East First Street Flint, Michigan.History
The Flint Journal was founded in 1876 during Flint's booming lumber years by Charles Fellows and Washington Irving Beardsley as a weekly newspaper [.cite web |url=http://www.flinthistory.com/history/decades.shtml?1871-1880 |title=Major Events in Flint's History 1871-1880 |accessdate=2008-04-08 |format=html |work=FlintHistory.com ] The Journal's main competitors at the time was the Wolverine Citizen, The Genesee Democrat and The Flint Globe. The paper was sold in rapid succession to Doctor Carman, who sold ownership in December 1882 to George McConnolly and other until the Journal was purchase by the Flint Globe's owner, H. H. Fitzgerald, and merged as the Weekly Globe and Daily Journal. The Booth Publishing Company purchased ownership of the Weekly Globe and Daily Journal in 1911. [cite web |url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/lapeer/gen/ch16.html |title=Chapter XVI: The Press |accessdate=2008-04-08 |format=html |work=The History of Genesee County, MI ] In 1904 the Journal expanded its news services greatly by receiving wire services from the associated press. Throughout the early 20s, the Journal saw a great increase in subscription along with Flint's growing population. GM had the Journal in its pocket for a while, even to the point where the publisher at the time said that the word "Ford" was not to be mentioned. During the Civil Rights Era, the Journal was a prime example of a changing world. The word "colored" was dropped from its pages and there was a large income of black reporters. One of those reporters is now the communications director for the Flint School District. The biggest stories of the paper's history were the Sit Down Strike and the 1953 Beecher tornado. The Journal continues to be the most dominant newspaper of the Flint area and is a very looked to source of news.
Circulation
The Journal has a daily circulation of 83,814 with daily readership of 174,620 and a Sunday circulation of 101,590, with readership of 227,679.
ee also
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Barry Edmonds
*Edwin M. Bradley External links
An overview of the history of The Journal can be found [http://www.flintjournal.com/125/index.html online.]
* [http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/ Official website]References
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