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The Edmonton Journal is a newspaper published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is part of the Postmedia Network. It comes out Monday to Saturday, with a print edition printed Tuesday to Saturday.[4]
History
Three Edmonton businessmen - John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham - founded The Journal in 1903 as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Liberal-Party-friendly Edmonton Bulletin. Within a week, the Journal took over another newspaper, The Edmonton Post, and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative Party against the Bulletin's stance for the Liberal Party. In 1912, the Journal was sold to the Southam family.[2] It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger International.[5] The Journal was subsequently sold to Canwest in 2000,[6] and finally came under its current ownership, Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010.[7]
Edmonton Journal building
In 1905, The Journal began operating from a building on the corner of 102nd Avenue and 101st Street. Its present location at 101st Street and 100th Avenue was established in 1921, and Alberta's first radio station, CJCA, began broadcasting from the building a year later.[2]
In 1937, the Journal engaged in constant criticism of the government of William Aberhart and it opposed the government's passage of the Accurate News and Information Act, which, if made into law, would have required newspapers to print government rebuttals to stories the provincial cabinet deemed "inaccurate". After successfully fighting the law, the Journal became the first non-American newspaper to be honoured by the Pulitzer Prize committee, receiving a special bronze plaque in 1938 for defending the freedom of the press.[8]
For 19 months, from May 1946 and early 1948, the Edmonton Journal and The Bulletin were published as one newspaper due to a printers' strike.[9]
On January 2, 1948, The Journal resumed a separate existence, and it never did settle with the striking members of the International Typographical Union.[10]
Edmonton Journal Building (2023)
After the Bulletin folded in 1951, the Journal was for a time Edmonton's only daily newspaper. The monopoly ended when the Edmonton Sun began publishing in 1978.[11] Around 2020, the Journal ceased being a daily newspaper when it stopped publishing Sunday issues.
The Journal also operates under a commitment to digital media in addition to traditional print.[15]
In 2014, Postmedia Network, the owner of the Edmonton Journal, purchased several newspapers and websites from Quebecor. This made it that both the Edmonton Journal and its competitor, the Edmonton Sun were both owned by Postmedia.[16] In 2016 it was announced that the Journal and Sun's newsrooms and operations would be merged while both newspapers would continue to be published. This also led to the cuts of many staff between the two papers.[17]
Circulation
The Edmonton Journal has suffered a decline in circulation, like most Canadian daily newspapers. Its total circulation dropped by 22 percent to 92,542 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.[18]
↑"Daily Newspaper Circulation Data". News Media Canada. Retrieved December 16, 2017. Figures refer to the total circulation (print and digital combined) which includes paid and unpaid copies.
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