 TheJournal's front page as it appeared on May 3, 2012. | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Journal Publishing Company |
| Editor | Publisher, Bill Lang VP of Advertising, Kathy Malm |
| Founded | 1880 (as theGolden Gate) |
| Headquarters | 7777 Jefferson Street NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109 |
| Circulation | 41,016 Daily 49,361 Sunday[1] |
| ISSN | 1526-5137 |
| Website | abqjournal.com |
TheAlbuquerque Journal is the largestnewspaper in theU.S. state ofNew Mexico.[2]
TheGolden Gate newspaper was founded in June 1880. In the fall of 1880, the owner of theGolden Gate died and Journal Publishing Company was created. Journal Publishing changed the paper's name toAlbuquerque Daily Journal and issued its first edition of theAlbuquerque Daily Journal on October 14, 1880.
TheDaily Journal was first published inOld Town Albuquerque, but in 1882 the publication moved to a single room in the so-called new town (or expanded Albuquerque) at Second and Silver streets near the railroad tracks. It was published on a single sheet of newsprint, folded to make four pages. Those pages were divided into five columns with small headlines. Advertising appeared on the front page. TheDaily Journal was published in the evening until the first Territorial Fair opened in October 1881. On October 4 of that year, a morning Journal was published in order to record the day's events at the fair. The morning Daily Journal continued for six issues. The last issue was published on Sunday, October 9 – making it the first Sunday newspaper to appear in Albuquerque. In 1887, theMorning Journal was acquired by theAlbuquerque Daily Democrat, a newspaper founded in Santa Fe which had moved to Albuquerque.
The newspaper's name changed in 1899 to theAlbuquerque Journal-Democrat. A change in policy necessitated the dropping of "Democrat" from the paper's name in 1903, so the digest appeared again as theAlbuquerque Morning Journal. The daily paper's name was changed to theAlbuquerque Journal in 1925 when an independent editorial policy was established.
A year later, Tom Pepperday bought theJournal. Under his watch, the paper branched out into broadcasting, leasing the state's oldest radio station,KOB, in 1932 before buying it outright in 1936. He built the state's first television station,KOB-TV, in 1948.
Pepperday died in 1956, and his son-in-law, C. L. Lang, took over the paper. Tom Lang inherited theJournal upon his father's death in 1971, and handed it to his brother Bill in 2012. The Pepperday-Lang family has run the ‘'Journal’' for almost a century, making it one of the few family-owned papers in a city of Albuquerque's size.
TheAlbuquerque Journal is published Monday through Saturday with a Sunday edition called theSunday Journal. In addition to theJournal’s daily final edition, Journal Publishing, also, issues regional newspapers. These includeEl Defensor Chieftain inSocorro, theRio Rancho Observer andValencia County News-Bulletin.[3]
Newspaper sections include news, advertising, comics, Business; Sports, Metro N.M., Health, Education, Food, Go, Fetch,& VENUE Plus (entertainment tabloid on Fridays).
Sections of TheSunday Journal include Living, Arts, Books, Travel, Careers, Real Estate, Money, Dimension, and Wall Street Journal Business.
Journal Publishing has an online-digital edition of the dailyAlbuquerque Journal optimized for mobile viewing.
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Atrisco Heritage Academy HS,Kirtland Air Force Base, andNational Museum of Nuclear Science & History are adjacent to but outside of the city limits. | |||
