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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Ogden Newspapers |
| Publisher | Ann Troutman |
| Editor | Bud Sargent |
| Founded | 1841 (1841) (asThe Mining Journal) |
| Headquarters | 249W. Washington St. Marquette, Michigan 49855  United States |
| Circulation | 9,411 Daily 11,106 Sunday (as of 2022)[1] |
| ISSN | 0898-4964 |
| Website | miningjournal |
The Mining Journal is the predominant dailynewspaper ofMarquette, Michigan, and theUpper Peninsula of Michigan.[2]
Like most market-dominant daily papers, theJournal is a six-day paper.The Mining Journal is distributed over a wide area, in part because Marquette is the largest city for a considerable radius in any direction. TheJournal can be found in 14 of the 15Upper Peninsula counties on weekends; distribution on other days is limited because of budget reductions.The Mining Journal either maintains bureaus in many of the cities of the U.P., or shares news coverage with other Ogden-owned papers.
In August 2019, theJournal announced that they would be discontinuing the Sunday print edition and become a six-day-per-week newspaper.
The Mining Journal was the proprietor of Marquette's first television and radio stations. First known as WBEO, AM 1320 began broadcasting in 1931, later changing itscall sign toWDMJ on November 15, 1939;[3] DMJ standing forDaily Mining Journal. The newspaper would later add an FM station in 1966, known as WDMJ-FM, and would later becomeWHWL.[4] Both stations remain on the air, albeit no longer under newspaper's ownership. The AM station is now owned byArmada Media Corporation also known as the Radio Results Network, while the FM station is owned by theGospel Opportunities Radio Network.[citation needed] The radio station moved out of the newspaper building to theHotel Northland in 1955.[5]
In 1956, The Mining Journal launched WDMJ-TV, the Upper Peninsula's first television station. Its studios were on the top floor of theMining Journal building onWashington Street in Downtown Marquette, until it moved to its present studios inNegaunee Township in 1964. The TV station was sold to the Post Corporation, owners ofWLUK-TV inGreen Bay, Wisconsin in 1964, who changed the calls toWLUC-TV. The station is now owned byGray Media.[6]
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