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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Postmedia Network |
| Editor-in-chief | Lorne Motley[1] |
| Founded | 1903[2] |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 10006 101 Street Edmonton,Alberta T5J 0S1 |
| Circulation | 91,776 weekdays 96,372 Saturdays (as of 2015)[3] |
| Sister newspapers | Calgary Herald |
| ISSN | 0839-296X |
| Website | edmontonjournal |
TheEdmonton Journal is anewspaper published inEdmonton,Alberta, Canada. It is part of thePostmedia Network. It comes out Monday to Saturday, with a print edition printed Tuesday to Saturday.[4]
Three Edmonton businessmen - John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham - founded TheJournal in 1903 as a rival toAlberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Liberal-Party-friendlyEdmonton Bulletin. Within a week, theJournal took over another newspaper,The Edmonton Post, and established an editorial policy supporting theConservative Party against theBulletin's stance for theLiberal Party. In 1912, theJournal was sold to theSoutham family.[2] It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired byHollinger International.[5] TheJournal was subsequently sold toCanwest in 2000,[6] and finally came under its current ownership,Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010.[7]
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, theJournal engaged in constant criticism of the government ofWilliam Aberhart and it opposed the government's passage of theAccurate 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, theJournal became the first non-American newspaper to be honoured by thePulitzer Prize committee, receiving a special bronze plaque in 1938 for defending thefreedom of the press.[8]
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After theBulletin folded in 1951, theJournal was left for a time as Edmonton's only daily newspaper. The monopoly ended when theEdmonton Sun began publishing in 1978.[9] Around 2020, the Journal ceased being a daily newspaper when it stopped publishing Sunday issues.
In 1982, government officials under theCombines Investigation Act entered and searched the paper's offices under the suspicion that Southam Newspapers was violating federal legislation by engaging in unfair trading and anti-competitive business practices.[10] TheAlberta Court of Appeal ruled the search to be inconsistent with theCharter of Rights and Freedoms, a decision theSupreme Court of Canada upheld inHunter v Southam Inc.[11]
Today, theJournal publishes six days a week (the Monday edition being an e-version). Regular sections include News (city, Canada, and world), Sports, Opinion, A&E, Life, and Business. The newspaper participated in theCritics and Awards Program for High School Students (Cappies),[12] now called the Alberta Youth Theatre Collective, and has partnerships with a number of arts organizations inEdmonton, including theEdmonton Symphony Orchestra and theAlberta Ballet Company. It also supports community events such as theCanspell National Spelling Bee.[13]
TheJournal also operates under a commitment to digital media in addition to traditional print.[13]
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.[14] 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.[15]
TheEdmonton Journal has suffered a decline incirculation, like mostCanadian daily newspapers. Its total circulation dropped by 22 percent to 92,542 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.[16]
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