The Topeka Capital-Journal

Type	Dailynewspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	USA Today Co.
Publisher	Stephen Wade
Editor	Tomari Quinn
Founded	Topeka Daily Capital: 1879 (with heritage dating to 1858) Topeka State Journal: 1873 Topeka Capital-Journal: 1981
Headquarters	100 SE 9th Street, Suite 500 Topeka, Kansas 66612 USA
Circulation	18,388[1]
Website	www.cjonline.com

The Topeka Capital-Journal is a daily newspaper inTopeka, Kansas, owned byGannett.

The paper was formed following numerous name changes and mergers, including the merger ofThe Topeka Daily Capital andThe Topeka State Journal.

• 1858: TheKansas State Record starts publishing.
• 1873: TheTopeka Blade is founded by J. Clarke Swayze.
• 1879: George W. Reed buys theBlade and changes its name toThe Kansas State Journal.
• 1879:The Topeka Daily Capital is founded by Major J.K. Hudson as an evening paper but changes to morning in 1881.
• 1885:Frank P. MacLennan buys theJournal and renames itThe Topeka State Journal.
• 1888: TheCapital absorbs theCommonwealth, owned byFloyd Perry Baker and his sons, who had earlier bought theKansas State Record.
• 1899: Frederick Oliver Popenoe buys a 51 percent controlling interest in theCapital.
• 1900:Charles M. Sheldon, saying "Newspapers should be operated as Christ would operate them," sends theCapital circulation skyrocketing from 12,000 to 387,000, forcing it to print papers in New York and Chicago.
• 1901:Arthur Capper buys theCapital and becomes sole owner in 1904.
• 1940:Oscar S. Stauffer buys theJournal.
• 1951: Capper dies, and theCapital become employee-owned.
• 1956:Stauffer Communications buys Capper Publications, including theCapital.
• 1962: Former MacLennan homeCedar Crest becomes the Kansas governor's mansion.
• 1973:Brian Lanker wins the1973 Pulitzer Prize forFeature Photography for a series of photos of a childbirth, as exemplified by the image titled "Moment of Life".
• 1975:Susan Ford (daughter ofGerald Ford) andChris Johns (future editor ofNational Geographic magazine) intern at paper during the summer.^[2]
• 1981: Stauffer Communications merges theCapital and theJournal intoThe Topeka Capital-Journal, distributed in the morning.
• 1982: Former owner Oscar S. Stauffer dies at 95.
• 1994: Stauffer Communications merges withMorris Communications.^[3]
• 2017: Morris Communications sells its newspapers toGateHouse Media.^[4]
• 2019: GateHouse Media's corporate parent company, New Media Investment Group, announces that it will acquire Gannett and assume its name.^[5][6]
• 2023: The paper announces it's switching from carrier to mail delivery via the U.S. Postal Service.^[7]

• List of newspapers in Kansas

• "The Capital-Journal's roots run deep",The Topeka Capital-Journal, June 1, 2003

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