JournalNews

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Hamilton JournalNews

The 2009-07-09 front cover of the
JournalNews.
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Cox Enterprises
Language English

Hamilton JournalNews was a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Hamilton, Ohio owned by Cox Media Group. The paper covered news in Hamilton and outlying areas. In September 2013, Cox Media Group Ohio announced that, effective November 1, the Hamilton JournalNews would be merged with The Middletown Journal into a new paper, the Journal-News.[1]

Awards

The Hamilton JournalNews brought award-winning news and information to readers in the Hamilton area since 1886. More than once it was named Best Newspaper in Ohio by The Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for its circulation. The paper also received the first-place General Excellence Award by the Associated Press.

History

The newspaper has a long history going back as far as 1879:[2]

References

  1. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2013/09/17/daily-newspapers-merge-in-butler.html
  2. publication based in city since 1879 by Jim Blount
  3. "One Newspaper Now in Hamilton" Feb. 4, 1933 in Cincinnati Times-Star: "suspension of the Daily News, Hamilton’s oldest newspaper, and its merger with the Hamilton Evening Journal officially was announced today" .. "financial difficulties resulted in a reorganization in 1929" .. "continued difficulties followed, however, and the paper was placed in the hands of a receiver"

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