Edmonton Journal
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| Type | Daily |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Postmedia Network Inc. |
| Editor-in-chief | Lorne Motley |
| Founded | 1903 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 10006 101 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5J 0S1 |
| Circulation | 96,234 daily 101,708 Saturday in 2013 |
| ISSN | 0839-296X |
| Website | www |
The Edmonton Journal is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the Postmedia Network.
The Journal was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Edmonton Bulletin. Within a week, the Journal took over another newspaper, The Edmonton Post, and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative party against the Bulletin's pro-Liberal stance. In 1912, the Journal was sold to the Southam family. It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger International. The Journal was subsequently sold to Canwest in 2000, and finally came under its current ownership, Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010.
In 1905, The Journal began operating from a building on the corner of a lot on 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.
In 1937, the Journal came into conflict with Alberta Premier William Aberhart's attempt to pass the Accurate News and Information Act requiring newspapers to print government rebuttals to stories the provincial cabinet deemed "inaccurate." After successfully fighting the law, the Journal became the first non-American newspaper to be honoured by the Pulitzer Prize committee, receiving a special bronze plaque in 1938 for defending the freedom of the press.
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