The Flint Journal
| Type | Quad-weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Booth Newspapers (Advance Publications) |
| Publisher | Dan Gaydou |
| Editor | Bryn Mickle |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Headquarters | 540 S Saginaw St, Suite 504 Flint, Michigan 48502 |
| Circulation | 49,685 Tue, Thur, Fri 66,662 Sunday |
| Sister newspapers |
The Saginaw News The Bay City Times |
| Website | http://www.mlive.com/flint/ |
The Flint Journal is a quad-weekly newspaper based in Flint, Michigan, owned by Booth Newspapers, a subsidiary of Advance Publications. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, it serves Genesee, Lapeer and Shiawassee Counties. As of February 2, 2012, it is headquartered in Downtown Flint at 540 S Saginaw St, Suite 504. The paper and its sister publications The Saginaw News and The Bay City Times are printed at the Booth-owned Valley Publishing Co. printing plant in Monitor Township.
The Flint Journal was founded in 1876 during Flint's booming lumber years by Charles Fellows and Washington Irving Beardsley as a weekly newspaper The Journal's main competitors at the time were the Wolverine Citizen, The Genesee Democrat and The Flint Globe. The paper was sold in rapid succession to Doctor Carman, who sold ownership in December 1882 to George McConnolly and others until the Journal was purchased by the Flint Globe' owner, H. H. Fitzgerald, and merged as the Weekly Globe and Daily Journal. The Booth Publishing Company purchased ownership of the Weekly Globe and Daily Journal in 1911. Along with the rest of the Booth properties, the Journal became part of Advance Publications in 1976. On January 27, 2013, its old headquarters at 200 E First St was leased to the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
On June 1, 2009, the Journal and its sister papers, The Saginaw News and The Bay City Times, reduced publishing to three times a week—Thursday, Friday and Sunday, while increasing their interactive media capabilities. The changes came after the three papers laid off 35% of their staff in March 2009. Also at that point, all three newspapers increased their online presence, in partnership with MLive.com.
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