The News Journal
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Front page from 2010
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Gannett Company |
| Publisher | Susan Leath |
| Editor | David Ledford |
| Founded | 1785 (as the Delaware Gazette) |
| Headquarters | 950 West Basin Road New Castle, Delaware 19720  United States
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| Circulation | Morning: 114,435 Sunday: 131,796 |
| ISSN | 1042-4121 |
| OCLC number | 16073699 |
| Website | delawareonline.com |
The News Journal is the main newspaper for Wilmington, Delaware, and the surrounding area. It is headquartered in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near New Castle, and is owned by Gannett.
For most of the 20th century, the Du Pont family owned two Delaware newspapers, The Morning News and The Evening Journal. Ownership of both papers was consolidated in 1919 when feuding factions of the family reconciled, forming the News Journal Company.
DuPont decided to sell The News Journal Company in 1978. Gannett won the bidding war, beating the Hearst Corporation and The Washington Post Company. Gannett paid $60 million for the two Delaware papers and merged them in 1989 to form one paper, The News Journal.
In 2010, The News Journal Company became The News Journal Media Group in an effort to collectively identify their extensive product portfolio of print, digital, video and new media.
The News Journal covers New Castle County most in-depth, but also offers considerable coverage of the Delaware General Assembly and the Delaware beaches. The paper also offers limited coverage of northeast Maryland and southeast Pennsylvania, mostly by means of short news briefs. The paper publishes national and international articles from wire services.
The News Journal also maintains a Washington, D.C. bureau, mainly for covering Delaware's congressional delegation.
The News Journal Media Group entered the Internet age in the late 1990s with the launch of Delaware Online, a website with an online edition of all local content in the paper, as well as job listings and classified ads. The paper began offering an online news update weekdays at 4:30 pm. The once-daily update has evolved into as-it-happens online news coverage that often results in a couple dozen news updates per day.
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