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==Embracing of Technology== |
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The News Journal Company entered the Internet age in the late 1990s with the launch of [http://www.delawareonline.com |
The News Journal Company entered the Internet age in the late 1990s with the launch of [http://www.delawareonline.com Delaware Online]. The website features an online edition of all local content in the paper, as well as job listings and classified ads. |
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The paper began offering an online news update weekdays at 4:30 pm. The once-daily update has evlved into as-it-happens online news coverage that often results in a couple dozen news updates per day. |
The paper began offering an online news update weekdays at 4:30 pm. The once-daily update has evlved into as-it-happens online news coverage that often results in a couple dozen news updates per day. |
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Delaware Online also offers a brief morning and afternoon online newscast with anchor Patty Petite. Billboards for Delaware Online encourage residents to "get their Delaware news from an anchor who actually lives in Delaware," alluding to Delaware's lack of a television station. |
Delaware Online also offers a brief morning and afternoon online newscast with anchor Patty Petite. Billboards for Delaware Online encourage residents to "get their Delaware news from an anchor who actually lives in Delaware," alluding to Delaware's lack of a television station. |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Gannett Company |
| Publisher | W. Curtis Riddle |
| Editor | David Ledford |
| Founded | 1785 (as the Delaware Gazette) |
| Headquarters | 950 West Basin Road New Castle, Delaware 19720  United States |
| Circulation | Morning: 114,435 Sunday: 131,796[1] |
| Website | delawareonline |
The News Journal is a Wilmington, Delaware newspaper owned by Gannett. Like most American newspapers, it also makes an associated online version available.
History
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.
Acquisition by Gannett
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 payed $60 million for the two Delaware papers and merged them in 1989 to form one paper, The News Journal. [2]
Coverage Area
Based in New Castle, Delaware, The News Journal covers New Castle County most in-depth, but also offers considerable coverage of the rest of the state, including the Delaware General Assembly, and the Delaware beaches. The paper 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 congressmen.
Embracing of Technology
The News Journal Company entered the Internet age in the late 1990s with the launch of Delaware Online. The website features 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 evlved into as-it-happens online news coverage that often results in a couple dozen news updates per day.
Delaware Online also offers a brief morning and afternoon online newscast with anchor Patty Petite. Billboards for Delaware Online encourage residents to "get their Delaware news from an anchor who actually lives in Delaware," alluding to Delaware's lack of a television station.
Community Involvement
The News Journal has for several years participated in the Newspapers for Education, which provides free newspapers for area schools. On Fridays during the school year, the paper publishes an informational feature for school children, in the form of colorful, pull-out, double truck page in the Life section.
In 2006, The News Journal provided Glasgow High School with a $10,000 grant to assist the school's nespaper, The Dragon Fire. The News Journal also sent editors to Glasgow to assist the Dragon Fire with page layout and web design.
The News Journal Company also runs the Needy Family Fund, which partners with local charities to assist family in need of food and clothing. Each Christmas season, The News Journal asks readers to donate to the fund, and publishes a list of those who do.
References
- ^ "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2007-03-31. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Confessions of an SOB by Al Neuharth. 1989.
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