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This page looks at the US Journal Communications group.
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overview
Milwaukee-based Journal Communications Inc is a minor
US media conglomerate with operations in publishing, radio
and television broadcasting, telecommunications and printing
services.
Its corporate site is here.
the group
Journal Communications centres on the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel, the only major daily newspaper for the
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) metropolitan area.
The group also encompasses
- over
90 community newspapers and shoppers in eight states.
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38 radio stations and seven television stations in 11
states on an own & operate basis
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operation of an additional television station under
a local marketing agreement
- a
regional fiber optic network in the US upper Midwest,
with integrated data communications solutions for SMEs
and network transmission solutions for other service
providers.
- commercial
printing services, including printing for professional
journals and electronic publishing, kit assembly and
fulfillment.
- direct
marketing services
Founder
Lucius Nieman (1857-1935) - commemorated by the Nieman
Foundation at Harvard University - worked at The Milwaukee
Sentinel (moving from composing room to editorship),
before acquiring control of the Milwaukee Daily Journal
in 1882. It was subsequently renamed the Milwaukee Journal,
providing the basis for expansion by the Journal Company.
The Sentinel was founded by Solomon Juneau (1793-1856),
acquired by Hearst in 1924, sold
to the Journal Company in 1962 and merged with the Milwaukee
Journal as the Journal Sentinel in 1995.
Nieman's liberalism and abhorrence of yellow journalism
has perhaps been exaggerrated - the paper received a Pulitzer
Prize in 1919 for its
courageous
campaign for Americanism in a constituency where foreign
elements made such a policy hazardous from a business
point of view
and
coverage was often as sensationalist as as its Hearst
competitors - but the Journal was distinguished
by its opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy. The paper
has since moved to the right.
holdings
The group's broadcast and print operations are highlighted
in the next page of this profile.a
studies
There have been no major studies of the Journal Communications
group.
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