Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, daily published in, Wisconsin. It is regarded as ’s leading newspaper and generally accounted as one of the great regional dailies of the.The paper was founded in 1882 by Lucius W. Nieman as the Milwaukee Daily Journal, an independent, community-oriented newspaper, and was renamed The Milwaukee Journal in 1890. It became noted for its coverage of Milwaukee and state affairs, gained extensive statewide circulation, and became distinguished for its editorial stance. It tended over the years to support progressive or liberal candidates for political office and maintained an international point of view. After it supported the and, later, the. In a heavily German American, The Milwaukee Journal exposed the underpinning of the German American Bund in the 1930s and attacked Wisconsin’s U.S.
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For his unfounded accusations of communist sympathy in the 1950s.Nieman died in 1935 and his wife in 1936; part of their fortune went to establish the Nieman fellowships for working journalists at. Grant had become editor of The Milwaukee Journal in 1919, and after the Niemans’ deaths he organized a plan whereby employees could buy stock in the company; more than 700 did so, and the employees eventually acquired control of the paper. In 1962 the employee-owned corporation bought the Milwaukee Sentinel from the Hearst Corporation.
After running the two papers independently, the company, now called Journal Communications, merged them in 1995, renaming them the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In 2014 Journal Communications merged with the E.W. Scripps Company, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel became the flagship of a new newspaper publisher, Journal Media Group, Inc. Two years later Journal Media Group was sold to Gannett Co., Inc., which thereby acquired the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and several other daily newspapers.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is Wisconsin's largest and most influential newspaper. The Journal Sentinel is adaily morning broadsheet newspaper with a weekday circulation of 258,000 copies and a Sunday circulation of more than 430,000. The Journal Sentinel was first printed in April 1995, the result of the consolidation of operations between the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel, which had been owned by the same company, Journal Communications. The newspaper has the second strongest readership numbers in the country. Cumulative readership of the Sunday and daily papers is 81 percent, according to Newspaper Association of America statistics.
The paper also has a website with articles available for readers.