Detroit Journal
The Detroit Journal was a newspaper published in Detroit, Michigan from September 1, 1883 through March 23, 1922.
The Detroit Evening Journal, established by
The Journal struggled financially until 1901; that year it was sold to a syndicate that included the future owner of the
A new group of owners assumed control of the Journal in 1917, but did not organize it as a corporation until April 25, 1919. The officers and owners of the corporation were: N.C. Wright, president; H.S. Talmadge, vice president;
In 1922 the Journal was bought out by the Evening News Association, owner of the rival The Detroit News.[citation needed]
Strike paper
In 1995, the name was also used to refer to a weekly newspaper put out by workers who were on strike from the current major newspapers, the Detroit Free Press, and the Detroit News. Its formal name was the Detroit Sunday Journal but it was often referred to as the Detroit Journal. The "temporary" paper ran four years until the strike finally ended in November 1997.[1]
References
- ^ Burns, Joe (May 30, 2012). "Bad News for Labor: New Detroit Newspaper Strike Book Underscores a Broken System". In These Times. Archived from the original on 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
Further reading
- Albert Nelson Marquis, ed. The Book of Detroiters, 1908, A.N. Marquis & Company, Chicago