Winston-Salem Journal
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| Winston-Salem Journal | |
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 The July 27, 2005 front page of the Winston-Salem Journal |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Media General |
| Publisher | Michael Miller |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Headquarters | 418 N. Marshall St. Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101  United States |
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| Website: journalnow.com | |
The Winston-Salem Journal is a daily newspaper primarily serving the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and its county, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It also features coverage of Northwestern North Carolina.
The paper is owned by Media General. The Journal was founded in 1897.
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[edit] Overview
The Journal is primarily distributed through Forsyth County and the county seat of Winston-Salem. However, the paper also is distributed in Alleghany County, Ashe County, Davidson County, Davie County, Stokes County, Surry County, Wilkes County, Watauga County, and Yadkin County.
The paper has a daily circulation of about 82,000 and a Sunday circulation of about 92,000[1].
The newspaper has an online presence called JournalNow. The Journal's television partner is WGHP of High Point, North Carolina.
The paper also produces a weekly entertainment and social tabloid called Relish.
Its editorial-page slant is considered moderate, although its conservative readership often decries its liberal bias and its liberal readers point out that the Journal hasn't endorsed a Democratic Party presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. In 2004, the paper refused to endorse a presidential candidate. [1]
Co-owned for many years with the afternoon newspaper, the Twin City Sentinel, the papers were merged in the 1980s.
WSJS, an AM broadcast radio station in Winston-Salem takes its call letters from "Winston-Salem Journal Sentinel" from the time when the newspapers owned the primary radio and television station outlets in the city.
[edit] Recent cutbacks
In August 2007, the Journal reported it was ending its daily business section and cutting five positions. Two of the positions eliminated were in the newsroom. [2]
[edit] Pulitzer Prizes
- 1971—Meritorious public service, staff; "for coverage of environmental problems, as exemplified by a successful campaign to block strip mining operation that would have caused irreparable damage to the hill country of northwest North Carolina."
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