Milwaukee Sentinel - Definition and Overview

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee and is distributed widely throughout the state of Wisconsin. The Journal Sentinel has a weekday circulation of 250 000 copies and a Sunday circulation of over 400 000.

History

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, for some time.

The Sentinel began in 1837 as a weekly published by Solomon Juneau, a businessman who became the first mayor of Milwaukee. It was then owned by the Hearst Corporation until the Journal bought it out in 1962. The Sentinel was an afternoon tabloid that ran Monday through Saturday and was the oldest continuously operating business in Wisconsin until it ceased printing in 1995.

The Journal was started in 1882. Its first editor was a man named Lucius Nieman, who wanted to steer the paper away from the bias and yellow journalism of the day. The paper won five Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other awards. The Journal was a daily morning broadsheet like the Journal Sentinel of today.

External links

• JS Online, the Journal Sentinel website (http://jsonline.com/)
• JS background page (http://www.jsonline.com/recruitment/about.asp)