- The Ithaca Journal
"The Ithaca Journal" is a daily morning
broadsheet newspaper published inIthaca, New York . It is locally edited and printed inJohnson City, New York and publishes Monday through Saturday. It is owned byGannett .Publications
Daily newspaper
"The Ithaca Journal" publishes a daily morning newspaper Monday through Saturday. No edition is printed on Sundays.
Starting on
March 27 ,2006 , "The Ithaca Journal" included four sections Monday through Friday.The first section includes local, national and international news. The second section includes several pages of city and county news and sports. The third section, which was launched
March 27 ,2006 , is called Life. The front of this section includes a rotating selection of features:*Mondays: Food and Personal Finance
*Tuesdays: Outdoors & Recreation and Family
*Wednesdays: Science & Environment
*Thursdays: Health
*Fridays: House & GardenIn addition, Life also includes an Arts & Entertainment page that includes entertainment and celebrity news, TV listings and
Amy Dickinson 's advice column. There is also a full page of comics and puzzles. Business and personal finance news appears on a page called Dollars & Sense.The fourth section is entirely
classified advertising . On Saturdays, the classified ads expand to two sections.Starting
June 17 ,2006 , The Journal added a Life section on Saturdays. This day's focus will be Travel, a feature that currently appears in Saturday's main news section. Also on June 17, The Journal will add a separate Sports section in addition to the two news sections, Life and two classified sections, bringing the total number of sections to six.Offices
"The Ithaca Journal" is located on West State Street in downtown Ithaca. The Journal's offices spread over two buildings; the newspaper's original building and the neighboring Greenstate Building.
The newsroom is located on the second floor of the original building with various administrative offices on the first floor. The first floor of Greenstate building houses the newspaper's public lobby as well as the
advertising offices.Much of the newspaper's general administrative operations are handled from the
Binghamton, New York offices of thePress & Sun Bulletin .Behind the original building, on Green Street, is the newspaper's old press facility. This press has been unused since June 10, 2006 when printing was transferred to the
Gannett Central New York Production Facility .Ticket and Cortland Ticket
On Thursdays a
tabloid -sized insert called "Ticket" is included in "The Ithaca Journal". "Ticket" includes local arts and entertainment news and events calendar. A similar publication, "Cortland Ticket", is included in newspapers sold in theCortland, New York area on Fridays.Buzz
"The Ithaca Journal" produces a youth-oriented tabloid-sized publication called "Buzz" every week. The publication is distributed at no cost at retail locations and vending machines throughout the area and features stories of interest to a younger audience as well as an events calendar. "Buzz" is also distributed in the markets of "The Ithaca Journal's" sister publications, the Binghamton
Press & Sun-Bulletin andElmira Star-Gazette .History
Founded in
1815 as the "Seneca Republican", it was renamed "The Ithaca Journal" in1823 . According to the its Web site (see links below), the first daily edition of paper was published in1870 and its offices are housed in the same building it has occupied since1905 ."The Journal" was purchased by
Frank E. Gannett in1912 , thereby becoming the second localnewspaper of what would later become the media conglomerateGannett Co, Inc. It merged with the "Daily News" in1919 and officially adopted the name "The Ithaca Journal-News", although it is published under the name "The Ithaca Journal".Among its stars were Kenneth Van Sickle, the long-time sports editor who had a popular column for decades, covering everything from Cornell and Ithaca College to high schools to local recreatioal sports.
The newspaper in 1985, under Managing Editor Joseph Junod, won Best of Gannett for Sports Coverage for its weekly Softball magazine. At that time, the Journal also was home to three photographers, whose work was noted throughout Gannett and the newspaper industry.
In May
1996 , "The Journal" switched to a morning printing and distribution schedule after many years as an afternoon daily. Until that point, the newspaper run byCornell University students, "TheCornell Daily Sun " had been the only morning daily paper in the city.On
June 12 ,2006 , the newspaper's printing facilities were relocated to the Gannett Central New York Production Facility inJohnson City, New York , located outside of Binghamton, New York. This new facility also houses the printing facilities for the BinghamtonPress & Sun-Bulletin andElmira Star-Gazette , both daily newspapers owned by Gannett.Following this relocation, "The Ithaca Journal's" existing building will be renovated to include expanded office space.
In late 2006, The Ithaca Journal laid off some of its Ithaca-based circulation, marketing and advertising staff. The newspaper's circulation and marketing needs are now managed out of the Binghamton office.
Pulitzer
"The Journal" was awarded a
Pulitzer Prize special citation in1964 for meritorious public service.Criticism
Reflecting Ithaca's left-liberal political climate, "The Journal" has been frequently criticized throughout its history as pro-war and pro-corporate. Critics have pointed out that the newspaper strongly supported the
Vietnam War , headlining an editorial in1967 "U.S. Troops Must Stay in Vietnam," and condemned protests of the first Persian Gulf War as "unrealistic" in1991 . Prior toWorld War II , "The Journal", as with many American newspapers of the era, praised Europe's dictators. "No objective critic can fail to see that, viewed by the practical standard, [Fascism] has been, on the whole, a success," pronounced a1932 editorial.Nevertheless, the paper is not immune to criticism from the right; in recent years, particular attention has been paid to left-leaning Editorial page editor John Carberry. "The Journal" has also consistently endorsed Democratic Party candidates for federal offices in recent years.
External links
* [http://www.theithacajournal.com/ Official "Journal" Web site]
* [http://gannett.com/ Gannett Co.]
* [http://www.gannett.com/about/map/ataglance/ithac.htm Gannett subsidiary profile of "The Ithaca Journal"]
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