{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} '''''Downtown Journal''''', founded during the 1970s<ref name=bizjournals /> as a print newspaper, was an online and print newspaper serving Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. The paper covered the Minneapolis Mill District, Loring Park, North Loop, Elliot Park and the Mississippi riverfront.<ref name=bizjournals>{{cite news|title=Skyway News to become Downtown Journal|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2005/07/11/daily14.html|date=July 12, 2005|work=Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal|publisher=American City Business Journals|accessdate=2008-10-07}}</ref>

Minnesota Premier Publications, Inc., its parent company, acquired the paper as the ''Skyway News'' in 2001 and renamed it ''Downtown Journal'' in September 2005.<ref name=bizjournals /> MPP also publishes ''Southwest Journal'', ''Minnesota Parent'' and ''Minnesota Good Age''. In April 2007, MPP redesigned its Web sites to concentrate more on online news;<ref>{{cite press release|title=MPP announces revamped dtjournal.com|url=http://www.mnpubs.com/index.php?publication=mpp&section=45&page=50&readmore=70|publisher=Minnesota Premier Publications|date=2007-04-30|accessdate=2007-08-27}}</ref> and, in July of that year, the ''Downtown Journal'' became a biweekly in print.<ref>{{cite news|author=Wyant, Carissa|title=Downtown Journal scales back publishing schedule|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2007/07/09/daily42.html|work=Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal|publisher=American City Business Journals|date=2007-07-13|accessdate=2007-08-29}}</ref>

The Downtown Journal ceased publication in December, 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.journalmpls.com/|title=The Journal|website=The Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref>

==See also== * Media in Minneapolis-St. Paul

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * ''[http://www.downtownjournal.com/ Downtown Journal]''

Category:Newspapers published in Minnesota Category:American news websites Category:Mass media in Minneapolis–Saint Paul

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