{{about|the Ohio newspaper||Journal News (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Hamilton Journal News | logo = Journal News, Ohio (2003-12-15).svg | image = JournalNews front cover.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = The 2009-07-09 front cover of the <br />''JournalNews''. | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = | ceased_publication = November 1, 2013 | price = | owners = Cox Enterprises | Publisher = | Editor = | language = English | circulation = | headquarters = | ISSN = | website = }} '''''Hamilton JournalNews''''' was a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Hamilton, Ohio, and owned by Cox Media Group. The paper covered news in Hamilton and outlying areas. In September 2013, Cox Media Group Ohio announced that, effective November 1, the ''Hamilton JournalNews'' would be merged with ''The Middletown Journal'' into a new paper, the ''Journal-News''.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2013/09/17/daily-newspapers-merge-in-butler.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131007025639/http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2013/09/17/daily-newspapers-merge-in-butler.html| archive-date = 2013-10-07| title = Cox Media newspapers merge in Butler, Warren counties - Cincinnati Business Courier}}</ref>
==Awards== The ''Hamilton JournalNews'' brought award-winning news and information to readers in the Hamilton area since 1886. More than once it was named Best Newspaper in Ohio by The Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for its circulation. The paper also received the first-place General Excellence Award by the Associated Press.
==History== The newspaper has a history going back to 1879:<ref>[https://sites.google.com/a/lanepl.org/jbcols/2012-articles/2012-will-be-remembered-as-year-hamilton-lost-its-daily-newspaper-publication-based-in-city-since-1879 publication based in city since 1879] by Jim Blount</ref> *Dec. 11, 1879 debut of the '''''Hamilton Daily News''''' *Dec. 20, 1886 debut of the '''''Daily Democrat''''' (an upgrade of the weekly ''Butler County Democrat'') *June 18, 1902 debut of the '''''Hamilton Daily Sun''''' *Aug. 12, 1907 merger of dailies Democrat and Sun form the '''''Hamilton Democrat-Sun''''' *Jan. 8, 1908 name change of Democrat-Sun to '''''Hamilton Evening Journal''''', the ''Evening Journal'' becomes one of 18 charter members of the Associated Press *Feb. 6, 1933 merger of the ''Evening Journal'' and ''Daily News'' to form the '''''Hamilton Journal-News'''''<ref>"One Newspaper Now in Hamilton" Feb. 4, 1933 in ''Cincinnati Times-Star'': "suspension of the Daily News, Hamilton’s oldest newspaper, and its merger with the Hamilton Evening Journal officially was announced today" .. "financial difficulties resulted in a reorganization in 1929" .. "continued difficulties followed, however, and the paper was placed in the hands of a receiver"</ref> *Nov. 1, 2013 merger of dailies ''Hamilton JournalNews'' and ''Middletown Journal'' into the new ''Journal-News''.
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==External links== {{Portal|Ohio}} * [https://www.journal-news.com/ Official Site] :*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130704140629/http://m.journal-news.com/ Official mobile site] * [https://www.facebook.com/journalnews Hamilton Journal-News.com] official Facebook page {{COX}}
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Ohio Category:Cox Newspapers Category:Hamilton, Ohio Category:1886 establishments in Ohio
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