# Standard Journal

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{{Short description|Newspaper in Rexburg, Idaho}}
{{for|the Pennsylvania newspaper| The Standard-Journal (Milton, PA)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name               = Rexburg Standard Journal
| image              =
| caption            = 
| type               = Twice [weekly newspaper](/source/weekly_newspaper)
| format             = [Broadsheet](/source/Broadsheet)
| founded            = {{Start date| 1887}}
| language           = English
| ceased_publication = 
| owners             = [Adams MultiMedia](/source/Adams_MultiMedia)
| publisher          = Andy Pennington
| editor             = Jeremy Cooley
| circulation        = 2,350
| circulation_date   = 2021
| circulation_ref    = <ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-01 |title=Idaho Circulation Map |url=https://adamspg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/21.04-Idaho-1.pdf |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=Adams Publishing Group}}</ref><br />
| headquarters       = 23 S. 1st E. [Rexburg, Idaho](/source/Rexburg%2C_Idaho) 83440 [United States](/source/United_States)
| oclc               = 52042753
| ISSN               = 1544-3639
| website            = {{URL|rexburgstandardjournal.com}} 
}}

The '''''Standard Journal''''' is a newspaper based in [Rexburg, Idaho](/source/Rexburg%2C_Idaho). It publishes twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gotoanr.com/database/|title=American Newspaper Representatives|website=gotoanr.com|language=en|accessdate=2018-07-22}}</ref> The paper is a member of the Newspapers Association of Idaho.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newspaperassociationofidaho.com/members/|title=Members|work=Newspaper Association of Idaho|access-date=2018-07-23|language=en-US}}</ref>

== History ==
The ''Standard Journal'' has been published under various names since 1888.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History Of Standard Journal |url=https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/about/history/ |access-date=February 14, 2025 |website=Standard Journal}}</ref> It was founded in 1887 as the ''Rexburg Press''; it was later renamed the ''Silver Hammer'' and, in 1898, it was renamed ''Fremont County Journal''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gtc8BQAAQBAJ&dq=Rexburg+Standard+Journal&pg=PA42|title=Rexburg|last1=Parkinson|first1=Lowell J.|last2=Parkinson|first2=Mardi J.|date=2014-10-06|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781439647646|language=en}}</ref> This paper evolved to become the ''Current-Journal''. Because of its strong ties with [the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints](/source/the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints), the ''Current-Journal'' was heavily criticized<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 16, 1906 |title="Won't Stand for It" |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22118520/wont_stand_for_it/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |pages=4 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 9, 1905 |title=Which master? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22121884/which_master/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |pages=6 |language=en}}</ref> in the early 1900s by ''[The Salt Lake Tribune](/source/The_Salt_Lake_Tribune)'', an [anti-Mormon](/source/Anti-Mormonism) paper started by three excommunicated members of the Church.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |title=The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045396/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |work=National Endowment for the Humanities |issn=0746-3502}}</ref>

In February 1908 Arthur Porter and his brother Frank acquired the ''Current-Journal''. According to Arthur Porter, they printed the ''Current-Journal'' and later the ''Rexburg Journal'', as it was later renamed in 1917,<ref name=":0" /> using one of the first printing presses in the west, known as the Prouty Power Press.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 23, 1941 |title=Rexburg Journal Sells Old Time Prouty Power Press as Junk |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22117410/rexburg_journal_sells_old_time_prouty/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=The Post-Register |pages=12 |language=en}}</ref>

In January 1942, Arthur's son John C. Porter and his wife Annette purchased a competing paper called the ''Rexburg'' ''Standard''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 29, 1942 |title=Rexburg Man Buys Paper |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22117539/rexburg_man_buys_paper/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=The Post-Register |pages=4 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=October 19, 1999 |title=Annette Oldham Porter (Obituary) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22117217/annette_oldham_porter_obituary/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=The Mercury |pages=14 |language=en |publication-place=Manhattan, Kansas}}</ref> The ''Standard'' had been started as a Republican newspaper by William and Joseph Adams, who later brought James H. Wallis to a leadership role for the paper.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gtc8BQAAQBAJ&dq=Rexburg+Standard+Journal&pg=PA44|title=Rexburg|last1=Parkinson|first1=Lowell J.|last2=Parkinson|first2=Mardi J.|date=2014-10-06|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781439647646|language=en}}</ref>

The newspaper, now the ''Standard Journal'',<ref name=":2" /> remained in the hands of John C. Porter and eventually his son and daughter-in-law, Roger O. and Bernie Porter,<ref name=":1" /> until December 1999, when the ''Standard Journal'' was purchased by [Pioneer News Group](/source/Pioneer_News_Group), a small family-owned media company composed of small- to medium-sized community newspapers throughout the Northwest.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 26, 2000 |title=Pioneer Newspapers buys 2 Idaho Papers |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |pages=25}}</ref>

In November 2017, the ''Standard Journal'' was purchased by [Adams Publishing Group](/source/Adams_Publishing_Group) as part of its acquisition of the Pioneer Media Group media division.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 5, 2017 |title=Adams Publishing Group buys regional papers |url=http://www.postregister.com/articles/news-daily-email-todays-headlines/2017/10/05/adams-publishing-group-buys-regional-papers |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213132510/https://www.postregister.com/articles/news-daily-email-todays-headlines/2017/10/05/adams-publishing-group-buys-regional-papers/ |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |access-date=February 14, 2025 |work=Post Register |language=en}}</ref>

== Notable coverage and national attention ==
An editorial in the ''Idaho State Times'' in 1974 called attention to the ''Standard Journal's'' reporting on magazine censorship in Rexburg.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Shumate |first=Gene |date=June 21, 1974 |title=Censorship in Rexburg |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22116894/censorship_in_rexburg/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=Idaho State Journal |pages=4 |language=en}}</ref> According to the author of the editorial, Rexburg's Prosecuting Attorney set up a committee to review and ban magazines they deemed as having objectionable content.

On June 5, 1976, the city of Rexburg was severely damaged when the [Teton Dam](/source/Teton_Dam) collapsed and flooded the Teton Valley.<ref name="CD404">{{cite book|title=[Cadillac Desert](/source/Cadillac_Desert)|author=Marc Reisner|isbn=0-14-017824-4|year=1993|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cadillacdesertam00reis/page/404 404]}}</ref> The ''Standard Journal's'' printing equipment was destroyed when a wall of water 6 feet high passed through downtown Rexburg and flooded the building where the paper was published.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Lobb |first=Clark |date=June 8, 1976 |title=Rexburg Devastation Overwhelming - Real Story of Courage |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22117784/rexburg_devastation_overwhelming_real/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |pages=1 |language=en}}</ref> Roger O. Porter, publisher of the ''Standard Journal'', still published an edition of the paper three days later using the printing facilities at Ricks College (which later became [BYU-Idaho](/source/BYU-Idaho)).<ref name=":3" /> The paper's headline was "Devastating Flood Waters Can't Drown Our Spirits."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Raine |first=George |title=Flood-Hit Area Waits Redress From U.S. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22102082/spirits_high_despite_devastation_the/ |access-date=2018-07-22 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |pages=17–18 |language=en}}</ref> Porter also documented the devastation by taking aerial photographs of the Teton Valley, many of which are now included in the book ''The Teton Dam Disaster''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gOdCu_NSma0C&dq=Rexburg+Standard+Journal&pg=PA51|title=The Teton Dam Disaster|last=McDonald|first=Dylan J.|date=2006|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738548616|language=en}}</ref> The Idaho Newspaper Association established a benefit fund for the paper,<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 11, 1976 |title=Help requested for paper ruined in Rexburg flood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22118037/help_requested_for_paper_ruined_in/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=Idaho Free Press |pages=2 |language=en}}</ref> and Porter was able to secure [Small Business Administration](/source/Small_Business_Administration) loans to rebuild the paper.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lichtenstein |first=Grace |date=January 2, 1977 |title=Residents Are Divided on Rebuilding of Teton Dam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/02/archives/residents-are-divided-on-rebuilding-of-teton-dam.html |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=The New York Times |pages=20 |language=en}}</ref>

The city of Rexburg received international attention in 2008, one day after President [Barack Obama](/source/Barack_Obama)'s election, when the ''Standard Journal'' reported that school children riding the bus were chanting "assassinate Obama."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sunderland |first=Nathan |date=November 20, 2008 |title=Rexburg becomes center of the storm |url=https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/rexburg-becomes-center-of-the-storm/article_a832397a-e361-5d53-b04e-b17790972cc0.html |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=Standard Journal |language=en}}</ref> The story was later voted as one of the "Top 10 stories in 2008 in the upper valley" by the editors and reporters for the ''Standard Journal''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 31, 2008 |title=Top 10 stories in 2008 in the upper valley |url=https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/top-stories-in-in-the-upper-valley/article_996b8cad-a50d-598d-9601-e48dd9c01f98.html |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=Standard Journal |language=en}}</ref>

The paper was cited by numerous papers in 2017 for its reporting on the lead-up to the [full solar eclipse](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21%2C_2017) that year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 13, 2017 |title=News from across the USA {{!}} Idaho |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22122078/rexburg_solar_eclipse/ |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=Green Bay Press-Gazette |pages=B4 |language=en |publication-place=Green Bay, Wisconsin}}</ref> The ''Standard Journal'' reported that the city of Rexburg's population was set to double on the day of the solar eclipse, due to its central viewing location.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Idaho Office of Emergency Management press release |first= |date=August 10, 2017 |title=Total solar eclipse expected to draw unprecedented numbers of visitors |url=https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/idaho/total-solar-eclipse-expected-to-draw-unprecedented-numbers-of-visitors/article_db988e95-0e8e-53f5-8b99-c9b91ac53f49.html |access-date=2018-07-23 |work=Standard Journal |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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Category:Madison County, Idaho
Category:Newspapers published in Idaho
Category:1887 establishments in Idaho Territory
Category:Newspapers established in 1887

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