{{Short description|Canadian daily newspaper}} {{Lead too short|date=April 2026}} {{Use Canadian English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Edmonton Journal | logo = 150px|center | image = border|Front Page - May 16, 2013 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1903<ref name="historical information" /> | owners = Postmedia Network | publisher = | chief_editor = Lorne Motley<ref>[http://business.financialpost.com/news/postmedia-integrating-four-major-market-newsrooms-following-sun-acquisition Postmedia integrating four major market newsrooms following Sun acquisition] Financial Post. Retrieved January 2016.</ref> | language = English | circulation = 91,776 weekdays<br /> 96,372 Saturdays | circulation_date = 2015 | circulation_ref = <ref name="Circulation 2015">{{cite web|url=https://nmc-mic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2015-Daily-Newspaper-Circulation-Report-by-Title-SPREADSHEET_FINAL.xlsx|title=2015 Daily Newspaper Circulation Spreadsheet (Excel)|work=News Media Canada|access-date=16 December 2017}} Numbers are based on the total circulation (print plus digital editions).</ref> | headquarters = 10006 101 Street<br />Edmonton, Alberta<br />T5J 0S1 | sister_newspapers = ''Calgary Herald'' | ISSN = 0839-296X | website = {{URL|https://edmontonjournal.com/}} }}
The '''''Edmonton Journal''''' is a newspaper published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is part of the Postmedia Network. It comes out Monday to Saturday, with a print edition printed Tuesday to Saturday.<ref>https://mediaincanada.com/2022/09/22/nine-postmedia-newspapers-cancel-their-monday-print-editions/</ref>
==History== Three Edmonton businessmen - John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham - founded The ''Journal'' in 1903 as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Liberal-Party-friendly ''Edmonton Bulletin''. Within a week, the ''Journal'' took over another newspaper, ''The Edmonton Post'', and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative Party against the ''Bulletin'''s stance for the Liberal Party. In 1912, the ''Journal'' was sold to the Southam family.<ref name="historical information">{{cite web|url=http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/info/history.html |title=Edmonton Journal Historical Information |publisher=Edmonton Journal |access-date=November 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512192517/http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/info/history.html |archive-date=May 12, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger International.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Hollinger-International-Inc-Company-History.html |title=Hollinger International Inc. – Company History|publisher=Funding Universe |access-date=April 7, 2011}}</ref> The ''Journal'' was subsequently sold to Canwest in 2000,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/31763 |title=CanWest Global Communications Corp. acquired Hollinger newspaper chain |date=August 1, 2000 |publisher=Digital Journal |access-date=April 7, 2011}}</ref> and finally came under its current ownership, Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010.<ref name="Godfrey group buys Canwest">[https://nationalpost.com/Godfrey+group+buys+Canwest/3011064/story.html Godfrey group buys Canwest]{{dead link|date=October 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} ''The National Post'', May 11, 2010</ref>
thumb|left|Edmonton Journal building In 1905, ''The Journal'' began operating from a building on the corner of 102nd Avenue and 101st Street. Its present location at 101st Street and 100th Avenue was established in 1921, and Alberta's first radio station, CJCA, began broadcasting from the building a year later.<ref name="historical information" />
In 1937, the ''Journal'' engaged in constant criticism of the government of William Aberhart and it opposed the government's passage of the ''Accurate News and Information Act'', which, if made into law, would have required newspapers to print government rebuttals to stories the provincial cabinet deemed "inaccurate". After successfully fighting the law, the ''Journal'' became the first non-American newspaper to be honoured by the Pulitzer Prize committee, receiving a special bronze plaque in 1938 for defending the freedom of the press.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Special-Awards-and-Citations |title=The Pulitzer Prizes – Special Awards and Citations |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=April 7, 2011}}</ref>
For 19 months, from May 1946 and early 1948, the Edmonton Journal and The Bulletin were published as one newspaper due to a printers' strike.<ref>Voice of a City, p. 195</ref>
On January 2, 1948, The Journal resumed a separate existence, and it never did settle with the striking members of the International Typographical Union.<ref>Voice of a City, p. 195</ref>
thumb|left|alt=Edmonton Journal Building – from 101 street (2023)|Edmonton Journal Building (2023) After the ''Bulletin'' folded in 1951, the ''Journal'' was for a time Edmonton's only daily newspaper. The monopoly ended when the ''Edmonton Sun'' began publishing in 1978.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sun Media Corporation|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sun-media-corporation/|publisher=The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date=September 25, 2009}}</ref> Around 2020, the Journal ceased being a daily newspaper when it stopped publishing Sunday issues.
In 1982, government officials under the Combines Investigation Act entered and searched the paper's offices under the suspicion that Southam Newspapers was violating federal legislation by engaging in unfair trading and anti-competitive business practices.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Court of Appeal series: Four cases that changed Alberta|url=http://www.edmontonjournal.com/court+appeal+series+four+cases+that+changed+alberta/9668782/story.html|last=Ellwand|first=Otiena|website=edmontonjournal.com|language=en-ca|access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref> The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled the search to be inconsistent with the ''Charter of Rights and Freedoms'', a decision the Supreme Court of Canada upheld in ''Hunter v Southam Inc''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hunter v Southam Case {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hunter-v-southam-case|website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref>
==Present day== Today, the ''Journal'' publishes six days a week (the Monday edition being an e-version). Regular sections include News (city, Canada, and world), Sports, Opinion, A&E, Life, and Business. The newspaper participated in the Critics and Awards Program for High School Students (Cappies),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cappies.com/cge/ |title=Cappies of Greater Edmonton |publisher=The Cappies |access-date=September 9, 2013 |format=Excel}}</ref> now called the Alberta Youth Theatre Collective, and has partnerships with a number of arts organizations in Edmonton, including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Alberta Ballet Company. It also supports community events such as the Canspell National Spelling Bee.<ref name="About the Edmonton Journal">{{cite web |url=https://edmontonjournal.com/about-edmonton-journal/aboutus.html |title=About Us |publisher=Edmonton Journal |access-date=September 9, 2013 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928200230/http://www.edmontonjournal.com/about-edmonton-journal/aboutus.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The ''Journal'' also operates under a commitment to digital media in addition to traditional print.<ref name="About the Edmonton Journal" />
In 2014, Postmedia Network, the owner of the Edmonton Journal, purchased several newspapers and websites from Quebecor. This made it that both the Edmonton Journal and its competitor, the Edmonton Sun were both owned by Postmedia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quebecor sells off Sun newspaper chain to Postmedia {{!}} Globalnews.ca |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/1600039/quebecor-sells-off-sun-newspaper-chain-to-postmedia/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Global News |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2016 it was announced that the Journal and Sun's newsrooms and operations would be merged while both newspapers would continue to be published. This also led to the cuts of many staff between the two papers.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Postmedia integrating four major market newsrooms, including in Edmonton, following Sun acquisition |url=https://edmontonjournal.com/business/local-business/postmedia-integrating-four-major-market-newsrooms-including-in-edmonton-following-sun-acquisition |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624024626/https://edmontonjournal.com/business/local-business/postmedia-integrating-four-major-market-newsrooms-including-in-edmonton-following-sun-acquisition |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |access-date=2025-03-23 |work=edmontonjournal |language=en-CA |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Circulation == The ''Edmonton Journal'' has suffered a decline in circulation, like most Canadian daily newspapers. Its total circulation dropped by {{formatnum: {{#expr: abs(100 - (92542 / 118620 * 100)) round 0}}}} percent to 92,542 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.<ref name="Circulation">{{cite web|url=https://nmc-mic.ca/about-newspapers/circulation/daily-newspapers/|title=Daily Newspaper Circulation Data|work=News Media Canada|access-date=16 December 2017}}</ref>
{{Image frame | caption = Daily average<ref name="Circulation Chart">{{cite web|url=https://nmc-mic.ca/about-newspapers/circulation/daily-newspapers/|title=Daily Newspaper Circulation Data|work=News Media Canada|access-date=16 December 2017}} Figures refer to the total circulation (print and digital combined) which includes paid and unpaid copies.</ref> | content = {{ #invoke:Chart | bar chart | height = 270 | width = 360 | group 1 = 118620:108021:103416:101950:97221:99631:92542 | colors = DarkCyan | units suffix = Copies | group names = | x legends = 2009:2010:2011:2012:2013:2014:2015 }} }}
==See also== {{Portal|Canada|Journalism}} *List of newspapers in Canada
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{official website|https://edmontonjournal.com}} ** [https://edmontonjournal.com/about-edmonton-journal/aboutus.html Historical] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928200230/http://www.edmontonjournal.com/about-edmonton-journal/aboutus.html |date=September 28, 2020 }} ** [https://edmontonjournal.com/columnists/index.html Columnists]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ** [https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/blogs/index.html '' Blogs''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905080428/http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/blogs/index.html |date=September 5, 2015 }}
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