{{Short description|Newspaper in Topeka, Kansas}} {{Redirect|The Capital-Journal|the South Dakota paper|Capital Journal|the Salem, Oregon, newspaper|Capital Journal (Oregon)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | image = Topeka-journal.png | image_size = 225px | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = Topeka Daily Capital: 1879 (with heritage dating to 1858)<br>Topeka State Journal: 1873<br>Topeka Capital-Journal: 1981 | owners = USA Today Co. | headquarters = 100 SE 9th Street, Suite 500<br>Topeka, Kansas 66612<br>USA | editor = Tomari Quinn | publisher = Stephen Wade | circulation = 18,388 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Browse Full Member Database {{!}} Kansas Press Association |url=https://kspress.com/directory/browse-full-member-database |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=kspress.com}}</ref> | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''''The Topeka Capital-Journal''''' is a daily newspaper in Topeka, Kansas, owned by the USA Today Co.
==History==
The paper was formed following numerous name changes and mergers, including the merger of ''The Topeka Daily Capital'' and ''The Topeka State Journal''.
===Timeline=== thumb|upright|''Capital-Journal'' newsroom, 1961
* 1858: The ''Kansas State Record'' starts publishing. * 1873: The ''Topeka Blade'' is founded by J. Clarke Swayze. * 1879: George W. Reed buys the ''Blade'' and changes its name to ''The Kansas State Journal''. * 1879: ''The Topeka Daily Capital'' is founded by Major J.K. Hudson as an evening paper but changes to morning in 1881. * 1885: Frank P. MacLennan buys the ''Journal'' and renames it ''The Topeka State Journal''. * 1888: The ''Capital'' absorbs the ''Commonwealth'', owned by Floyd Perry Baker and his sons, who had earlier bought the ''Kansas State Record''. * 1899: Frederick Oliver Popenoe buys a 51 percent controlling interest in the ''Capital''. * 1900: Charles M. Sheldon, saying "Newspapers should be operated as Christ would operate them," sends the ''Capital'' circulation skyrocketing from 12,000 to 387,000, forcing it to print papers in New York and Chicago. * 1901: Arthur Capper buys the ''Capital'' and becomes sole owner in 1904. * 1940: Oscar S. Stauffer buys the ''Journal''. * 1951: Capper dies, and the ''Capital'' become employee-owned. * 1956: Stauffer Communications buys Capper Publications, including the ''Capital''. * 1962: Former MacLennan home Cedar Crest becomes the Kansas governor's mansion. * 1973: Brian Lanker wins the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a series of photos of a childbirth, as exemplified by the image titled "Moment of Life". * 1975: Susan Ford (daughter of Gerald Ford) and Chris Johns (future editor of ''National Geographic'' magazine) intern at paper during the summer.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hall |first=Mike |title=Ford's Daughter Susan Interned at C-J |newspaper=Topeka Capital-Journal |date=December 28, 2006 |url=http://cjonline.com/stories/122806/loc_forddaughter.shtml }}</ref> * 1981: Stauffer Communications merges the ''Capital'' and the ''Journal'' into ''The Topeka Capital-Journal'', distributed in the morning. * 1982: Former owner Oscar S. Stauffer dies at 95. * 1994: Stauffer Communications merges with Morris Communications.<ref name="1994sale">[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mfYfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nfwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1368,3973284&dq= Morris buys Stauffer], ''Fort Scott Tribune'', July 27, 1994</ref> * 2017: Morris Communications sells its newspapers to GateHouse Media.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Morris Announces Sale of Publications to Gatehouse Media.| work = Morris Communications| access-date = 2018-02-19| date = 2017-08-09| url = http://www.morris.com/content/morris-announces-sale-of-publications-to-gatehouse-media/}}</ref> * 2019: GateHouse Media's corporate parent company, New Media Investment Group, announces that it will acquire Gannett and assume its name.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Lombardo|first1=Cara|last2=Trachtenberg|first2=Jeffrey A.|date=August 5, 2019|title=GateHouse Media Parent to Buy Gannett for $1.4 Billion|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/gatehouse-media-parent-to-buy-gannett-for-1-4-billion-11565031875|url-access=subscription|work=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-05|title=GateHouse Media enters into agreement to acquire Gannett, forming largest U.S. publishing company|url=https://www.cjonline.com/zz/news/20190805/gatehouse-media-enters-into-agreement-to-acquire-gannett-forming-largest-us-publishing-company|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031104412/https://www.cjonline.com/zz/news/20190805/gatehouse-media-enters-into-agreement-to-acquire-gannett-forming-largest-us-publishing-company|archive-date=2020-10-31|access-date=2020-10-31|website=The Topeka Capital-Journal }}</ref> * 2023: The paper announces it's switching from carrier to mail delivery via the U.S. Postal Service.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 29, 2023 |title=The Topeka Capital-Journal is transitioning to postal delivery in late January |url=https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2023/12/29/topeka-capital-journal-transitioning-postal-delivery/72052167007/ |archive-date= |access-date=December 29, 2023 |website=The Topeka Capital-Journal}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Kansas|Journalism}} * List of newspapers in Kansas
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{Citation|title = The Capital-Journal's roots run deep|newspaper = The Topeka Capital-Journal|date = June 1, 2003|url = http://cjonline.com/stories/060103/new_roots.shtml }}
==External links== * {{Official website}}
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