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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Journal Publishing Company |
| Publisher | T.H. Lang |
| Editor | Editor, Kent Walz Managing Editor, Karen Moses Politics and Government: John Robertson, Steve Williams |
| Founded | 1880 (as the Albuquerque Daily Journal) |
| Headquarters | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Circulation | 96,825 Daily 116,826 Sunday[1] |
| ISSN | 1526-5137 |
| Official website | abqjournal.com |
The Albuquerque Journal is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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Its earliest predecessor, the Albuquerque Daily Journal, was first published on October 14, 1880.[2] The newspaper is owned (and editorially controlled) by the Journal Publishing Company, a family-owned business headed by president/publisher T.H. Lang; it is operated by the Albuquerque Publishing Company.[2]
On February 20, 1933, during the Great Depression, the Journal and The Albuquerque Tribune became the first newspapers to create what was later called a Joint Operating Agreement (JOA).[3] This first JOA created the Albuquerque Publishing Company, in probable violation of anti-trust laws at the time.[3] The new company was a partnership which took over all non-editorial departments of the two papers and gave the Tribune a fixed percentage (about 40%) of the combined revenues of the two newspapers, regardless of circulation.[3]
After the E. W. Scripps Company shut down the Tribune on February 23, 2008, it retained its ~40% stake in the Albuquerque Publishing Company.[4] As a result, Scripps gets a corresponding share in any future Journal profits.[4]
During the 2004 presidential election, the Journal endorsed George W. Bush.[5] During the 2006 midterm elections, it endorsed 1st Congressional district candidate Heather Wilson (R).[6]
The Albuquerque Journal is published Monday through Saturday and features "Sports," "Metro & NM" and "Business" sections as well as a front section with staff reports, wire reports, editorials, and op-eds. in its weekday edition. The paper also features special sections covering topics such as a local spelling bee or New Mexico high school basketball tournaments.
The Sunday Journal is published on Sundays.[7]
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