Lansing State Journal

Infobox_Newspaper
name = Lansing State Journal


caption = The July 27, 2005 front page
of the "Lansing State Journal"
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = April 28, 1855
owners = Gannett Company
headquarters = 120 E. Lenawee St.
Lansing, MI 48919
USA
editor = Mickey Hirten
publisher = Brian Priester
circulation = 58,948 [cite web |url=http://www.accessabc.com/index.html |title=Audit Bureau of Circulations |accessdate=2008-07-07|]
website = [http://www.lsj.com/ www.lsj.com]

The "Lansing State Journal" is a daily newspaper published in Lansing, Michigan owned by Gannett.

History

The paper was started as the Lansing Republican on April 28, 1855. Founder and publisher Henry Beard completed only two issues of the weekly abolitionist publication before selling it and returning to Detroit.

Over the next 50 years, the paper saw many name changes and many different owners, finally merging with another newspaper and becoming the State Journal in 1911.

Gannett bought the paper in 1971, and it became the Lansing State Journal on August 25, 1980. On April 15, 1985 it went from an afternoon publication to a morning one, that it is still today.

Its current circulation is 65,886 morning; 80,006 Sunday.

The paper also has a subperiodical called "NOISE", which covers local entertainment.

External links

* [http://www.lsj.com Lansing State Journal homepage]
* [http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/contactus/circulation/nie.html Lansing Newspapers in Education program] , provides free newspapers to more than 150 classrooms in over 85 schools
* [http://www.gannett.com/about/map/ataglance/lansin.htm Gannett subsidiary profile of the "Lansing State Journal"]

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