- Commonwealth Journal
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Commonwealth Journal Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Publisher Jack McNeely Editor Ken Shmidheiser Founded 1895 Headquarters 110-112 E Mount Vernon St
Somerset, Kentucky 42501
United StatesCirculation 8,971 daily[1] Official website somerset-kentucky.com The Commonwealth Journal is a is a six-day (Tuesday through Sunday) morning daily newspaper based in Somerset, Kentucky, and covering Pulaski County. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. The writing staff are listed; Tricia Neal, Jeff Neal, Chris Harris, Heather Pyles, and Bill Mardis.
Founded separately as the Somerset Journal (1895) and The Commonwealth (1912), Somerset's two weekly newspapers began sharing office space and presses in the 1930s, eventually merging to become the Monday-Friday daily Commonwealth Journal January 3, 1966. The local owners added a Sunday edition October 31, 1982, before selling the paper to Park Newspapers on May 1, 1988. Park in turn sold the Commonwealth Journal in February 1997 to Media General, which dealt it to CNHI a year later.[2]
See also Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance
External links
References
- ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 19, 2007.
- ^ Commonwealth Journal: About Us, accessed January 19, 2007.
Categories:- Daily newspapers published by Community Newspaper Holdings
- Newspapers published in Kentucky
- Pulaski County, Kentucky
- Southern United States newspaper stubs
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