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The ''Journal Star'' is the major daily newspaper for Peoria, Illinois, and surrounding area. First owned locally, then employee-owned, it became a Copley-owned entity in 1996. In 2007, the paper was sold to Fairport, New York-based GateHouse Media.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GateHouse Completes $380 Million Purchase Of Copley Midwest Papers )〕 ==History== The oldest ancestor of the ''Journal Star'', the ''Peoria Daily Transcript'', was founded by N.C. Nason and first published on December 17, 1855.〔 It has a daily circulation of approximately 65,000 copies and a Sunday circulation of 90,350 copies. The ''Peoria Journal'' founded as an afternoon paper by Eugene F. Baldwin, the owner of the ''El Paso Journal'' and a former editor of the ''Daily Transcript'', and J. B. Barnes, and first publisher on December 3, 1877. Henry Means Pindell started the ''Peoria Herald'' in 1889; and soon bought out the ''Daily Transcript'', forming the ''Herald-Transcript''. Baldwin, who had since left the ''Journal'', started the ''Peoria Star'', with Charles M. Powell on November 7, 1897. Pindell bought the ''Journal'' in 1900, sold the ''Herald-Transcript'' in 1902, and, after that newspaper had become the ''Transcript'', bought it back in 1916 and merged it with the ''Journal'', creating the ''Peoria Journal-Transcript'', with the ''Transcript'' in the morning and the ''Journal'' in the afternoon. In 1944, the ''Journal'' and ''Transcript'' and their rival ''Star'' combined presses as Peoria Newspapers Inc. with the ''Star'' as a morning paper and the ''Journal-Transcript'' as an afternoon paper, but retained their competition in journalism until 1954, when a full merger was agreed to. Once the agreement was reached, both the morning and afternoon papers immediately changed their names to the ''Journal Star''. To hold the merged newspaper, the current newspaper headquarters were built near War Memorial Drive (U.S. Route 150) and the McClugage Bridge; the first edition from the new presses was on November 14, 1955.〔 During a newspaper strike in 1958, members of the Newspaper Guild printed a temporary paper, ''The Peoria Citizen''.〔 The ''Peoria Journal Star'' has owned and operated various television and radio outlets in Peoria, Bloomington, Lafayette, Indiana, and Indianapolis, Indiana. In the 1980 presidential election, the ''Journal Star'' endorsed Libertarian candidate Ed Clark.〔Doherty, Brian. ''Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement'', pg. 414〕 Between 1984 and 1990, the ''Journal Star'' Employee Stock Ownership Plan bought about 83 percent of the company, making it effectively employee-owned. It company also bought the ''Galesburg Register-Mail'' of Galesburg, Illinois, in 1989. However, the success for the employees had the opposite effect for the company itself, as it had to buy back stock of large numbers of early retirees. The paper was sold to Copley Press, owned by Helen Copley, in 1996; Copley also owned the downstate Illinois papers the ''State Journal-Register'' in Springfield, Illinois and the ''Lincoln Courier''. When Copley purchased the paper in 1996, the daily circulation was 75,000+. According to a Knight Foundation report in 2005, the ''Journal Star'' circulation is now 65,126. The ''Journal Star'' is the highest-circulation newspaper in downstate Illinois and the fourth-highest circulation Illinois newspaper. As of September 2006, the ''Journal Star'' was the 136th-largest newspaper in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top 200 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation ) 〕 Being a paper-boy for the paper in the 1950s was potentially very rewarding. In addition to the comradeship around the paper-boy drop-off points, the paper ran periodic contests to expand its circulation. Out of town trips were set up for paper-boys that met a quota of paper starts. The paper in this way took bus-loads of paper-boys from Peoria to such places as Chicago (Riverview Amusement Park), Detroit, Cincinnati, and a one-week train trip to a dude ranch in Colorado. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Journal Star (Peoria)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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