Winston-Salem Journal

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Winston-Salem Journal
The July 27, 2005 front page of the Winston-Salem Journal
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Media General
Publisher	Jon Witherspoon
Founded	1897
Headquarters	418 N. Marshall St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101 United States
Website: journalnow.com

The Winston-Salem Journal is a daily newspaper primarily serving the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and its county, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It also features coverage of Northwestern North Carolina.

The paper is owned by Media General. The Journal was founded in 1897.

[edit] Overview

The Journal is primarily distributed through Forsyth County and the county seat of Winston-Salem. However, the paper also is distributed in Alleghany County, Ashe County, Davidson County, Davie County, Stokes County, Surry County, Wilkes County, Watauga County, and Yadkin County.

The paper has a daily circulation of about 85,000 and a Sunday circulation of about 95,000.

The newspaper has an online presence called JournalNow. The Journal's television partner is WGHP of High Point, North Carolina.

The paper also produces a weekly entertainment and social tabloid called Relish.

Its editorial-page slant is considered moderate, although its conservative readership often decries its liberal bias and its liberal readers point out that the Journal hasn't endorsed a Democratic Party presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. In 2004, the paper refused to endorse a presidential candidate. [1]

Co-owned for many years with the afternoon newspaper, the Twin City Sentinel, the papers were merged in the 1980s.

WSJS, an AM broadcast radio station in Winston-Salem takes its call letters from "Winston-Salem Journal Sentinel" from the time when the newspapers owned the primary radio and television station outlets in the city.

[edit] Pulitzer Prizes

• 1971—Meritorious public service, staff; "for coverage of environmental problems, as exemplified by a successful campaign to block strip mining operation that would have caused irreparable damage to the hill country of northwest North Carolina."

[edit] External links

• Winston-Salem Journal