''The Mining Journal'' is the predominant daily

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, and the

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. Like most market-dominant daily papers, the ''MJ'' is a six-day paper. ''The Mining Journal'' is distributed over a wide area, in part because Marquette is the largest city for a considerable radius in any direction. The ''MJ'' can be found in 14 of the 15

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counties on Sunday; distribution on other days is limited because of budget reductions. The Mining Journal either maintains bureaus in many of the cities of the U.P., or shares news coverage with other Ogden owned papers. In August 2019, the Journal announced that they would be discontinuing the Sunday print edition and become a 6-day a week newspaper.

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