''Stevens Point Journal'' is a digital and print newspaper published in

Stevens Point, Wisconsin Stevens Point is a city in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. Its population was 25,666 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It forms the core of the Stevens Point micropolitan statistical area, which had a p ...

. It is owned by

Gannett Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...

and part of the

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History

The ''Stevens Point Journal'' was founded in 1853 as the ''Wisconsin Lumberman''. It was renamed the ''Stevens Point Journal'' in 1872. In 1997, the newspaper was sold to the

Thomson Corporation Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reut ...

, at the time a major national publisher of newspaper which owned six other newspapers in

Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...

. It was then included in the sale of Thomson's newspaper assets to Gannett in 2000. In 2022, Gannett eliminated the ''Journal'''s Saturday print edition.

References

External links

stevenspointjournal.com
{{Gannett Stevens Point, Wisconsin Gannett publications Newspapers published in Wisconsin