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<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"> Image:The News Journal front page.jpg
The July 27, 2005 front page
of The News Journal</td></tr> <tr><th>Publisher</th><td>W. Curtis Riddle</td></tr><tr><th>Editor</th><td>David Ledford</td></tr> <tr><th>Circulation</th><td>Morning: 116,779
Sunday: 139,625</td></tr>

The News Journal
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Gannett Company
Founded	1785 (as Delaware Gazette)
Headquarters	950 West Basin Road New Castle, DE 19720 United States
Website: delawareonline.com

The Delaware News-Journal (referred to more often as simply The News Journal) is a Wilmington, Delaware newspaper owned by Gannett. Like most American newspapers, it also makes an associated online version available.

The origins of the News Journal begin in 1785 when the Delaware Gazette was founded. The paper evolved through a series of name changes, owners and mergers and acquisitions. In the early 20th century, a family feud among the duPonts resulted in part of the family owning The Morning News and the other, the Evening Journal. The fued ended in 1919 when the News Journal Company was formed. Gannett purchased the News Journal Company, consisting of The Morning News and The Evening Journal, from the duPonts in 1978. The two newspapers were merged to become The News Journal in 1989.

[edit] External links

• Delaware Online
• Gannett subsidiary profile of The News Journal