The Journal-Courier is an American daily newspaper published in Jacksonville, Illinois. It is owned by Civitas Media, a subsidiary of Versa Capital Management.
With a history dating back to 1830, the Journal-Courier is the "oldest continuously published newspaper in Illinois". The Jacksonville Courier merged with the The Jacksonville Daily Journal to form the Jacksonville Journal-Courier on July 11, 1983.
In addition to Jacksonville and South Jacksonville, the Journal-Courier circulates in Cass, Greene, Macoupin, Morgan, Brown, Pike and Scott counties, in western Central Illinois.
The Journal-Courier is owned by Civitas Media, which also owns the Illinois newspaper The Telegraph, in nearby Alton, Illinois. These newspapers, along with The Lima News in Ohio and The Sedalia Democrat in Sedalia, Missouri, constituted the Central Division of Freedom Communications before being sold to Ohio Community Media in May 2012. Freedom acquired the paper from Thomson in 1995.
The Lafayette Journal & Courier is a daily newspaper owned by the Gannett Company, Inc., serving Lafayette, Indiana, and the surrounding communities. It was established in 1920 through the merger of two local papers, the Journal and Free Press (established in 1829 under the name John B. Semans' Free Press) and the Courier (established in 1845). In recent years, the paper has experienced several series of employee layoffs and high rates of turnover of reporters and editors.
With its change of format on July 31, 2006, the Journal & Courier became the first daily newspaper in North America to use the Berliner layout. The change lowered costs by 15%.
As of September 2008, average daily circulation is 33,223. Saturday circulation is 33,546. Sunday circulation is 39,343. By September 2010 this had fallen to an average daily (MON-SAT) circulation of 27,837 and a Sunday circulation of 36,177, which is partly a result of high staff attrition.