Journal-Express

{{Short description|American newspaper in Iowa (1855–2020)}}

{{See also|List of newspapers in Iowa}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}

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| type = Weekly newspaper

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| foundation = {{Start date and age|1855|paren=yes}}

| ceased publication = {{End date and age|2020|paren=yes}}

| owners = CNHI

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| language = American English

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| circulation = 2,034

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| circulation_date = 2018

| headquarters = Knoxville, Iowa

| oclc = 17927743

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The Journal-Express was a weekly newspaper in Knoxville, Iowa. Its publication was discontinued in May 2020, when it was merged with The Oskaloosa Herald, making it one of 16 publications shut down by owner CNHI due to business losses associated with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.{{cite news |title=More than 100 local newsrooms closed during the coronavirus pandemic |first=Kristen |last=Hare |date=2021-12-02 |work=Poynter |url=https://www.poynter.org/locally/2021/the-coronavirus-has-closed-more-than-100-local-newsrooms-across-america-and-counting/ |access-date=2023-08-02 |quote=Sixteen on this list are from CNHI. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202211232/https://www.poynter.org/locally/2021/the-coronavirus-has-closed-more-than-100-local-newsrooms-across-america-and-counting/ |archive-date=2021-12-02 |url-status=live}}

It was published on Friday, and had a circulation of 2,034 two years before it was discontinued.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/15/5996/18813 |title=Knoxville Journal-Express newspaper |website=Mondo Times |access-date=4 July 2018}}

The original Knoxville Journal was founded in 1855 by William Milo Stone, later a Civil War hero and Iowa governor.{{Cite web|url=https://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=364|title=Stone, William Milo|website=The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa}} In those years, the paper expressed the growing sentiments of a newly minted Republican party. The name Express was added after mergers built out of the old Marion County Democrat paper, founded in 1865, which itself had evolved into the Marion County Express in 1879.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21569131/knoxville_express_established_in_1865/ |title=Knoxville Express Established in 1865 |date=1 October 1930 |work=Knoxville Journal}}