Times-Journal

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{{Infobox newspaper

| name = The Times-Journal

| image = File:Times Journal Front 4 Jun 08.jpg

| caption = The Times-Journal
June 4, 2008

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = 1878

| ceased publication =

| owners = Southern Newspapers

| publisher = Tricia Dunne

| editor =

| chiefeditor =

| assoceditor =

| maneditor = Emily Kirby

| staff =

| language = English

| political =

| circulation = 5,000 (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday)

| headquarters = 811 Greenhill Blvd. NW
Fort Payne, Alabama, 35967

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| website = [http://www.times-journal.com/ times-journal.com]

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The Times-Journal newspaper is published twice a week{{cite web |url=https://times-journal.com/site/about.html |title=About the Times-Journal |accessdate=28 November 2024}} in Fort Payne, Alabama and serves the DeKalb County, Alabama region.

The Times-Journal was a Southern Newspapers publication for 60 years before selling to Patrick Graham in 2019,{{cite news |url=https://times-journal.com/article_c50ba2b6-6c51-11e9-89d5-7f47653c2215.html |title=Graham purchases Times-Journal |newspaper=Times-Journal |date=22 August 2019 |orig-date=1 May 2019 |accessdate=29 November 2024}} along with sister papers in Albertville and Scottsboro. The Times-Journal resulted from the merger in 1959 of the Fort Payne Journal, first published in 1878, and the Times-New Era. The latter newspaper was the product of the 1951 merger of The DeKalb Times and The Collinsville New Era.{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/newsmicro/results.cfm |publisher=Alabama Department of Archives and History |title=Newspapers on Microfilm |url-status=dead}}{{dead link|date=November 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/newsmicro/results.cfm |publisher=Alabama Department of Archives and History |title=Hardbound Newspapers |url-status=dead}}

In 2008, of the 25 daily newspapers published in Alabama, the Times-Journal had the nineteenth highest daily circulation.{{cite web |url=http://www.alabamapress.org/uploads/ratesheet08.pdf |title=2008 Rate Update January 1st - June 30th: APA Daily Newspapers |page=2 |publisher=Alabama Press Association |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625002318/http://www.alabamapress.org/uploads/ratesheet08.pdf |archivedate=25 June 2008 |accessdate=29 November 2024}}

The Times-Journal won numerous awards from state newspaper associations, such as the Alabama Press Association and the Associated Press Managing Editors.{{cite news |title=Alabama APME Contest Winners |newspaper=Mobile Press-Register |date=4 May 2008 |page=B2}}