The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee and is distributed widely throughout the state of Wisconsin. The Journal Sentinel has a weekday circulation of 250 000 copies and a Sunday circulation of over 400 000.
History
The Journal Sentinel was first printed in April1995, the result of the consolidation of operations between the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel, which had been owned by the same company, Journal Communications, for some time.
The Sentinel began in 1837 as a weekly published by Solomon Juneau, a businessman who became the first mayor of Milwaukee. It was then owned by the Hearst Corporation until the Journal bought it out in 1962. The Sentinel was an afternoon tabloid that ran Monday through Saturday and was the oldest continuously operating business in Wisconsin until it ceased printing in 1995.
The Journal was started in 1882. Its first editor was a man named Lucius Nieman, who wanted to steer the paper away from the bias and yellow journalism of the day. The paper won five Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other awards. The Journal was a daily morning broadsheet like the Journal Sentinel of today.
External links
JS Online, the Journal Sentinel website (http://jsonline.com/)
Three years after the trial, Sonja Alvarado, Panetti's former wife and the daughter of the victims, filed a petition saying that Panetti never should have been tried for the crimes because he was suffering from paranoid delusions at the time of the killings.
More than four years ago, the Journal Sentinel's Meg Kissinger called attention to the case of Scott Panetti, a native of Poynette, Wis. Panetti murdered his wife's parents in a small Texas town, was convicted of the crime in 1995 and has been on death row ever since.
More than four years ago, the Journal Sentinel's Meg Kissinger told this newspaper's readers about Scott Panetti, a Wisconsin native who killed his wife's parents in September 1992, stood trial for his crime in a Texas court and was sentenced to death.
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Journal Sentinel Inc. is a subsidiary of Journal Communications.
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