The Ithaca Journal
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The Ithaca Journal is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper published in Ithaca, New York. It is locally edited and printed in downtown Ithaca Monday through Saturday and owned by Gannett.
It is frequently known locally as simply "The Journal." Colloquially it is referred to as "The Ithaca Urinal."
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Offices
The Ithaca Journal is located on West State Street in downtown Ithaca. The Journal's offices spread over two buildings; the newspaper's original building and the neighboring Greenstate Building.
The newsroom is located on the second floor of the original building with various administrative offices on the first floor. The first floor of Greenstate building houses the newspaper's public lobby as well as the advertising offices. The two buildings are connected next to the lobby area.
Much of the newspaper's general administrative operations are handled from the Binghamton, New York offices of the Press & Sun Bulletin.
Behind the original building, on Green Street, is the current press facility.
Publications
Daily newspaper
The Ithaca Journal publishes a daily morning newspaper Monday through Saturday. No edition is printed on Sundays. Monday through Friday The Ithaca Journal is three sections. The first section includes local and international news, business news and a rotating selection of features. The second section includes several pages of city and county news, entertainment news and sports. The third section is entirely classified advertising. On Saturdays, there is a fourth section, which is another section of classifieds.
Ticket and Cortland Ticket
On Thursdays a tabloid-sized insert called Ticket is included in The Ithaca Journal. Ticket includes local arts and entertainment news and events calendar. A similar publication, Cortland Ticket, is included in newspapers sold in the Cortland, New York area on Fridays.
Buzz
The Ithaca Journal produces a youth-oriented tabloid-sized publication called Buzz every other week. The publication is distributed at no cost at retail locations and vending machines throughout the area and features stories of interest to a younger audience as well as an events calendar. Buzz is also distributed in the markets of The Ithaca Journal's sister publications, the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin and Elmira Star-Gazette.
History
Founded in 1815 as the Seneca Republican, it was renamed The Ithaca Journal in 1823. According to the its Web site (see links below), the first daily edition of paper was published in 1870 and its offices are housed in the same building it has occupied since 1905.
The Journal was purchased by Frank E. Gannett in 1912, thereby becoming the second local newspaper of what would later become the media conglomerate Gannett Co, Inc. It merged with the Daily News in 1919 and officially adopted the name The Ithaca Journal-News, although it is published under the name The Ithaca Journal.
In May 1996, The Journal switched to a morning printing and distribution schedule after many years as an afternoon daily. Until that point, the newspaper run by Cornell University students, The Cornell Daily Sun had been the only morning daily paper in the city.
In 2006 the newspaper's printing facilities will be relocated to Johnson City, New York, located outside of Binghamton, New York. This new facility, which will also house the printing facilities for the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin and Elmira Star-Gazette, both daily newspapers owned by Gannett. Following this relocation, The Ithaca Journal's existing building will be renovated to include expanded office space.
Pulitzer
The Journal was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 1964 for meritorious public service.
Criticism
Reflecting Ithaca's left-liberal political climate, The Journal has been frequently criticized throughout its history as pro-war and pro-corporate. Critics have pointed out that the newspaper strongly supported the Vietnam War, headlining an editorial in 1967 "U.S. Troops Must Stay in Vietnam," and condemned protests of the first Persian Gulf War as "unrealistic" in 1991. Prior to World War II, The Journal, as with many American newspapers of the era, praised Europe's dictators. "No objective critic can fail to see that, viewed by the practical standard, [Fascism] has been, on the whole, a success," pronounced a 1932 editorial.
Nevertheless, the paper is not immune to criticism from the right; in recent years, particular attention has been paid to left-leaning Metro section editor John Carberry. The Journal has also consistently endorsed Democratic Party candidates for federal offices in recent years.
The modern iteration of the newspaper is viewed by many locals and most students at nearby Cornell University and Ithaca College as something of a "wire service rag."