Editing Courier Journal (section)

{{Short description|American daily newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky}}
{{Distinguish|Journal & Courier|Journal-Courier}}
{{For-text|the Oxford newspaper previously known by this name|[[Oxford Journal]]|the newspaper in Alabama|[[Florence, Alabama]]}}
{{More citations needed|date=December 2016}}

{{Use American English|date=August 2019}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name               = The Courier-Journal
| image              = [[File:The Courier-Journal front page.jpg|225px|border]]
| caption            = The July 27, 2005 front page<br />of ''The Courier-Journal''
| type               = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format             = [[Broadsheet]]
| political          = [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] (formerly)
| foundation         = {{start date and age|1868|11|8}}
| ceased publication = 
| owners             = [[Gannett]]
| president          = Eddie Tyner
| editor             = Mary Irby-Jones
| circulation        = {{ublist|29,818&nbsp;daily|40,898&nbsp;Sunday}}
| circulation_date   = Q3 2022
| circulation_ref    = <ref name="Gannet's 10-K annual filing">{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1579684/000157968423000014/gci-20221231.htm |title=Form 10-K |author=Gannett |website=Securities & Exchange Commission |access-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310144149/https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1579684/000157968423000014/gci-20221231.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="NL2023">{{cite news |last1=Benton |first1=Joshua |title=The scale of local news destruction in Gannett's markets is astonishing |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-scale-of-local-news-destruction-in-gannetts-markets-is-astonishing/ |work=Nieman Lab |date=March 9, 2023 |access-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-date=March 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310142906/https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-scale-of-local-news-destruction-in-gannetts-markets-is-astonishing/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| headquarters       = 525 West Broadway<br />[[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]] 40201<br />{{USA}}
| ISSN               = <!-- 1930-2177, entered into Wikidata but the link displayed by this template doesn't work as of October 2020 -->
| website            = {{URL|https://www.courier-journal.com/|courier-journal.com}}
}}

The '''''Courier Journal''''',<!-- See Talk page discussion. There was a renaming on October 30, 2017. --> also known as the '''''Louisville Courier Journal'''''<!-- As of June 2019, the byline of its published articles says "Louisville Courier Journal" (without "The" and without a hyphen) --> (and informally '''''The C-J''''' or '''''The Courier'''''), and called '''''The Courier-Journal''''' between November 8, 1868, and October 29, 2017, is a daily [[newspaper]] published in [[Louisville, Kentucky]] and owned by [[Gannett]], which bills it as "Part of the [[USA Today Network|''USA Today'' Network]]".

It is the newspaper with the highest number of recorded circulation in [[Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Conley |first=Julia |date=June 11, 2020 |title=Kentucky's largest newspaper endorses progressive Charles Booker in Senate race. "Frankly, it's time to shake up the establishment," the Courier-Journal's editorial board writes |url=https://www.salon.com/2020/06/11/kentuckys-largest-newspaper-endorses-progressive-charles-booker-in-senate-race_partner/ |website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |access-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310101527/https://www.salon.com/2020/06/11/kentuckys-largest-newspaper-endorses-progressive-charles-booker-in-senate-race_partner/ |archive-date=March 10, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kessler |first=Martin |date=May 15, 2020 |title='You're Not Going To Marry The NBA, Are You?' The Dating Woes Of A Beat Writer |url=https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2020/05/15/adam-himmelsbach-boston-globe-dating-covid |publisher=[[WBUR-FM]] |access-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531021651/https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2020/05/15/adam-himmelsbach-boston-globe-dating-covid |archive-date=May 31, 2020 }}</ref> According to the ''1999 [[Editor & Publisher]] International Yearbook'', the paper is the 48th-largest daily paper in the United States.{{update inline|date=June 2019|reason=1999 was 10 years ago.}}