News Journal
Today's News Journal has a long and complex history that includes multiple title changes and mergers as well as daily, weekly, morning, and evening editions. For more detailed information, please consult: Union List of Newspapers in Delaware (Delaware Newspaper Project) which provides detailed holdings of newspapers and their relationships in libraries in Delaware.
1814 Delaware Gazette
1814-1820 Delaware Gazette and Peninsula Advertiser
1820-1828 Delaware Gazette
Merged with the Delaware Patriot and American Watchman
1828-1837 Delaware Gazette and American Watchman
Absorbed the Delaware Weekly Advertiser and Farmer’s Journal
1837-1883 Delaware Gazette (operated as a weekly)
But also produced the Wilmington Daily Gazette (1872-1874) and the Daily Gazette (1874-1883)
1873 Merged with the Delaware State Journal
1875-1879 Morning Herald
1878-1928 Every Evening, Wilmington Daily Commercial (daily)
1880 Daily Morning News
1880-1913 Morning News
1883-1902 Delaware Gazette and State Journal (weekly)
1913-1966 Wilmington Morning News
1928-1932 Every Evening
Merged with the Evening Journal (1888-1932)
1933-1934 Evening Journal and Every Evening
1934-1960 Journal-Every Evening
1960-1989 Evening Journal
Merged with the Wilmington Morning News
1989-present News Journal
- News Journal (website)Past week's issues are available.
- News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) (Covers 1989 to present)Text only, no advertisements or graphics. This newspaper database is part of a collection called Global Newsstream (ProQuest).
Other libraries may have Global Newsstream but may not highlight the name News Journal. You would need to check the Publications list to make sure it is included. - Chronicling AmericaEvery Evening (1888-1910)
- Newspapers.com
Prior issues dating from 1871 are available to individual subscribers for a fee. Libraries may not subscribe to this version of the News Journal at this time.
Microfilm S 7 (morning editions)
Morning Herald: v. 1 (1875) - v. 3 (1877), v. 5 (1877) - v. 7 (1878), v. 10 (1878) - v. 12 (1878), v. 14 (1879)
Daily Morning News: v. 1 (1880) - v. 2 (1880)
Morning News: v. 2 (1880) - v. 64 (1913)
Wilmington Morning News: v. 64 (1913) - v. 169 (1966)
Morning News: 1966 - 1989
News Journal: 1989 - present
Microfilm S 39 (evening editions)
Wilmington Evening Journal: no. 1 (1888) - 45th year, no. 168 (1932)
Evening Journal and Every Evening: 1933 - 1934
Wilmington Journal-Every Evening: 1934 - 1960
Evening Journal: 1960 - 1988
Note
Both papers had Saturday editions until September 1, 1975, when the Morning News and the Evening Journal changed to Monday-Friday only. Subsequently the Saturday and Sunday editions were named News Journal and are at Microfilm S 7.
From January 3, 1989 to April 14, 1989, both papers were called News Journal, but there was still a separate evening edition published, located at Microfilm S 39. Subsequently there was one daily morning newspaper, the Wilmington News Journal.