Peoria Journal Star

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Peoria Journal Star
The July 27, 2005 front page of the Peoria Journal Star
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	GateHouse Media
Publisher	Ken Mauser
Founded
Headquarters	1 News Plaza Peoria, IL 61643 United States

Website: PJStar.com

The Peoria Journal Star is the major daily newspaper for Peoria, Illinois and its surrounding area. First owned locally, then employee-owned, it became a Copley-owned entity in 1996. In 2007, the paper was sold to Fairport, New York-based GateHouse Media.^[1]

First established as the Peoria Daily Transcript in 1855, it has a daily circulation of approximately 65,000 copies and a Sunday circulation of 90,350 copies. When Copley purchased the paper in 1996, the daily circulation was 75,000+. According to a Knight Foundation report in 2005, the Journal Star circulation is now 65,126. The Journal Star is the highest circulation Downstate Illinois newspaper and the fourth highest circulation Illinois newspaper. As of September 2006, the Journal Star was the 136th largest newspaper in the United States.^[2]

The Peoria Journal Star has owned and operated various Television and Radio outlets in Peoria, Bloomington, Lafayette Indiana and Indianapolis Indiana.

The Peoria Journal Star was featued on Lateshow with David Letterman's Small Town News segment on June 11, 2007. A want ad stated AARVARK WANTED, ANT PROBLEM.