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Aberdeen Journals Ltd. is a newspaper publisher based in Aberdeen, Scotland.
The company publishes The Press and Journal, the Evening Express, the Aberdeen Citizen and Scot-Ads newspapers. It was owned by Northcliffe Newspapers Group, which is owned by Daily Mail & General Trust from 1995 until 2006, when Aberdeen Journals was sold to Dundee based D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.
The Press and Journal was first published as a weekly title on 29 December 1747 and was known as The Aberdeen's Journal.
It was published on a weekly basis for 128 years until August 1876, when it became a daily newspaper. In November 1922, the paper was renamed The Aberdeen Press & Journal when its parent firm joined forces with the Free Press. The Press & Journal, often called the P&J, is a daily morning regional newspaper. It is printed 6 days a week as a compact.[1] The Press & Journal produces 6 geographic editions.
Daily readership – 138,000[2] Weekly readership – 287,000[2] Circulation – 67,781 (July-Dec 2011, 99,1% paid)[3]
The current editor of The Press and Journal is Frank O’Donnell.
The Evening Express is a daily local evening newspaper which was first published in November 1879.
The current editor of the Evening Express is Craig Walker.
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