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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal company history timeline

1873

1873 The newspaper is renamed again, from the Tupelo Standard to the Mississippi Journal.

1886

1886 Miller takes an active leadership role in the effort to win Tupelo a second railroad line, a potent economic prospect.

1898

1898 James Kincannon buys the Tupelo Daily Journal.

1934

She is the sixth editor in the 85 years since George McLean purchased the newspaper in 1934.

1948

1948 George McLean is a founding member of the Community Development Foundation.

1972

1972 The Journal names Norma Fields as its state capitol correspondent in Jackson, making her the first woman to cover the capitol as a full-time reporter.

1979

1979 The Daily Journal donates $1 million to launch a reading program in Lee County schools.

1988

1988 The Daily Journal prints its first Sunday edition.

1995

1995 The Journal launches its first website, djournal.com.

1997

1997 The Journal invests $750,000 in regional community development.

2000

2000 Anna Keirsey McLean dies.

2010

2010 Clay Foster named chief executive officer of Journal Inc., having been named publisher already the year before.

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