Daily Journal of Commerce

Not to be confused with The Journal of Commerce or Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.

Daily Journal of Commerce
TypeBusiness daily
OwnerBridgeTower Media
EditorJoe Yovino[1]
Founded1872 (1872)[2]
HeadquartersPortland, Oregon, U.S.
Circulation2,333 paid; 68 non-paid and controlled; 228 online paid[3]
Websitedjcoregon.com

The Daily Journal of Commerce (DJC) is an American newspaper published Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Portland, Oregon. It features business, construction, real estate, legal news and public notices. It is a member of American Court & Commercial Newspapers Inc., and the CCN News Service, National Newspaper Association, International Newspaper Promotion Association, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, The Associated General Contractors of America, Oregon-Columbia chapter, and Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. DJC is owned by BridgeTower Media.

The DJC is read by business professionals in industries such as construction, architecture, engineering, commercial real estate, and law. Besides news, each day the DJC displays legal notices and public records from the city of Portland and surrounding governments.

History

The Daily Journal of Commerce was founded by George H. Himes in 1872,[2][4] and was initially known as the Commercial Reporter.[5] It merged with Sunday Welcome (a competing public notice newspaper in Portland) in 1942[6][7] and was purchased by Dolan Media Company of Minneapolis in 1997.[4][7] Dolan Media Company changed its name to The Dolan Company in 2010.[8] The Dolan Company changed its name to BridgeTower Media in 2016.

References

  1. ^ "Contact Us". djcoregon.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "About the Daily Journal of Commerce". djcoregon.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  3. ^ Dolan Media Company Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1 from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website.
  4. ^ a b Row, D.K. (September 14, 2013). "Former Journal of Commerce leader [obituary of Lawrence Morton Smith]". The Oregonian. p. C2. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  5. ^ Turnbull, George S. (1939). "Abigail Scott Duniway" . History of Oregon Newspapers . Binfords & Mort.
  6. ^ "Two Papers Form Merger". The Sunday Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. February 1, 1942. p. 5:8. Retrieved December 16, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b "Dolan Media Buys Its Oregon Public Notice Partner" (Press release). Dolan Media. October 10, 2006. Retrieved July 11, 2009. The Sunday Welcome partnership with DJC ... dates back more than 60 years when two competing Portland public notice newspapers, Sunday Welcome and the Daily Journal of Commerce, agreed to merge operations. The Caplan family shut down its Sunday Welcome title, and the Smith family, which then owned DJC, published the sole surviving paper. The Caplans handled all public notice sales duties, the Smiths published the ads, and the two families split the public notice revenues....The Dolan Company bought the DJC from the Smiths in 1997.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ^ Black, Sam (March 23, 2010). "Dolan Media tweaks corporate name, bumps CEO's pay 35%". Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
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