April 27, 2020

LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

By Checker Bot

Updated 05-May-2020.

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journalstar.com: News, sports, entertainment and weather updates from the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper in southeast Nebraska.

journalstar.com: News, sports, entertainment and weather updates from the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper in southeast Nebraska.

The Lincoln Journal Star: A history: September 7, 1867 – First edition of the Nebraska Commonwealth. Founded by Charles H. Gere. Printed in Nebraska City, delivered to Lincoln and Omaha

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the Lincoln Journal Star is a daily newspaper that serves Lincoln, Nebraska . it is the most widely read newspaper in Lincoln and the second-largest in the state . the paper also operates a commercial printing unit . a member of the prominent Gere family, Gere was a new york native and civil war veteran . he spearheaded numerous local issues, favoring the idea that all state government functions should be housed in one city the newspaper was published as an evening edition . in 1897, a former reporter purchased the Lincoln Evening News . by 1922, seacrest had changed the name of the Lincoln evening news to the london even Seacrest merged the two publications to create the Lincoln Evening Journal & Nebraska State Journal . Thompson established the Lincoln Daily Star . in 1910, Thompson sold the Daily Star to local grain operator Herbert E. Gooch . the two publications maintained competing news teams and ran separate stories . in 1971, Joe W. Seacrest chose his sons to run the Lincoln Evening Journal . 1995, Lee Enterprises bought the Journal from the Seacrest family, and merged it with the Star . willa Cather wrote for the Nebraska State Journal from 1893-1899 as the fine arts critic .