Editor | Heather Jameson |
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Frequency | Weekly |
Publisher | Hemming Group |
Founded | 1893 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Website | www |
ISSN | 0143-4187 |
OCLC | 760925882 |
The Municipal Journal (also known as The MJ) is a weekly print news magazine and online publication covering local government and civic administration in the United Kingdom.[1][2] It was established in 1893, under the title London.[1][3] It is now published by the Hemming Group, with a stated target audience of "council chief executives and their teams of decision-makers in local authorities and allied sectors".[4][5] The editor since 2011 has been Heather Jameson; she replaced Michael Burton.[6]
The academic historian John R. Griffiths has described its role in its first two decades of existence as:[1]
...to defend the Progressive agenda from Conservative (Moderate) attack, and [...] to play the role as the 'Hansard of local government.'
elsewhere, Griffiths notes:[7]
...the significance of British world publications such as the Municipal Journal, appearing after 1890, in the facilitation of British world progressivism
From 1950-1952, it was published as the Municipal Journal and Public Works Engineer.[8]
As well as news and opinion pieces, the journal has also published articles by academic researchers.[9][10]
The journal also sponsors and hosts an annual "MJ Achievement Awards".[11]