Aberdeen Journals

Aberdeen Journals Ltd
Company typePrivate
IndustryPublishing and printing of newspapers
FoundedSeptember 1928
HeadquartersAberdeen, Scotland, UK
Products

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.

  1. ^ "The Press and Journal will go fully compact size early next year". The Drum. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b Base: 634,000 adults in the Press and Journal survey area. Source: Ipsos Media CT 2010
  3. ^ "ABC figures: The Press and Journal" (PDF). HoldTheFrontPage. UK. 1 March 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2012.