The Journal Tribune (and its weekend edition, the Journal Tribune Weekender) was a daily newspaper published in Biddeford, Maine, United States, circulated throughout the greater York County, Maine region. Its first issue was on January 5, 1884, published as a four-page broadsheet.[1][2]
The Journal Tribune Weekend's first issue was on August 8, 1988.[a] It covered Saturdays and Sundays until it was renamed the York County Weekend for its first edition in 2005.[b] The weekend paper was later renamed back to the Journal Tribune Weekend in 2009,[c] and two weeks covered Saturdays only, though returned to Saturday and Sunday coverage.[d]
Journal Tribune Sunday's first issue was for Sunday, June 16, 2013. The Journal Tribune Weekend continued to be published on Saturdays, and continued to cover Sundays.[e]
The Sunday edition's last issue was on October 28, 2018, after which it became online-only. The weekend edition's name changed following this, with the first November issue being published as the Journal Tribune Weekender.[f] This sparked another period of Saturday-only coverage by the Weekender, though issues in December returned to full-weekend coverage.[g] The name change represented the new, longer weekend edition intended to make up for the lost Sunday edition.
In January 2017, the newspaper announced they would no longer publish a print Monday edition, opting to enhance their online Monday edition instead.[3]
In 2019, the Journal Tribune was closed. The last articles on their website were posted September 26, 2019,[6] and their last paper was published October 12.[7] At the time of their closure, they published an edition for Tuesday through Saturday.[8] Ed Pierce was the executive editor at the time of the paper's demise,[9] though he already had plans to retire.[10]
