The North County Journal ceased publication in 2011. It was owned by Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis, a community newspaper publisher that went from operating 35 papers in 2005 to just two by 2015. The Suburban Journals began in July 1922 when Bernard H. Nordmann launched the 39th Street Neighborhood News to serve local businessmen and residents. Elsewhere in south St. Louis, Frank X. Bick purchased the Cherokee News in 1933 and renamed it the South Side Journal. In the northern area of the city and county, the Journal organization began in 1935, when Arthur M. Donnelly purchased the Wellston Local and later expanded into other parts of North County and in 1957 launched the St. Charles Journal.
In 1984, Ingersoll Publications bought the two chains of suburban papers and created the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis. Ralph Ingersoll, the first managing editor of The New Yorker Magazine, purchased other independents until the group ringed St. Louis. After a failed effort to start a new St. Louis daily newspaper in 1989, and due to other financial troubles, Ingersoll forfeited his weeklies to an investment company, Warburg Pincus, which in 1990 formed the Journal Register Company to oversee the Journals and other publications. Journal Register grew to include other dailies and weeklies, going public in 1997 on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2000, Journal Register sold the Suburban Journals to Pulitzer Inc., owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a number of other daily and weekly newspapers. Pulitzer was purchased by Lee Enterprises in June 2005.
Circulation estimate: 9,559
This newspaper was owned by Lee Enterprises, Inc.
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