The Tri-County Journal is owned by Pulitzer

Pulitzer, Inc.

Founded by Joseph Pulitzer , Pulitzer Inc., owned 14 daily newspapers across the United States, and one weekly chain. Its papers included the St...

 Publications, founded in 1878, the same owner as the Saint Louis Post Dispatch. It covers the local news in Pacific

Pacific, Missouri

Pacific is a city in Franklin and St. Louis counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 7,002 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Pacific is located at . The city straddles the Franklin County/St. Louis County line, which lies halfway on the blocks between Elm and Neosho streets. St...

, Eureka

Eureka, Missouri

Eureka is a city located in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, between St. Louis and Pacific, Missouri, along Interstate 44. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 10,189. The city is west of the former site of Times Beach, the site of dioxin contamination discovered in...

, Robertsville

Robertsville, Missouri

Robertsville is an unincorporated community in eastern Franklin County, Missouri, United States. It is located about six miles southwest of Pacific on Missouri Supplemental Route O. It is Home to the Robertsville State Park....

, Villa Ridge

Villa Ridge, Missouri

Villa Ridge is a census-designated place in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2.417 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Villa Ridge is located at ....

, Labadie

Labadie, Missouri

Labadie is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. It is located about three miles north of Gray Summit. The community is named after Sylvester Labaddie, Jr., a hunter who was killed by a bear in nearby Labaddie's Cave...

, Catawissa

Catawissa, Missouri

Catawissa is a small unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, United States, on the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, 39 miles from St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in 1839 and initially had four stores. It is located at the junction of Route N and Route O, southwest of Pacific. ...

, Saint Clair

Saint Clair, Missouri

Saint Clair is a city in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,472 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Saint Clair is located at ....

, and Gray Summit

Gray Summit, Missouri

Gray Summit is a census-designated place in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,640 at the 2000 census. Also called Gray's Summit, it was founded by Daniel Gray of New York who built a hotel here in 1845. This community was the highest point on the Missouri Pacific...

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The Tri-County Journal was formerly delivered free of charge to residents of Jefferson

Jefferson County, Missouri

Jefferson County is a county located in East Central Missouri in the United States. The county was included as the mean center of U.S. population in 1980. It is the sixth most-populous county in Missouri. Census 2010 put the population at 218,733 Its county seat is Hillsboro. The county was...

, Franklin

Franklin County, Missouri

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri on the south side of the Missouri River. Franklin County is part of the St. Louis Metro Area and contains many of the St. Louis exurbs. Census 2010 put the population at 101,492; making it the 10th most populous county in Missouri....

, and Saint Louis counties on Tuesdays. The paper now requires a subscription.

Some recipients of the newspaper believe that the Tri-County Journal tends to have a Saint Louis County bias on local news stories and prefer to get their news from the Washington Missourian

Washington Missourian

The Washington Missourian is the Franklin County paper based in Washington, Missouri. The paper is owned by Missourian Publishing Company, a family-owned company. James L...

instead.

While the paper was free, one of the more popular and controversial sections was the sound off section. This section allowed readers of the paper to call an answering machine and leave comments to be printed in the paper. A name was not required to have these comments printed.

External links

• Tri-County Journal online