headquarters madison wisconsin united states services publishing revenue 121.5 million 0.4 % fy 05 to 06 1 operating income 25.1 million 14.8 % fy 05 to 06 1 net income 15.7 million 13.1 % fy 05 to 06 1 owner lee enterprises and the capital times company number of employees 940 website www.capitalnewspapers.com capital newspapers is a partnership between lee enterprises and the capital times company that operates 27 publications and several web sites in wisconsin . 2 3 the corporate name of the company is madison newspapers inc. 2 capital newspapers has nearly 600 employees . contents 1 history 1.1 central wisconsin acquisitions 1.2 name change 1.3 sales to blueline 1.4 changes to the capital times 1.5 printing press 2 publications 3 references history edit the wisconsin state journal was first published on december 2 1839 as the madison express an afternoon weekly in madison . it changed its name in 1852 to the wisconsin daily journal in 1852 and to its current name in 1860 . in 1919 the newspaper was sold to lee newspaper syndicate now lee enterprises by publisher richard lloyd jones . 2 the capital times was founded in 1917 by the former managing editor of the wisconsin state journal william t. evjue . he quit the state journal in the summer of 1917 after the newspaper abandoned support for robert la follette and his opposition to world war i. by december that year he had raised enough funds to begin his own newspaper an afternoon daily first published on december 13 1917 . 2 lee enterprises and evjue s the capital times company began discussing a partnership that would operate both newspapers in 1947 . the new partnership began on november 15 1948 as madison newspapers inc. on february 1 1949 the wisconsin state journal moved from afternoons to mornings and was the sole newspaper published on sunday in the partnership . 4 central wisconsin acquisitions edit madison newspapers and lee enterprises acquired independent media group inc. s newspapers in nebraska and wisconsin on july 1 2000 . of the purchased newspapers lee enterprises purchased 18 in both states and madison newspapers acquired 11 in wisconsin . the newspapers purchased the portage daily register the baraboo news republic the shawano leader reedsburg times press the juneau county star times the wisconsin dells events the sauk prairie eagle the shopper stopper and the wisconsin reminder . central wisconsin newspapers inc. a subsidiary of madison newspapers was created to manage the newspapers . 5 the daily citizen of beaver dam two weekly newspapers and five other publications were acquired by central wisconsin newspapers inc. a subsidiary of madison newspapers from conley publishing group on april 1 2002 . 6 7 name change edit one year after completing the purchase of the daily citizen madison newspapers changed its name to capital newspapers and integrated its two subsidiaries central wisconsin newspapers and citizen newspapers in name only into the renamed company . the name change was strategic in order to identify itself as a regional newspaper company . according to the press release the change does not signal a significant reorganization and no job losses will occur because of this change . the newsrooms will remain separate and independent ... 8 sales to blueline edit on october 3 2006 capital newspapers completed the sale of the shawano leader and its commercial printing operations near shawano to blueline media holdings llc of neenah . the leader had a circulation of 6 500 daily and 7 200 on sundays . 9 10 changes to the capital times edit the company s most recent change took place on april 26 2008 when the capital times published its last daily print edition and started publishing primarily online . the capital times now consists of three interrelated products its website captimes.com ; a tabloid style print edition the cap times distributed on wednesdays ; and 77 square a weekly arts entertainment and culture publication distributed on thursdays . the capital times co. of madison acquired wispolitics.com the online subscription political news service in february 2011 . wispolitics is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary with no integration of staff or connection to the editorial philosophy of the capital times . printing press edit the capital newspapers printing press also inks numerous publications in the dane county region that are not owned by the corporation . press room clients include various university of wisconsin student led newspapers such as the badger herald which distributes 11 500 papers on mondays and thursdays and the daily cardinal which distributes 10 000 newspapers monday through thursday . 11 publications edit agri view apartment showcase baraboo news republic website the badger herald capital region business journal city & country homes columbus journal daily citizen website juneau county star times website marketplace marketplace rentals monday marketeer monday mini neighbors nursingmatters portage daily register reedsburg times press website shopper stopper shopper s view shopping reminder the capital times website the sauk prairie eagle website tri county weekend citizen wheels for you wisconsin dells events website wisconsin reminder wisconsin state journal website references edit a b c 2006 annual report pdf . lee enterprises . retrieved 2007 03 29 . a b c d madison wi . lee enterprises . retrieved 2007 03 28 . dead link capital newspapers products . retrieved 2007 03 28 . history . capital newspapers . retrieved 2007 03 28 . lee completes acquisition of nebraska and wisconsin papers press release . lee enterprises . 2000 07 01 . retrieved 2007 03 28 . lee family expands again as mni adds daily citizen in beaver dam press release . lee enterprises . 2002 03 14 . retrieved 2007 03 28 . lee completes acquisition of 17 daily newspapers press release . lee enterprises . 2002 04 01 . retrieved 2007 03 28 . new name in wisconsin capital newspapers press release . lee enterprises . 2003 02 28 . retrieved 2007 03 28 . blueline media holdings will buy 2 newspapers in northern wisconsin press release . lee enterprises . 2006 09 26 . retrieved 2007 03 30 . lee completes sales in pacific nw n. wisconsin press release . lee enterprises . 2006 10 03 . retrieved 2007 03 30 . contact us . the daily cardinal . archived from the original on 2007 02 21 . retrieved 2007 03 30 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title capital newspapers & oldid 736804981 categories companies based in madison wisconsinnewspaper companies of the united statespublishing companies established in 1948hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 august 2016 at 23 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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