Martinsburg / West Virginia / United States
The Journal, serves Martinsburg, W.Va. with daily news, weather, sports and other local items. The newspaper has won 37 awards, 17 of these in the first-place category. Some of the first-place awards included best column, best editorial page, best news photograph, best photo essay, best written news story, best feature story, best sports news story, best sports feature, best investigative story, best front page, best business section, best special section (Salute to Officers) and best enterprise story. The Journal is part of Ogden Newspapers, a diversified media corporation that publishes 40 daily newspapers, several magazines, weekly newspapers and shoppers located in 12 states from Florida to upstate New York and as far west as Maui, Hawaii. Ogden Newspapers is privately owned by the Nutting family, which also owns the Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania and the majority interest in the Pittsburgh Pirates major league baseball team. The company has been headquartered in Wheeling, W.Va., since 1890.
