The Junk Journal is a small, monthly newsletter-style newspaper that focuses on news in Darboy, Wisconsin and the Fox River Valley near Appleton, specifically the Heart of the Valley.
The Junk Journal was officially founded on February 23, 2003, by Jordan Mader. The first issues were distributed among a small amount of subscribers in the Darboy area. The first issues were four pages long and published weekly. By the end of the summer in 2003, T...
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The Junk Journal is a small, monthly newsletter-style newspaper that focuses on news in Darboy, Wisconsin and the Fox River Valley near Appleton, specifically the Heart of the Valley.
The Junk Journal was officially founded on February 23, 2003, by Jordan Mader. The first issues were distributed among a small amount of subscribers in the Darboy area. The first issues were four pages long and published weekly. By the end of the summer in 2003, The Post-Crescent had picked up on the story and decided to print an article on this small Darboy newspaper. Immediately, the subscription list skyrocketed to over 80 subscribers. Other articles on "TJJ" were published in The Compass and The Times-Villager.
After the first full year of publication, The Junk Journal's staff decided a weekly paper was too much of an undertaking. They decided to change the paper's format to every other week. The content stayed the same, more subscribers joined, and ten businesses placed advertisements in TJJ....
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