About

Together, The Journal Gazette & Times-Courier and JG-TC.com reach 87% of local adults within a 7-day period. We offer custom packages for any business, from print advertising to the very latest in digital technology. The JG-TC focuses on coverage of the cities of Mattoon and Charleston, which are located 8 miles apart in Coles County in East Central Illinois. We circulate in seven counties and have a daily circulation of over 12,000.

What sets us apart
We are unique for having a downstate Illinois zoned newsroom operation for almost 20 years and for providing hometown coverage for 15 communities in east-central Illinois.

Our history
Charleston's first newspaper, The Courier, began publishing in 1840. A former Courier employee, Betty Boyer, began the Daily Times in 1966. The two papers merged, under her leadership, in 1968 to become the Times-Courier.

The Weekly Independent Gazette was started in Mattoon in 1856, while the Mattoon Journal started in 1865. The two papers merged in 1905.

Both the Journal Gazette and the Times-Courier were purchased by Howard Publications in 1971. In April 2002, Lee Enterprises bought all 16 Howard newspapers. Lee now has a daily circulation of more than 1.1 million in 45 newspapers in 18 states.

The Journal Gazette and Times-Courier combined to publish under one name, the JG-TC, in September 2011.

Capabilities
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    • Native Ads
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    • High-Impact (Takeovers, Billboards, Overlays, Sliders, Skins)
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    • Rich Media (Expandable & Non-Expandable)
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  • Email
  • Social
  • Mobile Display
    • Mobile Rich Media (Including Interstitials & Expandables)
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    • Tablet Traffic
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    • Native & Custom Mobile Executions
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    • Requires SDK Integration
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  • Desktop Display, Email, Social, Mobile Display
  • CPM
  • Web Publisher
  • Headline:
    Serving Mattoon and Charleston, Illinois
  • Self / Managed Service:
    Managed Service
  • Industries
    Automotive, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Government & Politics, Retail, Sports, eCommerce
  • Key Differentiator
    Welcome to the web sites and mobile applications of the Journal Gazette/Times-Courier. We (which includes our parent company, Lee Enterprises, Incorporated) believe in your right to know what information is collected during your visit to our web sites, mobile sites, mobile applications, and other applications (collectively, "Services"), and to any services that display this notice and how that information is used and safeguarded. Information Automatically Gathered About All Visitors We collect aggregate and user-specific information on which pages consumers access or visit. This information is used to generate reports that help us assess the value of an interest in the various web sites and Services we provide. We use the information we collect to improve the content of our Services. We can build a better site and provide better Services if we know which pages our users are visiting, how often they visit and how long they stay on a page. Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address (but not the e-mail address), when you utilize our Services. Your IP address does not contain personally identifiable information, nor does it identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our Services to you upon request, to tailor our sites and Services to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our sites. To help make our Services more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we may utilize a standard feature of browser software called a "cookie." A cookie is a small piece of computer code that is deposited on your hard drive by our site. Browsers typically recognize when a cookie has been sent to your computer and give you the option to refuse or allow it. A cookie does not actually identify you, just the computer or device that you are using to access our Services. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers, content partners and Services that are reached from links on our Services may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we cannot control. We use cookies to help us tailor our Services to your needs so we can deliver a better and more personalized service. It is a cookie, for example, that allows us to deliver to you any personalized information each time you visit our Services. In addition, we can access cookies later in your current session or in a later session on our Services in order to improve your visit to our Services, as in the following examples: Account Registration If your use of a component of the Services requires you to register, a cookie will be used to automatically identify you as a registered user when you are using our Services. These cookies are known as persistent cookies and continue on your computer after the initial session in which they are created. This cookie allows us to maintain information containing the products (like photo reprints) or services (such as placing a classified advertisement or signing up for home delivery) you are purchasing while you are online. To limit unauthorized access, this cookie, also called a session cookie, expires whenever you exit a browser session. Like many other commercial sites, our Services may utilize an electronic file called a web beacon to count users who have visited a page or to recognize users by accessing certain cookies. Our Services and/or our partner web sites use web beacons for auditing purposes and to collect information from the websites and Services of certain partners. Information recorded through these web beacons is used to report anonymous individual and/or aggregate information about our users from our partners. Aggregate information may include demographic and usage information. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with partners. To opt-out of a third parties’ use of web beacons please click here. About Third Party Advertising We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you use our Services. If so, a list of these ad serving companies will be available here. These companies may use information (generally, not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our sites or use of our Services and to other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies may employ cookies and clear GIFs to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and clear GIFs is generally not personally identifiable (unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or e-mail message). We encourage you to read these businesses' privacy policies if you should have any concerns about how they will care for your personal information. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, see the Network Advertising Initiative's consumer web site. Yahoo! is an ad network partner that displays ads on our Services. To improve your ad experience on our sites and Services and elsewhere on the Internet, we may send non-personal information to Yahoo! based on your browser's activities, such as type of pages viewed and categories of interests, so that the advertising you see is relevant to you. Yahoo! also may use information regarding its own users to select which ads to display. Click here to learn more about Yahoo!’s ad practices, including how to opt out of using anonymous information to select which ads to show you.
Site Traffic
  • 342715 Global Rank
  • 69926
    United States
  • 139 K Estimated Visits
Traffic Sources
  • Direct
    56.97%
  • Search
    38.58%
  • Social
    3.31%
  • Referrals
    1.15%
  • Display
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  • Mail
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United States Rank 44,016
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United States Page Views 98.9%
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Mobile App Data
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  • 10 SDKs
  • 3.21 Avg. Rating
  • 9 Total reviews
  • App Url: https://itunes.apple.com/app/jgtc/id440573155
  • App Support: https://jg-tc.com/
  • Genre: News
  • Bundle ID: com.jg-tc.LocalNewsReader
  • App Size: 33.5 M
  • Version: 8.11
  • Release Date: June 15th, 2011
  • Update Date: February 23rd, 2021

Description:

Get the latest local news in Mattoon and Charleston, IL through the Journal Gazette/Times-Courier app. This app provides continually updating local and breaking news, weather, sports and more from around Mattoon and Charleston.
Read and view the latest news, photo galleries, and video on local topics including politics, sports, entertainment, obituaries and more. Get local weather forecasts and current conditions.

Features:
• Share stories with your friends via social media, email or messaging
• Save stories to a favorites list for later review
• Receive notifications of breaking news
• Search the app for specific articles or topics
Easily access the very latest news from Mattoon and Charlestonwith this fast, easy-to-use mobile app built especially for your device.

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Tytytutugrefhj

Jul 07, 2016

No longer stays on.

For the last week the app shuts itself off after maybe 30 seconds.This needs fixed.

Jester61920

Nov 11, 2015

So so

It tends to freeze, lag, or shut down. I'm assuming, it's because of the forced ad pop ups. Other than that it seems to be a great app, when it works.

wizhd

Aug 02, 2015

Greg

Dumped this new "improved" version. Now it won't open at all.

Bailey Peadro

Sep 21, 2014

Used to like this app...

I have used this app for several years, loved being able to read the news on the go. Then, someone changed a bunch of stuff around. Now most of the articles are about sports. Then, I couldn't read the obituaries or any other sections because I wasn't a "premium member" (or something like that). The last straw was the last time I opened the app. I couldn't open anything or scroll because every three seconds, an ad would try to pop up. I got frustrated and deleted the app. Now I just buy the paper or watch the news. Worthless app.

Bridget smo

Feb 19, 2014

Great app, lots of updates

Updated all the time. Works great

Bridget smo

Nov 02, 2012

Great app, lots of updates

Updated all the time. Works great
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UIKit
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