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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Seaton Publishing |
| Founded | 1893 |
| Headquarters | 734 S. Seventh St. Grand Junction, CO 81501 United States |
| ISSN | 1545-8962 |
| Website | gjsentinel |
The Daily Sentinel is the largest daily newspaper in western Colorado, with distribution in six counties.
I.N. Bunting of Pennsylvania and Howard T. Lee founded the newspaper on Nov. 20, 1893. [1] In 1911, future U.S. Senator Walter Walker bought the newspaper. When he died in 1956, his son, Preston Walker, inherited the Sentinel, managing it until he died in 1970. He left it to newspaper employee Ken Johnson, who sold it the company to Cox Newspapers in 1979. [2]
The new publisher, James C. Kennedy of the Cox family, left to become chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises in 1985. The corporation named George Orbanek publisher, who retired in 2007. He was succeeded by Alex Taylor.
Amidst a downturn in the newspaper industry and the Great Recession, Cox put most of its newspaper holdings up for sale. In 2009, it sold the Sentinel to Kansas-based Seaton Publishing Co., a long-standing family newspaper company that publishes the Manhattan Mercury . Jay Seaton was named publisher of The Daily Sentinel and president of the new Grand Junction Media Co.
In September 2024, the newspaper announced it will reduce its number of print days to two: Wednesdays and Saturdays. [3]
Through the years The Daily Sentinel has included a number of slogans or statements on its front page or editorial page. A few that were published:
In 1909, the Sentinel's slogans included:
The same year, Daily Sentinel invoices included these statements under the paper's name:
The Daily Sentinel publishes a wide-variety of special section glossy magazines including the most popular, Portrait, Vacationland, and Ride magazine, among many others.
In recent years, The Daily Sentinel has authored and published several books pertaining to Western Colorado.
Sandstone to Summit: Colorado and Utah Landscapes through the Lens of Christopher Tomlinson features more than a hundred images. Tomlinson's friend and trail partner, Dave Haynes, tells the stories behind the photos, with insight into flora, fauna and natural phenomena. Once someone leaves the pavement for the trail they may see a three-toed theropod track left in the Jurassic Era to a surprise showing of the Northern Lights.
Drink It In: Wine Guide of Western Colorado, a book published by the Sentinel and written by Sentinel wine columnist Dave Buchanan, was a 2013 Colorado Book Award Finalist for nonfiction. Doug Frost, one of only four people in the world to have achieved both Master Sommelier and Master of Wine, wrote the foreword. The book was designed by graphics editor Robert Garcia and edited by Laurena Mayne Davis. The book profiles all wineries in Western Colorado and includes maps of the four distinct wine regions and a detailed map of the Palisade Fruit and Wine Byway.
Monumental Majesty: 100 Years of Colorado National Monument, a book to commemorate the nearby park's 100th anniversary, won the 2011 Colorado Book Award for anthology. This coffee table book's foreword was written by documentarian Ken Burns, was designed by Graphics Editor Robert Garcia and edited by Laurena Mayne Davis.
