Editorials

by Melanie Jongsma, Managing Editor LANSING, Ill. (April 1, 2020) – I wondered if we would be able to produce a print edition of The...

by Melanie Jongsma, Managing Editor LANSING, Ill. (January 31, 2020) - As I mentioned last week, I set some goals this January for The Lansing...

by Melanie Jongsma, Managing Editor LANSING, Ill. (January 24, 2020) - This January I set some goals for The Lansing Journal. The over-arching goal is...

by Melanie Jongsma, Managing EditorTranscript I just want to let you know that when you give money to The Lansing Journal, you are doing more...

by Melanie Jongsma, Managing Editor LANSING, Ill. (January 1, 2020) - If you rely solely on the print version of The Lansing Journal for local...

by Melanie Jongsma, Managing Editor LANSING, Ill. (December 18, 2019) - “We help news organizations build financial sustainability—because the public deserves access to quality journalism.”...

Autumn Fest presents expanded advertising opportunities by Melanie Jongsma, Managing Editor LANSING, Ill. (September 16, 2019) - Thousands of people attend Autumn Fest in Lansing each...

Three zones added north of expressway LANSING, Ill. (July 14, 2019) - Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Or a dozen zip codes.First,...

2018 in Lansing, Illinois LANSING, Ill. (January 2019) – The Lansing Journal published 1,074 articles in 2018, averaging 89.5 stories each month. Our least prolific...

by Melanie Jongsma, Managing Editor LANSING, Ill. (November 26, 2018) - The Lansing Journal is not a nonprofit organization (though we are looking into the...

Editorial by Melanie Jongsma, Managing Editor LANSING, Ill. (September 2018) - When The Lansing Journal launched last September, we made bold claims about "Serving Lansing's diverse...

At a small, community newspaper, it's more difficult to keep the distinction between advertising and articles clear because many of us are doing more than one job....

People make it possible by Melanie Jongsma LANSING, Ill. (July 9, 2018) - Our friends at the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle recently posted a story about the Canadian...

by Melanie Jongsma LANSING, Ill. (June 25, 2018) - It takes a community to produce a community newspaper. Advertising dollars are our main source of...

A request to our readers LANSING, Ill. (May 12, 2018) - The Lansing Journal is a newspaper that is hyper-local in its coverage: We are...