General Info

Capital Newspapers products blanket a 17-county market area that is home to more than one million people in south-central Wisconsin s capital region. Capital Newspapers is the publisher of Madison, Wisc. s two daily newspapers: Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times. The Wisconsin State Journal is a division of Lee Enterprises a publicly-held communications company headquartered in Davenport, Iowa and The Capital Times Company is a private corporation. Lee Enterprises and The Capital Times Company each own 50 percent of Capital Newspapers. The Wisconsin State Journal began in 1839 as an afternoon weekly called The Madison Express. In 1919, the Wisconsin State Journal was purchased by Lee Enterprises.