A change in policy necessitated the dropping of "Democrat" from the paper's name in 1903, so the digest appeared again as the Albuquerque Morning Journal.

Under his watch, the paper branched out into broadcasting, leasing the state's oldest radio station, KOB, in 1932 before buying it outright in 1936.

The Pepperday-Lang family has run the ‘'Journal’' for almost a century, making it one of the few family-owned papers in a city of Albuquerque's size.

These include El Defensor Chieftain in Socorro, the Rio Rancho Observer and Valencia County News-Bulletin.

[3] Newspaper sections include news, advertising, comics, Business; Sports, Metro N.M., Health, Education, Food, Go, Fetch,& VENUE Plus (entertainment tabloid on Fridays).