[4] The newspaper won a Blue Ribbon two other times, in 2009 and 2015, and is the only daily paper in its publishing group to win the award.

After six years, the war ended, with the Daily Journal absorbing its afternoon competitor in December 1969.

[6] The newspaper also purchased The Franklin Evening Star's sister publication, the Edinburgh Daily Courier, as part of the deal.

[7] In February 2012, Home News Enterprises, the publisher of the paper, announced that with newspaper printing consolidated at the company's presses in Columbus, the Daily Journal planned to sell its plant on U.S. 31 to KYB Americas, an auto-parts manufacturer, and relocate its newsroom and business offices to the historic Hazelett building in downtown Franklin.

[8] Indiana-based Bemis Group, a commercial construction firm, managed the project to renovate the Hazelett building.