Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, it serves Genesee, Lapeer and Shiawassee Counties.

The paper was sold in rapid succession to Doctor Carman, who sold ownership in December 1882 to George McConnolly and others until the Journal was purchased by the Flint Globe's owner, Howard H. Fitzgerald,[5] and merged as the Weekly Globe and Daily Journal.

[12] On January 27, 2013, its old headquarters at 200 E First St was leased to the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.

The Flint Journal added a Tuesday print edition starting on March 23, 2010, bringing the number of publishing days a week to four.

[18] If Metro Detroit is not counted, Flint is the fifth-largest city in the United States, and second largest in Michigan, without a daily newspaper.