The Republican Daily Journal appears to have been the successor via the sale and/or consolidation of earlier Lawrence newspapers.

[8] In October 2010, the World Company, which owns the Lawrence Journal-World, sold some of its news media business to Internet and cable provider Knology for $165 million.

[10] In June 2016, the Simons family announced the sale of the Journal-World after 125 years of ownership, to another long-running family-owned company, Ogden Newspapers of Wheeling, West Virginia.

Also in 2016, the family's WorldWest, LLC, which owned newspapers in Arizona (the Payson Roundup) and Colorado (the Steamboat Pilot & Today, and the Craig Daily Press), announced their sale to other owners.

[11] In June 2018, the Journal-World's web site was migrated from Django to the blogging-centric content management system Wordpress.