The Journal was founded in 1952 by publisher Lindsay Newspapers Inc. as an afternoon companion to their morning daily Sarasota Herald-Tribune newspaper.
[1][2] Citing steadily declining circulation figures, Lindsay Newspapers shut down the Journal just before a sale of the larger Herald-Tribune to the New York Times Company in late 1982 for an estimated $87 million.
[1][3] The final circulation figure for the Journal was 5,337, about one-third of the paper's reach in the early 1960s.
[4] The paper's last date of publication was July 9, 1982.
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