The Bladen Journal is a bi-weekly newspaper, published in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, United States.
[1] In 1898 a daily news bulletin titled The Bladen Express began being published in Clarkton, North Carolina.
[2] In 1929 Jessie Lee Sugg McCulloch became editor of The Bladen Journal, thus becoming one of the first women in North Carolina to edit a newspaper.
[3] The paper has won some awards from the North Carolina Press Association, including first place in sports coverage (W. Curt Vincent, reporting) and religion & faith reporting (Chrysta Carroll) in 2016 in the "Community newspapers under 3,500 circulation" category.
[6] The Journal has had multiple owners including Community Newspaper Holdings,[7] Heartland Publications,[8] and Civitas Media.