The Journal Tribune (and its weekend edition, the Journal Tribune Weekender) was a daily newspaper published in Biddeford, Maine, United States, circulated throughout the greater York County, Maine region. Its first issue was on January 5, 1884, published as a four-page broadsheet.^[1][2]

The Journal Tribune Weekend's first issue was on August 8, 1988.^[a] It covered Saturdays and Sundays until it was renamed the York County Weekend for its first edition in 2005.^[b] The weekend paper was later renamed back to the Journal Tribune Weekend in 2009,^[c] and two weeks covered Saturdays only, though returned to Saturday and Sunday coverage.^[d]

Journal Tribune Sunday's first issue was for Sunday, June 16, 2013. The Journal Tribune Weekend continued to be published on Saturdays, and continued to cover Sundays.^[e]

The Sunday edition's last issue was on October 28, 2018, after which it became online-only. The weekend edition's name changed following this, with the first November issue being published as the Journal Tribune Weekender.^[f] This sparked another period of Saturday-only coverage by the Weekender, though issues in December returned to full-weekend coverage.^[g] The name change represented the new, longer weekend edition intended to make up for the lost Sunday edition.

In January 2017, the newspaper announced they would no longer publish a print Monday edition, opting to enhance their online Monday edition instead.^[3]

Reade Brower, owner of MaineToday Media, acquired the Journal Tribune as well as Brunswick's The Times Record on April 1, 2018, from Sample News Group,^[4] which then acquired Brower's co-owned newspapers in Rutland and Barre–Montpelier, Vermont.^[5]

In 2019, the Journal Tribune was closed. The last articles on their website were posted September 26, 2019,^[6] and their last paper was published October 12.^[7] At the time of their closure, they published an edition for Tuesday through Saturday.^[8] Ed Pierce was the executive editor at the time of the paper's demise,^[9] though he already had plans to retire.^[10]

• "Journal Tribune in Biddeford drops Monday print edition". Portland Press Herald. January 9, 2017.
• Greenberg, Zoe (October 12, 2019). "In one Maine town, 'home paper' is gone after 135 years". The Boston Globe.

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