The Monmouth Journal
The Monmouth Journal is a weekly newspaper based in Red Bank, New Jersey.
The Newspaper covers nine towns in the northern Monmouth County area, including Red Bank, Middletown, Rumson, Fair Haven, Little Silver, Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright, Highlands and Atlantic Highlands.
The newspaper is owned by The Monmouth Journal, LLC.
The managing editor is Gary Chapman and the general manager is Susan Eckenfelder Paviluk.
Chapman was an educator for many years, ending his career in the public school system of Manasquan as a guidance counselor. He began planning The Monmouth Journal in 2003.
Paviluk worked for both daily and weekly newspapers in graphic design and layout before joining The Monmouth Journal in April 2004, just before its launch in May of that year.
The Monmouth Journal has a weekly distribution of 10,000 copies, nearly doubling the circulation of its closest competitor, The Two River Times.
The newspaper's web site can be accessed at www.themonmouthjournal.com
DISTRIBUTION
The Monmouth Journal is a free weekly newspaper that is distributed at 185 locations in the "Two River" area of northern Monmouth County. The Two River area encompasses those towns that border, or are near, the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers.
The area is considered affluent, with Rumson, Monmouth Beach, Fair Haven and Little Silver among the wealthy towns of the region.
The Monmouth Journal does not pretend to cover 20 or 25 towns, like many weekly newspapers in the region do. Instead, it concentrates solely on the nine towns it serves, blanketing those towns with the paper every Friday, and offering its advertisers the best exposure available for a weekly publication in the area.
Recently, The Monmouth Journal has surpassed it rival, The Two River Times, in advertising inches every week, despite the fact that the Two River Times has been publishing for just under 20 years, while The Monmouth Journal is only under 5 years old.