Flint's newspapers began with the Flint River Gazette in 1839 (an issue of which can be found at the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor). The periodical collection, Collection 103, contains interesting examples of community/neighborhood newspapers, sports papers, special interests newspapers, and ethnic newspapers serving the African American, Jewish, Arbab, and European Immigrant communities.
The chief runs of 19th-century Flint newspapers include the following titles. All can be found on microfilm, at the Genesee Historical Collections Center (as well as Flint Public Library)
Genesee Whig (1850-1854),
Genesee Whig and Wolverine Citizen (1854-1857),
Wolverine Citizen (1858-1911), (some bound volumes are available at Sloan Museum)
For the entire 20th century, however, the newspaper of record has been the Flint Journal, published since 1896, although the run of microfilmed newspapers starts in 1898 and continues to the present. Digitized, searchable copies of the Journal are available online from 1898 - 1922 and from 1995 - present.
Content of The Flint Journal, including articles, illustrations, advertisements, and other content. Includes images (1898-1995; 2018 to present), and text (1995 to present).
The Flint Journal is also available on microfilm on the 1st floor of the Thompson Library, covering 1898 - 2018. These years of coverage are included in the online version, but if you need full page or article images for the years 1996 - 2017, you can scan them on the microfilm reader. If you only need the text of an article from the years 1996 - 2017, it is available in the online version.
Flint Journal Indexes & Chronologies
For the years 1965 to 1983 an index to the Journal was compiled and published by the Flint Public Library.
The GHCC has an almost complete set of the Index, lacking the volumes for 1965, 1966, and 1972, but has a complete set of subject indexes from 1971 to 1981 and of names from 1971 to 1983, as well as the combined indexes for 1967 to 1970.
For the years 1912 to 1935, the Journal compiled annual chronologies of events for the previous year; these have been republished and indexed and are available in Reference and in the GHCC.
Includes all articles from all editions of the Detroit Free Press.
Combined access to all articles from all editions of the Detroit Free Press, including:
Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer (1831-1832)
Democratic Free Press (1832-1842, 1842-1848)
Semi Weekly Free Press (1837)
Daily Free Press (1842)
Detroit Daily Free Press (1842, 1851-1858)
Detroit Free Press (1837-1841, 1848-1851, 1858-present*)
Detroit Free Press Blogs (2014)
Content from 2000-2007 and the most recent 3 months is available in text-only format. All other content is available in full image page reproductions that include all illustrations, ads, etc.
*There is a gap of missing content from May 1 to August 20, 1985.