Editing Pensacola Daily News

The '''''Pensacola Daily News''''' was an evening newspaper founded in [[1889]] that eventually merged with the ''[[Pensacola Journal]]'' to form the ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]''.

==History==
When [[John O'Connor (publisher)|John O'Connor]]'s weekly paper, the ''[[Pensacolian]]'', went out of business in [[1889]], he and [[John C. Witt]] approached a group of investors about starting a daily paper, selling fifty shares at $100 apiece. The resulting venture, the ''Pensacola Daily News'', quickly found 2,500 subscribers and printed its first issue on [[March 5]], [[1889]]. The paper was produced by ten employees at the old [[Armory Hall]], with O'Connor as managing editor and Witt as business manager. They pledged the Daily News "will be Democratic, conservative but yet sufficiently aggressive to give weight to its remarks."

The ''Daily News'' first began publishing photographs with its articles in [[1905]].

In [[1924]], [[John Holliday Perry]], who had bought the competing ''[[Pensacola Journal]]'' two years earlier, purchased the ''Daily News'' and merged the two papers' operations. The ''Journal'' remained a morning paper and the ''News'' and evening paper, with a combined Sunday edition called the ''News-Journal''.

The last issue of the ''Pensacola News'' was published on [[May 31]], [[1985]], after which the editions were merged as the ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]''.

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