name = [[Image:Pnjlogo.gif|centre|200px]] |
type = Daily regional newspaper |
founded = [[1889 ]] (''Daily News'') |owner = [[Gannett Company]] |
publisher = [[Kevin Doyle]] |
editor = [[Dick Schneider]] |
headquarters = 101 East [[Romana Street ]] |
website = [http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com www.pensacolanewsjournal.com] |
}}
[[Image:PensacolaNewsJournal-Building.jpg|right|thumb|''News Journal'' headquarters]]
The '''''Pensacola News Journal''''' is the premier daily (published mornings) newspaper serving the Pensacola area. It is Northwest Florida's most widely-read dailyand serves as the ''de facto'' newspaper of record.
The ''News Journal'' is owned by [[Gannett Co.Company]], a national media holding company that owns newspapers such as ''USA TODAY'' and the ''Arizona Republic'', among others. Gannett owns a number of other papers in the area, including the ''[[Pelican]]'', ''[[Gosport]]'' and ''[[Pensacola Home & Garden]]'', which are also produced at the ''News Journal'''s headquarters at 101 [[Romana Street]]. In recent years, as newspaper circulation has declined nationwide, the ''News Journal'' has pursued other avenues of revenue, including an increased focus on their website, [[pnj.com]].
==History==
The heritage :''Main articles: [[Pensacola Daily News]] & [[Pensacola Journal]]''Although newspapers in the Pensacola area date back to [[1821]] with the ''[[Floridian (newspaper)|Floridian]]'', the pedigree of the ''News Journal'' can be traced back to [[1889]], when a group of Pensacola businessmen founded [[John O'Connor (publisher)|John O'Connor]]'s weekly paper, the ''Pensacola Daily News[[Pensacolian]]'', went out of business. 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 March ]], [[1889]]. The paper was produced by ten employees at the old [[Armory Hall]], with an initial circulation of 2O'Connor as managing editor and Witt as business manager. They pledged the Daily News "will be Democratic,500 copiesconservative but yet sufficiently aggressive to give weight to its remarks. Then" [[William Marion Loftin]], who moved to Pensacola from Alabama in March 1897[[1887]]<ref>Miller, Vivien Mary L. ''Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency: Florida's Pardon Board and Penal System in the Progressive Era.'' Page 68.</ref> and worked for a Pensacolian named time as city editor at the ''Daily News'',<ref>[[Mhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~flescamb/direcil. Loftin]htm 1894 City Directory] </ref> founded a newsweekly, the ''[[Pensacola Journal]]''with two other employees in [[1897]]. The Originally a weekly paper, the ''Journal'' converted to a daily format in [[1898]]. The two dailies competed fiercely, each driving the other to edge of bankruptcy in the struggle to be recognized as Pensacola's top daily newspaper. By [[1922]], the ''Journal'' was in dire financial trouble, and was eventually purchased by New York businessman [[John Holliday Perry]], who at about the same time also acquired papers in Jacksonville and Panama City. In [[1924]], Perry bought the ''Daily News'' and merged the two newspapers' operations. For the next six decades, the ''Pensacola Journal'' continued to appear mornings and the ''Pensacola News'' evenings, with a year latercombined Sunday edition as the ''Pensacola News Journal''.
The two dailies competed fiercely, each driving Perry developed the other to edge of bankruptcy in the struggle to be recognised as Pensacola's top daily 'News Journal'' into an extremely popular and successful newspaper. By 1922the early 1950s, the ''News Journal'' was had developed into one of the most modern and efficient newspaper operations in dire financial troublethe Southeast. Under the leadership of Perry's son, and was eventually purchased by New York businessman [[John Holliday Perry, Jr.]], who at about the same time also acquired papers succeeded his father in Jacksonville and Panama City. Two years later[[1955]], Perry bought the ''Daily News'' and merged the two newspapers' operations. For the next six decades, the ''Pensacola Journal'' continued to appear mornings and the ''Pensacola News'' eveningsexpand. [[Perry Publications, Inc.]], with a combined Sunday edition as the ''Pensacola News Journal''eventually owned 28 newspapers throughout Florida.
On [[July 1]], [[1969]], Perry Publications chairman and president John H. Perry developed the ''News Journal'' into an extremely popular and successful newspaper, Jr. By announced that the early 1950s, the ''News Journal'' company had developed into one of sold the most modern and efficient newspaper operations in the Southeast. Under the leadership of Perry's son, two papers to [[John Holliday Perry, Jr.Gannett Company]], who succeeded his father then based in 1955Rochester, the ''News Journal'' continued to expandN.Y. [[Perry Publications, Incfor $15.]], eventually owned 28 newspapers throughout Florida5 million.
On July 1, 1969, Perry Publications chairman and president John HLike many U.S. Perryevening newspapers in the post-war period, Jr. announced that the company had sold ''News'' sustained declining circulation and was folded into the two papers to Gannett Co., Inc., then based ''Journal'' in Rochester, N.Y., for $15.5 million[[1985]].
Like many U.S. evening newspapers in the post===Anderson-war period, the ''News'' sustained declining circulation and was folded into the ''Journal'' in 1985.Columbia lawsuit==={{sectstub}}
==Production==
The press room of the ''News Journal'' is three stories tall and occupies more than half a city block. It can print 96 pages with color at speeds up to 55,000 papers per hour. Since May [[1997]], the ''News Journal'' has operated a Goss Headliner offset press, which is capable of printing 112 pages at a speed of 70,000 per hour. Production consumes more than 15,250 pounds of newsprint, 45,000 gallons of black ink and 40,000 gallons of color ink annually.
Some of Gannett's specialty publications, like ''[[Bella]]'', are printed at subsidiary [[Gannett Printing and Publishing]], located at the [[Ellison Industrial Park]].
==Notable stories & investigations==
===Brownsville Revival===
The paper gained nationwide notoriety in 1997 and 1998 with a series of investigative reports about the [[Brownsville Revival]] at the [[Brownsville Assembly of God]]. The paper had initially written glowing reports about the revival, but after former members told the paper that all was not as it appeared, the ''News Journal'' began a four-month investigation that revealed the revival had been "well planned and orchestrated" from the very start. It also called many of the claims made by the church's leaders into question, and delved heavily into the church's finances. The series won many awards, but was roundly criticized by evangelicals throughout the country as a "hit piece" against the church and the meetings. The church answered the paper's allegations by publishing a two-page spread entitled, "The Facts of The Brownsville Revival."
As of 2004, the ''News Journal'' had a daily circulation of 63,351 and a Sunday circulation of 80,954==External links==*[http://www.pnj.com/ Official site]
==External linksReferences==*[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/ Official site]{{reflist}}
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