Daily newspaper in West Palm Beach, Florida
The Palm Beach Post
is an American
daily newspaper
serving
Palm Beach County
in
South Florida
, and parts of the
Treasure Coast
.
On March 18, 2018, in a deal worth US$42.35 million,
The Palm Beach Post
and
The Palm Beach Daily News
were purchased by New York?based New Media Investment Group Inc., which has ever since owned and operated
The Palm Beach Post
and all circulations and associated digital media sources.
History
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The Palm Beach Post
began as
The Palm Beach County
, a weekly newspaper established in 1910. On January 5, 1916, the weekly became a daily, morning publication known as
The Palm Beach Post
.
In 1934, the Palm Beach businessman
Edward R. Bradley
bought
The Palm Beach Post
and
The Palm Beach Times
, which published daily in the afternoon. In 1947, both were purchased by the longtime resident John Holliday Perry Sr., who owned a Florida newspaper chain of six dailies and 15 weeklies. In 1948, Perry purchased both the
Palm Beach Daily News
, the main newspaper for the island of Palm Beach, and the society magazine
Palm Beach Life
.
In June 1969,
Cox Enterprises
, based in Atlanta, purchased Perry's Palm Beach and West Palm Beach publications and formed Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. Cox was founded by
James M. Cox
, a former Ohio governor and the 1920 Democratic presidential candidate who built a media company that today includes daily newspapers; weekly newspapers, radio and television stations; U.S. cable TV systems, local Internet media sites; and Mannheim auto auction locations.
In 1979,
The Palm Beach Times
was renamed
The Evening Times
. In 1987,
The Evening Times
and
The Post
merged into a single morning newspaper called
The Palm Beach Post
. In 1989, all assets and archives of the neighboring sister publication
Miami News
assets and archives were merged with
The Palm Beach Post
upon the closure of the former newspaper on New Year's Eve in 1988.
In 1996,
The Palm Beach Post
sponsored the
Scripps National Spelling Bee
winner
Wendy Guey
.
The Palm Beach Post
photographer
Dallas Kinney
won the 1970
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
for his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers,
Migration to Misery
.
The Post
has since had photographers been Pulitzer finalists three times.
[3]
The paper became nationally recognized for its coverage of the 2000 presidential election for reporting about flawed ballots occurring in Palm Beach County.
[4]
In 2003,
The Palm Beach Post
won an
American Society of Newspaper Editors
(ASNE) prize for their coverage on a local bishop's resignation following confirmed sexual abuse allegations.
[4]
Editor Edward Sears won the Editor of the Year award in 2004 from
Editor & Publisher
. Sears led the newsroom of
The Post
from 1985 to 2005.
[5]
On Oct. 31, 2017,
Cox Media Group
announced its plans to sell
The Palm Beach Post
and
Palm Beach Daily News
. In 2018, it was announced that
GateHouse Media
would buy the newspapers for US$49.25 million, with the deal closing on May 1.
[6]
As part of the
Gannett
and
GateHouse Media
merger of 2019, nine staffers were laid off from
The Palm Beach Post
in 2020.
[7]
[8]
Recent operations
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In March 1996, PalmBeachPost.com was launched.
In June 2008, the leaders of
The Post
decided to focus on the core readership area of Palm Beach County and southern Martin County. As digital readership grows, print readership slows. Faced with economic downturn and a changing industry,
The Post
reduced its payroll of 1,350 to about 1,000 and closes bureaus in Stuart, Port St. Lucie and Delray Beach.
In December 2008,
The Post
closed its presses and moved printing to the Deerfield Beach plant of the
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
.
On March 18, 2018,
The Palm Beach Post
was sold to the New York-based New Media Investment Group Inc. in a deal worth US$42.35 million.
In August 2018,
The Post
had its digital team launch the GateHouse Florida Digital Audience team to expand GateHouse's digital audience across Florida.
On April 4, 2019, the longtime editor Tim Burke accepted a lucrative position worth hundreds of thousands of dollars with LRP Media Group after the sale of
The Palm Beach Post
and all subsidies to the New York Conglomerate, New Media Investment Group. LRP is currently registered as a political research group in Florida.
On Dec. 17, 2020,
The Post
named Rick Christie as its executive editor.
[9]
See also
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References
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- ^
"Help Center ? The Palm Beach Post"
.
- ^
Gannett.
"Form 10-K"
.
Securities & Exchange Commission
. Retrieved
March 10,
2023
.
- ^
Pulitzer.org
Archived
2016-03-03 at the
Wayback Machine
.
- ^
a
b
"Gale Academic OneFile Select - Document - 10 That Do It RIGHT - The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Fla"
.
go.gale.com
. Retrieved
2021-04-01
.
- ^
E&P Staff (January 5, 2005).
"
'Palm Beach Post' Editor Edward Sears to Retire"
. Editor & Publisher
. Retrieved
June 1,
2014
.
- ^
"New Media acquires The Palm Beach Post & Palm Beach Daily News for $49.3M."
The Fly
, 28 Mar. 2018.
Gale General OneFile
, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A532598357/ITOF?u=mlin_m_wellcol&sid=ITOF&xid=9a7dc744. Accessed 1 Apr. 2021.
- ^
"9 staffers laid off at The Palm Beach Post as part of Gannett/GateHouse merger"
.
WPTV
. 2020-02-27
. Retrieved
2021-04-01
.
- ^
Tracy, Marc (2019-11-19).
"Gannett, Now Largest U.S. Newspaper Chain, Targets 'Inefficiencies'
"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
2021-04-01
.
- ^
Rose, Carol.
"Palm Beach Post names veteran journalist Rick Christie as executive editor"
.
The Palm Beach Post
. Retrieved
2021-06-18
.
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