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The ''Daily News'' first began publishing photographs with its articles in [[1905]].
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{{Infobox Publication
|name=''Pensacola Daily News''
|image=DailyNews.PNG
|image_size=200px
|image_caption=April 1900 issue of the ''Daily News''
|type=Broadsheet
|editor=[[John C. Witt]]
|editor_title=Managing editor
|staff=
|publisher=[[John O'Connor (publisher)|John O'Connor]]<br/>[[John C. Witt]]<br/>[[John Holliday Perry]] (1924-1985}
|owner=
|frequency=Daily
|circulation=
|cost=
|founded=
|firstdate=[[March 5]], [[1889]]
|firstnumber=
|finaldate=
|finalnumber=
|headquarters=[[Armory Hall]]<br/>[[Pitt Building]]
|website=
}}
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."
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''.
