[[Image:JournalBuilding{{Infobox Publication|name=''Pensacola Journal''|image=PensacolaJournal.PNG|thumbimage_size=200px|right|The image_caption=July 1908 issue of the ''Journal'' Building at the corner of |type=Broadsheet|editor=[[Frank L. Mayes]]|editor_title=Editor|staff=|publisher=[[William Marion Loftin]]<br/>[[Frank L. Mayes]]<br/>[[Intendencia StreetJohn Holliday Perry]] (1922-1985)|owner=|frequency=Daily|circulation=|cost=|founded=|Intendenciafirstdate=[[1897]] and |firstnumber=|finaldate=|finalnumber=|headquarters=108-110 East [[DeLuna Government Street]]s, circa 1906.<br/>[[Journal Building|15 East Intendencia Street]]|website=}}The '''''Pensacola Journal''''' was a morning newspaper founded in [[1897]] by [[William Marion Loftin]]. It The ''Journal'' is one of two precursors to the modern ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]''. ==Early years==The new paper was founded as a weekly, with Loftin as editor.<ref>[https://ssl1.gmti.com/pns/helpdesk/history.shtml "Get to Know Us > History"]</ref> In [[1898]] it became a daily, but foundered until [[Frank L. Mayes]] took over as editor in [[1899]]. In [[1904]], the ''Journal'' became a member of the [[Wikipedia:Associated Press|Associated Press]]. In [[1906]], the ''Journal'' constructed an occupied a [[Journal Building|new plant and office]] at 15 East [[Intendencia Street]]. The ''Journal'' was purchased in [[1922]] by [[John Holliday Perry]], who also purchased the competing ''[[Pensacola Daily News]]'' in [[1924]] and merged the two operations into what is now the ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]''. Morning editions continue to bear the ''Pensacola Journal'' name until [[1985]].
According to an 1899 ''[[Bliss Magazine]]'' "Guide to Pensacola":
<blockquote>There are few homes which is does not enter and business men are consequently finding it an invaluable advertising medium, and those wishing a fine talking bird can depend upon a selection by this gentleman and at a reasonable price.<ref>[[Chas. H. Bliss]]. "Guide to Pensacola and Western Florida," ''The Bliss Magazine''. January 1899.</ref></blockquote>
==Other images==
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Image:JournalBuilding.PNG|The [[Journal Building]] at the corner of [[Intendencia Street|Intendencia]] and [[DeLuna Street]]s, circa 1906.
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