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The October 22, 2015, front page of the
Orlando Sentinel
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Tribune Publishing [1]
PublisherPaul Pham
General managerPaul Pham [2]
Founded1876
Headquarters633 North Orange Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
US
Circulation 151,000 Daily
258,000 Sunday [3]
ISSN 0744-6055
OCLC number 1084339260
Website orlandosentinel.com

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and the Central Florida region, in the United States. It was founded in 1876 and is currently owned by Tribune Publishing Company.

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The Orlando Sentinel is owned by parent company, Tribune Publishing . Tribune Publishing was acquired in May 2021 by a hedge fund, Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

The newspaper's website utilizes geo-blocking, making it inaccessible from European countries. [9]

History

The Sentinel's predecessors date to 1876, when the Orange County Reporter was first published. The Reporter became a daily newspaper in 1905, and merged with the Orlando Evening Star in 1906. Another Orlando paper, the South Florida Sentinel, started publishing as a morning daily in 1913. Then known as the Morning Sentinel, it bought the Reporter-Star in 1931, when Martin Andersen came to Orlando to manage both papers. Andersen eventually bought both papers outright in 1945, selling them to the Tribune Company of Chicago in 1965. [10]

In 1973, the two publications merged into the daily Sentinel Star. Tribune appointed Charles T. Brumback as president in 1976. [10] Harold "Tip" Lifvendahl was named president and publisher in 1981. [11] The newspaper was renamed the Orlando Sentinel in 1982. John Puerner succeeded Lifvendahl in 1993, [12] who was replaced by Kathleen M. Waltz in 2000. [13] In that same year the sentinel gained seven sister newspapers as Tribune Co. announces its merger with Times Mirror, adding the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant and three others to the Tribune Publishing operation. [14] Waltz announced her resignation in February 2008. Howard Greenberg, already publisher of fellow Tribune newspaper the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, was named publisher of both papers after Waltz left. [15]

In 2008, the Tribune Company called for a redesign of the Sentinel. The new layout, which debuted in June 2008, was formatted to appeal to busy readers, though like all of the redesigns in Tribune's Sam Zell ownership era, was reeled back into a more traditional design with appealing elements kept after reader criticism. [16] [17]

In 2018, the Orlando Sentinel and its corporate siblings began blocking access to Internet users in the European Union because their websites lacked compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation act. [18] [19] [20] [9]

According to one listing, some of the Sentinel's predecessors are: [21]

Editorial history

Editorially, the Sentinel originally tilted conservative. From 1952 to 2004, it endorsed Republicans in every election save for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. [22]

However, while many of Central Florida's surrounding communities remained ostensibly conservative, demographic and political shifts in the late 1990s/early 2000 in the central Orlando urban core and inn its immediately adjacent areas became increasingly liberal and/or progressive majority in their makeup. Following that trend, the paper has endorsed Democratic candidates for president in four of the last five presidential elections: John Kerry in 2004, Barack Obama in 2008, [23] Hillary Clinton in 2016, [24] and Joe Biden in 2020. [25]

In June 2019, the day of President Donald Trump's re-election campaign launch rally in Orlando, the Sentinel made national news when the editorial board published a piece saying it would not endorse the president, among their reasons, "the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies." [22] [26] [27] [28] It ultimately endorsed Biden, saying that he was "many things that Trump is not now and never will be." [25]

Awards

Notable staff

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References

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  2. ↑ Lyons, David (November 7, 2020). "Paul Pham named general manager at Orlando Sentinel". orlandosentinel.com. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Tribune Publishing Public Filing FORM 10-12B/A" (PDF). July 21, 2014. p. 97. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ Roeder, David (May 26, 2021). "Chicago Tribune staff gets buyout offers as Alden takes over". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
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  9. 1 2 "We are currently unavailable from your region". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
  10. 1 2 "History of the Orlando Sentinel". OrlandoSentinel.com. January 2001.
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  12. ↑ Rene Stutzman (October 4, 1993). "New Era At Sentinel". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
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  25. 1 2 "Joe Biden for president, because he can get us out of Trump's mess". Orlando Sentinel. August 28, 2020.
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