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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Gannett |
| Founder(s) | Scripps-Howard |
| Editor | Adam Neal |
| Opinion editor | Laurence Reisman |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Florida |
| City | Port St. Lucie, Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Sister newspapers | Florida Today,The News-Press,Naples Daily News,Pensacola News Journal,Tallahassee Democrat,Palm Beach Post,The Daytona Beach News-Journal |
| Website | tcpalm |
TCPalm is the digital news site forTreasure Coast Newspapers, the largest daily news operation on theTreasure Coast of southeasternFlorida. The region encompasses three coastal counties:Martin County,St. Lucie County andIndian River County. Treasure Coast Newspapers publishes three daily print newspapers:The Stuart News,St. Lucie News Tribune and theIndian River Press Journal, as well as the weeklyLuminaries. The site was launched byScripps Howard newspapers in 1996, and has been owned byGannett since 2016.
Treasure Coast Newspapers was originally a group formed under theE.W. Scripps company, which acquired theStuart-based Martin County paper in 1965; theJupiter-based weekly publication in 1978; theVero Beach-based Indian River newspaper in 1997; and theFort Pierce-based St. Lucie newspaper in 2000. TheJupiter Courier,Sebastian Sun,Vero Beach Newsweekly andYourNews were other weekly newspapers formerly published by ownersScripps,Journal Media Group and finallyGannett. The group has also published several weekly business and lifestyle publications.
The Stuart News grew out of the merger of theStuart Times (1913) andStuart Messenger (1915), which was sold to the Clyma family in 1922. They converted the publication into a daily newspaper called theStuart Daily News in 1925, claiming then that Stuart was the smallest town in the U.S. to have a daily newspaper. Sold to Edwin A. Menninger in 1928, it was renamed theStuart News when it became a weekly in 1934. The newspaper was sold to Gordon B. Lockwood in 1957 and then Scripps in 1965, expanding to 5-day publication in 1973. A St. Lucie edition was added in 1976. The newspaper returned to daily publication in 1984, when it became a morning paper.[1]
TheFort Pierce-basedSt. Lucie News Tribune dates its origins to 1903 as the result of a 1920 merger of two weekly newspapers (theFort Pierce News and theSt. Lucie County Tribune). It switched to daily publication in 1926 and had been owned byFreedom Communications since 1969. In 2000, Scripps traded two northwest Florida newspapers,TheDestin Log (founded 1974, acquired by Scripps in 1984) andTheWalton County Log (founded by Scripps in 1992), to Freedom for theNews Tribune.[2]
The origins of theIndian River Press Journal lie in the weeklyVero Press, first published by Paul Nisle in 1919. In early 1926, brothers R.B. and J.C. Brossier, along with J.F. Schumann and son John Justin, arrived from theOrlando Reporter-Star and started the thrice-weeklyVero Beach Journal. A slowing economy weighed on both papers, including forcing thePress to cut back to weekly publication in January 1927 from its expanded six-day production schedule. ThePress was bought out by the Schumann group and the first edition of the weeklyVero Beach Press Journal was published in May 1927. During the 1970s, the newspaper changed from an afternoon to a morning edition and gradually added publication days until it became a daily in 1982.[3] At the time of its sale to Scripps in 1997,[4] it was the last daily newspaper in Florida wholly owned by a family.[5]