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Orlando Sentinel

The October 22, 2015, front page of the Orlando Sentinel
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Tribune Publishing
Publisher	Paul Pham
General manager	Paul Pham
Founded	1876
Headquarters	633 North Orange Avenue Orlando, Florida 32801 US
Circulation	151,000 Daily 258,000 Sunday
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.

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.

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

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.

In 1973, the two publications merged into the daily Sentinel Star. Tribune appointed Charles T. Brumback as president in 1976. Harold "Tip" Lifvendahl was named president and publisher in 1981. The newspaper was renamed the Orlando Sentinel in 1982. John Puerner succeeded Lifvendahl in 1993, who was replaced by Kathleen M. Waltz in 2000. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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

• Orlando Reporter: 1892–1903? (merged with Evening Star to form Evening Reporter-Star)
• Evening Star: January–December 1903? (merged with Orlando Reporter to form Evening Reporter-Star)
• Evening Reporter-Star: 1904?–March 1947 (continues Orlando Reporter and Evening Star; continued by Orlando Evening Star)
• Orlando Evening Star: April 1947 – 1973 (continues Evening Reporter-Star; merged with Orlando Morning Sentinel to form the Orlando Sentinel-Star)
• Orlando Morning Sentinel: 1913–1973 (title varies: Daily Sentinel; Morning Sentinel; merged with Orlando Evening Star to form the Orlando Sentinel-Star)
• Orlando Sentinel-Star: 1974–April 25, 1982 (continues Orlando Morning Sentinel and Orlando Evening Star; continued by Orlando Sentinel)
• Orlando Sentinel: April 26, 1982–present (continues Orlando Sentinel-Star)

Editorial history

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

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, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020.

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." It ultimately endorsed Biden, saying that he was "many things that Trump is not now and never will be."

Awards

• 1982: Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention for Small Newspapers for "The Federal Impact Series"
• 1988: Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, Jane Healy, "for her series of editorials protesting overdevelopment of Florida's Orange County."
• 1993: Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry, "for exposing the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from motorists—most of them minorities—by a sheriff's drug squad."
• 2000: Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, John C. Bersia, "for his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations."

Notable staff

• Michael A. Bianchi: sports columnist
• Jane Healy, first Sentinel journalist to receive a Pulitzer Prize
• Jemele Hill, ESPN sportscaster and columnist
• Scott Maxwell, Opinion columnist, was featured as a question on Jeopardy! and is normally listed on the list of Orlando Magazine's Most Powerful People

See also

• El Sentinel (Orlando)
• El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel
• Tribune Company
• Tribune Publishing

References

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5. Folkenflik, David (May 21, 2021). "'Vulture' Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers". NPR. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
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11. Rene Stutzman (July 30, 1993). "Lifvendahl To Tribune Senior Vp". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
12. Rene Stutzman (October 4, 1993). "New Era At Sentinel". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
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21. See Florida Newspapers Archived 2006-01-30 at the Wayback Machine—a list of Florida newspapers for which indexes or full-text are available at the University of Central Florida Library.
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23. Bennett, Dashiell (October 19, 2012). "Orlando Sentinel Backs Romney After Endorsing Obama in 2008". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
24. "Orlando Sentinel endorses Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton for nominations". WGNO. March 6, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
25. ^ "Joe Biden for president, because he can get us out of Trump's mess". Orlando Sentinel. August 28, 2020.
26. "Orlando Sentinel newspaper makes 'not Trump' anti-endorsement". MSNBC. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
27. Klar, Rebecca (June 18, 2019). "Orlando Sentinel declines to endorse Trump in 2020". The Hill. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
28. Hopkins, Anna (June 18, 2019). "Orlando Sentinel issues scathing op-ed announcing it won't endorse Donald Trump in 2020 election". Fox News. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
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30. "Historical Winners List". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
31. "Tribune Biography: Mike Bianchi". Archived from the original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
32. Gunter, Debbie (October 28, 2015). "The CP Interview with Scott Maxwell". The Community Paper. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
33. "50 Most Powerful People in Orlando". Orlando Magazine. June 26, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2022.

External links

• Official website
• Today's Orlando Sentinel front page at the Freedom Forum website
• Historical archives of The Orlando Sentinel and The Morning Sentinel freely and openly available as full searchable text and zoomable page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library

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