bought the property in May 1996. The free, monthly, tabloid publications are localized for each of the five zones: Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin and north Palm Beach counties.
Most, usually all, stories are locally written by freelance writers. Reader participation is encouraged. The emphasis is on active lifestyles, and includes columns on topics such as health, travel and finance that are taylored for--but not limited to--the interests of mature readers.
Occasionally there is a special supplement inserted into the regular edition which will have a different date. All regular issues are arbitrarily dated the 1st of the month, however, the exact date of the supplement is used in the online data. Therefore, any articles dated other than the 1st of the month will be from a special supplement issued that particular month.
The Press Journal of Vero Beach is the paper of record in Indian River County. Lucie and south Brevard County. The paper dates back to 1927 when the Vero Beach Press merged with the Vero Beach Journal.
It has a long-standing commitment to comprehensive local news coverage which has gained state and national honors. It also provides a mix of state, national and international news. The paper is based in Vero Beach, a community known for its citrus, as the spring home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and as the home of Piper Aircraft Corp.
The Jupiter Courier, purchased by E.W. Scripps Company in 1978, has grown from a first shopper into a twice-weekly paid subscription publication.
It also includes the Jupiter Courier EXTRA, a shopper spin-off, with a focus on issues in northern Palm Beach and southern Martin Counties on Florida's Gold Coast. The market is one of the most affluent areas in the country. The Jupiter Courier is headquartered in Jupiter, Florida, home of the famous Jupiter Lighthouse, completed in 1861 and the site of the 1838 Battle of the Loxahatchee.
Its readership area covers Jupiter, Tequesta, Juno Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter Farms - the site of the Burt Reynolds Ranch - and a rapidly developing unincorporated portion of the two-county area. Future development in the community covered by The Jupiter Courier is expected to include a branch of Florida Atlantic University and a spring training facility of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Montreal Expos.
The Jupiter Courier has been named Florida's premier community newspaper by The Florida Press Association in five of the past seven years. The Treasure Coast Business Journal is a bimonthly publication dedicated to informing business people and investors in Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River Counties.
Founded in 1986, the publication eventually became part of Scripps Treasure Coast Publishing Company, which included 50 Plus Lifestyles. In March 1993, the company was aquired by Mark Schumann, whose father owned the Vero Beach Press Journal. The newspaper was published weekly for a short time after Schumann acquired the paper, but later reverted back top a monthly.
TCP was acquired by the E.W. in May 1996.
The newspaper, which has a circulation of about 18,200, is mailed free to selected readers on the Treasure Coast and Palm Beach County. Florida Fairways, founded in Spring 2002, is a quarterly guide to the Southern golf lifestyle. At present, it has one edition, focusing on golf and related lifestyle issues in Northern Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.
It is a highly visual tabloid magazine with listings of clubs, features on area amateurs and professionals, food, homes, courses, travel, etc. It also has several columns, such as rules, the mental game and fitness, each issue. "Give light," says the Scripps motto from beneath its familiar lighthouse logo, "and the people will find their own way.
" Now one of the nation's largest news, information and entertainment enterprises, the Cincinnati-based company has been shining its light since 1878. That's the year its founder, Edward W. Scripps, started The Penny Press in Cleveland with $10,000 borrowed from family members.
His commitment to affordable and accessible newspapers began an information revolution that shaped the concept of mass media. Today, 1.4 million readers turn to Scripps newspapers every day, making the company the nation's 10th-largest newspaper publisher.
The company also was a television pioneer and today owns stations that serve nearly 10 percent of the American viewing public. The company's newest division, "category television," includes its 24-hour cable television networks, Home Garden Television, the Food Network and Do it Yourself. The company plans to launch a fourth network - Fine Living - in the second half of 2001.
Its remaining businesses have been bundled under the category, "licensing and other media." That segment includes United Media, which syndicates and licenses 150 news features and comics, including DILBERT and the world's most read strip, PEANUTS. The origin of the Scripps lighthouse is credited to the late Carl C.
Magee, editor and publisher of the New Mexico State Tribune, now The Albuquerque Tribune. Magee wrote a page-one column in The Tribune under the headline "Turning on the Light." The column eventually appeared under a lighthouse and the line, "Give light and the people will find their own way.
" Scripps, which bought The Tribune in 1923, adopted the lighthouse and slogan as its trademark in 1927. A new trademark, a stylized lighthouse, was adopted in April 1985. The bold contemporary design retains the idea of "shedding light," while serving many facets and uniting the Scripps family.
The publications comprising Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers represent a century of service to communities along Florida's East Coast. During the early 1900's, these places we now know as thriving cities were just tiny villages existing in semi-isolation. These newspapers have chronicles events, through good and bad times as our communities evolved and grew.
On December 11, 1903, the weekly Fort Pierce News was founded. In 1905, the year St. Lucie County was formed, with a population of about 3,000, a competing weekly, the St.
The two papers merged on March 1, 1920 to form the Fort Pierce News Tribune. Through the early 1960s the paper has a succession of different owners, mostly local businessmen. For several decades the newspaper was edited by Charles S.
Meanwhile, on April 18, 1913, The Stuart Times, a weekly was founded by Will Hawley Stevens, who had been a printer for the Fort Pierce News. In 1915 a competing weekly, The Stuart Messenger, was established. In 1917 Stevens sold the Times to the owners of the Fort Pierce News, who soon acquired the Messenger and merged the two Stuart papers under the Messenger nameplate.
The next owners, the Clyma family, bought the Messenger in 1922 and published it weekly until 1925, at the height of that decade's great economic boom in Florida. 2, 1925 they converted it to a daily and renamed it The Stuart Daily News - boasting that Stuart was the smallest own in the nation to have its own daily newspaper. In 1925, both Martin and Indian River counties were created by act of the Legislature.
bought the property in May 1996.
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