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It was an audacious leap of faith, still clouded in a bit of mystery, with long-lasting implications.<\/p>\n

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Rufus A. Russell, a Methodist minister and recent arrival in the newly incorporated town of Orlando, decided to create its first newspaper. He named his weekly publication the Orange County Reporter.<\/p>\n

The Orlando Sentinel is the ultimate descendant of the Reporter and the reason we are celebrating our 150th anniversary today.<\/p>\n

In the mid-1870s, Orlando had no business having a newspaper because it hardly had any business at all. There were just three stores, a saloon, a livery stable and a little courthouse. The isolated settlement, home to about 200 townsfolk, had no railroad (that was years away), and its roads (if you could call them that) were little more than old Seminole Indian trails.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where you want to start a newspaper? Rev. Russell prayed that it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe history of Orange County journalism begins with Russell\u2019s Reporter, a brave little trailblazer,\u201d Sentinel reporter Charlie Jean wrote for our 100th anniversary celebration in 1976. \u201cThe editors who followed and the papers that followed were to make that history one of turbulence, heartbreak and triumph, leadership, fierce competition, the survival of the fittest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Reporter was first, but many others would follow.<\/p>\n

Two would survive with the Reporter to become part of the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s lineage. The South Florida Sentinel (yes, we were considered South Florida back then) appeared in 1885, and the Orlando Star arrived in 1896.<\/p>\n

Over the years, these publications would form, sever and re-form partnerships that led to newspapers called Sentinel-Reporter, Reporter-Star and Sentinel-Star. Adjectives like \u201cweekly,\u201d \u201ctriweekly,\u201d \u201cdaily,\u201d \u201cevening,\u201d \u201cmorning\u201d and \u201cSunday\u201d were variously included.<\/p>\n

The final consolidation came in 1973, when the weekday and Saturday editions of the Orlando Sentinel and the Orlando Evening Star were combined to form a newspaper called simply the Sentinel Star. Our final name change came in 1982, when Orlando was added back and Star was dropped.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been the Orlando Sentinel since and proudly trace our roots to the historic-but-murky start of Russell\u2019s Orange County Reporter.<\/p>\n

Starting a newspaper<\/h4>\n

For more than a century, it\u2019s been a challenge to tell a complete story of the early years of Orlando journalism. References in history books and old newspapers often conflict. Dates sometimes don\u2019t line up.<\/p>\n

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The reason? A fire destroyed the Reporter\u2019s building, archives and records in 1884, erasing the best source of historical information.<\/p>\n

Only a handful of pre-fire editions of the Reporter exist, and there are no known surviving copies of the first issue.<\/p>\n

The Sentinel has long used June 6, 1876, as the day of the Reporter\u2019s first edition. Some sources have cited dates as early as June 1875 and as late as April 1878 for the newspaper\u2019s start. The Reporter added to the confusion by referencing two different start dates when it printed a 50th anniversary special edition in the 1920s.<\/p>\n

Regardless of when it began, there\u2019s universal agreement that creating and publishing the first Reporter was a challenge.<\/p>\n

First, Russell had to order his hand-operated press and other equipment, waiting weeks for their arrival in Sanford via steamship. Then, according to a story published in 1925, \u201cthe heavy presses and materials were trundled over the rutted sandy roads in ox carts to Orlando.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVolume 1, Number 1 \u2013 or in other words, the first issue \u2013 was a very odd looking paper, small when folded, approximately 9-by-12 inches, containing a conglomeration of news and patent medicine ads,\u201d the story said. The staff consisted of three people \u2013 Russell, his father R.A. and Charles H. Munger \u2013 who took on the roles of \u201ceditor, pressman, compositor, reporter, advertising salesman and frequently newsboy in order to bring the Reporter each week to the homes of the subscribers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newspaper\u2019s long hours and financial challenges may have taken a toll on Russell. A few months after helping give birth to the Reporter, Russell left Orlando to focus on the ministry. But he apparently still had some newspaper ink in his veins.<\/p>\n

After relocating to the Jacksonville area, he would establish a weekly religious newspaper, the Florida Methodist, and later the Florida Metropolis, which would become the Jacksonville Journal. His death, at age 75 on April 29, 1930, was atop the front page of the Journal. It noted his \u201cdistinguished career as citizen, minister and newspaper executive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Damn fool\u2019 Gore arrives<\/h4>\n

When Russell left, he sold his stake in the Reporter. Other sales quickly followed, including one in 1880 to a man who would provide stability and help grow the newspaper as well as the town it covered.<\/p>\n

Mahlon Gore, born in Michigan in 1837, started his newspaper career at age 15 when he joined the Marshall (Mich.) Statesman. Later, in Iowa, he would run the Sioux City Journal for 10 years and establish the Sioux City Tribune.<\/p>\n

Eventually Gore, his health failing, was told by a doctor to move to Florida. He headed south in the spring of 1880.<\/p>\n

\u201cMahlon Gore got as far as Sanford by boat and had to walk to Orlando,\u201d Gore\u2019s nephew, E.H. Gore, recounted in a 1953 interview with the Orlando Evening Star:\u00a0 \u201cHe walked for two days, when he came upon a cowboy, whom he asked for directions to Orlando. Though they seemed out in the wilderness at the time, the cowboy told Uncle Mahlon, \u2018You damn fool, you\u2019re in Orlando now!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Gore kept walking and found a boarding house on the north side of Lake Eola. Its proprietor was S.B. Harrington, also the latest owner of the Orange County Reporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe newspaper at that time was in bad financial straits,\u201d E.H. Gore said. \u201cThe boarding house owner \u2018dumped\u2019 the newspaper on Uncle Mahlon, and he proved its savior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gore took over the Reporter in June 1880, boosted circulation and hired more employees, teaching them the printing trade.<\/p>\n

Then tragedy struck, and the end of the Reporter seemed near.<\/p>\n

Fire and fidelity<\/h4>\n

In the early hours of Jan. 12, 1884, a fire spread through Orlando\u2019s business area and destroyed four buildings. \u201cMahlon Gore bore the brunt of the loss with the complete destruction of his newspaper plant, which was not insured,\u201d historian Eve Bacon wrote in her book, \u201cOrlando: A Centennial History.\u201d<\/p>\n

An old press and \u201ca half-worn out lead pencil\u201d were the only items that survived, Gore said.<\/p>\n

The embers may have still been glowing when Gore decided to travel to Sanford to arrange for a small \u201cfire edition\u201d of his newspaper to be printed there with news of Orlando\u2019s blaze. He had lost everything, and this would likely be the last issue of the Reporter.<\/p>\n

Orlando\u2019s business leaders and residents had other plans.\u00a0 Impressed with Gore\u2019s newspaper and its promotion of the town, they pooled resources to rescue the Reporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn his return to Orlando, Mr. Gore was met at the train and taken to the Sinclair Real Estate office where he was presented with $1,200 in cash and $300 for new subscriptions,\u201d Bacon wrote. Supporters also gave him a new building to use.<\/p>\n

Touched by the generosity, Gore would remark, \u201cThe Reporter had no policy in any organized insurance company or soulless corporation. It was insured by the souls of the grandest and noblest company of men and women that ever rallied around a newspaper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gore and the Reporter were back in business, but new challenges were just around the corner.<\/p>\n

South Florida Sentinel arrives<\/h4>\n

Latimer Clark Vaughn, an Englishman who had published newspapers in North Carolina and Florida\u2019s panhandle, decided to start a second weekly newspaper in Orlando in 1885. He would call it the South Florida Sentinel.<\/p>\n

In a 1960 story, the Orlando Sentinel described Vaughn as \u201ca colorful character.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was once attacked by Orlando Judge Thomas Picton Warlow, who \u201cno doubt resented Vaughn\u2019s editorials and decided to upbraid him physically,\u201d the Sentinel recalled. \u201cHe is said to have met Vaughn on the street and knocked him down with a single blow by his fist.\u201d<\/p>\n

On another occasion, a prosecutor in Sanford was unhappy with Vaughn\u2019s criticism of his work.<\/p>\n

Learning that the lawyer planned to meet him at a train station to lash him with a whip, Vaughn took matters into his own hands.\u00a0 \u201cHe got a gun,\u201d the Sentinel said. \u201cUpon leaving the train and being confronted by the prosecuting attorney, Vaughn somehow wrestled the whip away from the attorney and lashed him instead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Warlow would deliver another painful blow to Vaughn \u2013 helping start the competing Orlando Star newspaper in 1896.<\/p>\n

A decade of hope and failure<\/h4>\n

In 1891, after owning the Reporter for more than a decade, Mahlon Gore sold the newspaper to Samuel R. Hudson of Kansas City.<\/p>\n

Hudson immediately created the Daily Reporter \u2013 the third attempt at establishing a daily publication in Orlando. Unfortunately, the Daily Reporter was no more successful than its predecessors, coming oh-so-close to reaching the 20th century but ending daily publication in May or June of 1899. The weekly Reporter would continue, though.<\/p>\n

The 1890s were tough all around. The nation was in an economic depression and so was Orlando, following back-to-back freezes that killed the local citrus economy. During the decade, the city\u2019s population would drop from 10,000 to just 2,481 by 1900.<\/p>\n

Facing declining readership and advertising, the Reporter and Sentinel called a truce to competition in 1899.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Orange County Reporter and the South Florida Sentinel will be consolidated, the first issue of the new paper appearing next Friday under the name of the Orlando Sentinel-Reporter,\u201d Sentinel owner Vaughn said then. \u201cThere was not business enough to justify the publishing of both papers, and the management wisely decided upon the above course.<\/p>\n

A.L. LaSalle of the Sentinel and S.R. Hudson were named as editors and publishers of the weekly paper. The Sentinel-Reporter partnership would end in 1903 when the Sentinel\u2019s new owners \u2013 one of whom was Frank Stoneman, father of author Marjory Stoneman Douglas \u2013 left the city to start a newspaper in Miami. (It would become the Miami Herald.)<\/p>\n

New century, new publications<\/h4>\n

As the 1900s started, a man named Josiah Ferris would play a big role in Orlando journalism.<\/p>\n

Having arrived in 1887, he worked first for Mahlon Gore but in the next 50 years \u201cwould have an association with practically every newspaper in Orlando,\u201d historian Bacon wrote. That included helping establish two long-lasting daily newspapers in the first decade of the new century.<\/p>\n

The Reporter became a daily newspaper (again) in October 1905, and Ferris was among its editors. Four months later, he would form a partnership with Walter D. Yowell, owner of the now-daily Evening Star, to buy the Reporter and merge it with the Star. A coin flip decided the new newspaper would be named the Reporter-Star.<\/p>\n

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In 1907, Ferris sold his stake in the Reporter-Star (it\u2019s not clear why). He immediately acquired the assets and equipment of the old South Florida Sentinel and resumed its publication as a weekly newspaper.<\/p>\n

Six years later, on Feb. 11, 1913, he launched the Daily Sentinel \u2013 Orlando\u2019s first successful morning newspaper. It published every day except Monday, and its start coincided with the opening of the Orange County Fair, providing Ferris a chance to expose fair-goers to his new offering.<\/p>\n

He promised to print the Sentinel daily for two weeks as a test, but said he needed 200 subscribers in order to continue beyond that. He had 900 people subscribe to his paper in the first week.<\/p>\n

From boom to bust<\/h4>\n

Ferris would sell the renamed Orlando Morning Sentinel to Walter Essington and William Glenn of Indiana in 1914. R.B. and J.C. Brossier, twin brothers from Key West, would purchase the Evening Reporter-Star the same year.<\/p>\n

Both newspapers prospered and grew rapidly during the Florida land boom of the early 1920s, with each reportedly making more money in that decade than they would later in the 1950s. But as the Roaring 1920s closed, the boom went bust and both newspapers were nearly broke.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Florida boom burst, the papers were hit hard. Then came the destructive Mediterranean fruit fly, which caused the burning of many groves and then a second depression,\u201d historian Ormund Powers would write. \u201cThen came the stock market crash of 1929, the national depression \u2026 The owners of the two Orlando papers were forced to borrow money, even though they could not pay back earlier loans. Advertising dropped off and the owners had to trim their slim staffs even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Jan. 25, 1931, the distressed Sentinel and ailing Reporter-Star announced that they had both been purchased by General Newspapers Inc., a company affiliated with Texas newspaper publisher Charles Marsh.<\/p>\n

The journalistic marriage, announced on the front page of the jointly published \u201cOrlando Sunday Sentinel and Sunday Reporter-Star,\u201d seemed amicable. \u201cThe two publications which have been highly competitive in the past are merging for the best interests of business houses, advertisers, subscribers and the community,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The deal called for the Reporter-Star staff and equipment to move into the Sentinel\u2019s building. The Sentinel would print its morning paper and the evening Reporter-Star \u2013 with Marsh\u2019s General Newspapers overseeing advertising and subscriptions for both.<\/p>\n

Misunderstandings about how this marriage was supposed to work led to a very messy, very public separation weeks later.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not me, it\u2019s you<\/h4>\n

Reporter-Star employees, unhappy with the new corporate relationship, snuck into the Sentinel building in the early hours of March 24, moved all their belongings and equipment back to their old building and started producing their newspaper on their own again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Reporter-Star is being published today under its former management,\u201d a front-page announcement said. \u201cA proposed sale of the plant of the Reporter-Star to General Newspapers Inc. was not consummated according to notices heretofore given about the middle of last January.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caught off guard by the Reporter-Star\u2019s overnight exit \u2013 and having already collected money from advertisers and subscribers expecting both a morning and evening newspaper each day \u2013 the Morning Sentinel had to quickly create an evening newspaper of its own or risk losing money. In what it called, \u201ca new record for emergency issuance of a daily newspaper,\u201d the Orlando Evening Sentinel was born, published and delivered on the fly in less than a day.<\/p>\n

The following evening \u2013 in a 1930s version of an Instagram post intended to make an ex jealous \u2013 the Reporter-Star published a large front-page photo of what it said were bouquets of flowers it had received from admirers after announcing its breakup with the Sentinel. \u201cReporter-Star friends say it with flowers,\u201d was the headline above the photo.<\/p>\n

Things continued spiraling. With the Evening Sentinel now competing directly against the Evening Reporter-Star, the latter announced the creation of a new morning newspaper to directly challenge the Morning Sentinel. Orlando, in the midst of the Great Depression with many of its people jobless and hungry, ridiculously now had four daily newspapers battling each other.<\/p>\n

The back-and-forth feuding, printed with updates each day for readers to follow, grabbed attention across the state. \u201cIt does seem a bit absurd for a city as small as Orlando to have four daily newspapers,\u201d the Stuart News snorted.<\/p>\n

Someone needed to help repair this broken relationship before everyone went bankrupt. Fortunately, the right man was found.<\/p>\n

A 3-month mission in Orlando<\/h4>\n

Martin Andersen was 33 years old with just $35 in his pocket when he stepped off an overnight train in Orlando in 1931. Having worked for Marsh in Texas, he was asked to come to Orlando for three months to sort out the mess involving the Sentinel and Reporter-Star.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter some negotiations between Marsh and the Brossiers, which we sat in on, the twins decided to go through with their deal,\u201d Andersen recalled in 1960. \u201cMarsh made them some concessions and they married up again.\u201d After just a few weeks, Orlando went back to being a two-newspaper town.<\/p>\n

Andersen was to run the Sentinel and Reporter-Star, but Marsh said there was no salary for him. Marsh told Andersen he\u2019d cover his living expenses \u2013 up to about $40 a week. \u201cYou must have heard about this depression,\u201d Marsh said. \u201cIt is still with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed it was. The newspapers \u201cseemed to owe everybody, locally and around the county,\u201d Andersen said, \u201cbut one by one we managed to straighten out the debts and dodge the sheriff\u2019s padlock.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the end of his three-month mission, Andersen had fallen in love with Orlando. Marsh asked him to stay in town, but Andersen said he wanted an ownership stake in the papers. Marsh agreed to give him 10% if he stayed in Orlando for the next three years. Andersen would remain for 55.<\/p>\n

Andersen threw himself into his work at the Sentinel and Reporter-Star. \u201cWe were editor, publisher, financier and sometimes printer\u2019s devil,\u201d Andersen recalled. \u201cWe wrote editorials, we wrote news stories, we wrote advertising \u2026 We printed 13 issues a week, and Sundays and Saturdays were mostly just another working day.\u201d<\/p>\n

When President Franklin Roosevelt temporarily closed the nation\u2019s banks in 1932 to stop panic withdrawals, the Sentinel and Reporter-Star ran out of money. \u201cSo we printed our own,\u201d Andersen said. \u201cWe paid 80% of everybody\u2019s wages in Sentinel-Star scrip, which was accepted at grocery and other stores and nobody put us in jail. Merchants took the scrip \u00a0and paid their advertising bills [with it] and circulated it around town.\u201d<\/p>\n

To help lure shoppers to Orlando for the newspapers\u2019 advertisers and to provide readers for his newspapers, Andersen created Orlando\u2019s \u201cSanta Claus Parade\u201d in 1935. The Sentinel financed the event \u201cby paying $1,500 for some moth-eaten reindeer\u201d and old Santa himself. Some 65,000 people attended and it was the largest shopping day in city history, the Sentinel reported.<\/p>\n

Power, influence and results<\/h4>\n

Andersen bonded with Orlando and its newspapers. He attempted to buy them from Marsh in 1938 before backing out of the deal. He finally purchased them in 1945.<\/p>\n

Andersen would build them into incredibly influential publications, which led to him being recognized as one of Florida\u2019s most powerful men. He would have regular meetings with local leaders as well as governors, congressmen and senators \u2013 also forming a friendship with a politician from his old Texas newspaper days, future president Lyndon B. Johnson.<\/p>\n

His personal and political connections allowed him to successfully crusade for causes such as better roads for Orlando and Central Florida to lure more visitors. He\u2019s credited with using his clout to get Interstate 4 routed to Orlando, for Florida\u2019s Turnpike to go through Orange County and for the construction of State Road 520 to Cocoa.<\/p>\n

State Road 528, connecting Orlando with the Kennedy Space Center in Brevard, is another visible reminder of his influence with signs identifying it as the \u201cMartin B. Andersen Beachline Expressway.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Orlando Army Air Base closed, his lobbying led the Navy to establish its Naval Training Center in Orlando. When a new state university was being discussed in the early 1960s, he pushed Tallahassee lawmakers to put it in Orlando. It\u2019s now called the University of Central Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy greatest accomplishment,\u201d Andersen would declare in a 1976 interview, \u201cwas coming here a total stranger, dead broke, and being accepted by the leaders of the community. We\u2019d go on those trips, fish and talk and work things out, go see people, get things done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big changes ahead<\/h4>\n

Saying \u201cSentinel and Reporter-Star\u201d was quite a mouthful when referring to Orlando\u2019s newspapers. Andersen preferred the alliterative \u201cSentinel Star,\u201d and slowly \u201cReporter\u201d was phased out.<\/p>\n

Its name was dropped from the Sunday edition in June 1934. In 1946, it was erased from the name of daily evening edition, ending a 70-year run of \u201cReporter\u201d being part of some Orlando newspaper\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

As the Sentinel and Star grew, Andersen made a huge investment and built a new headquarters for them in downtown Orlando in 1951 at 633. N. Orange Avenue. The building would become the newspaper\u2019s home for the next 69 years, and the Sentinel Star\u2019s footprint would eventually encompass more than two blocks.<\/p>\n

Andersen surprised his staff and readers in 1965 when decided to sell the two newspapers he shepherded through the tough times of the 1930s and into the space age of the 1960s. On July 15, he announced that the Chicago Tribune Co. would buy the Sentinel and Star. The once broke Andersen was now a very wealthy man.<\/p>\n

He would tell managers, \u201cthe decision to sell was greatly influenced by his desire to assure continuance of the newspapers, and to protect the security of the people who had helped build the Sentinel and the Star,\u201d it was reported that day. Andersen would remain with the newspapers until retiring in 1966, and he kept close tabs afterward on how they were doing.<\/p>\n

He died in May 1986. \u201cWithout his thundering crusades, business and political leaders say, without his friendship with Lyndon B. Johnson, Central Florida today would have no Walt Disney World, no Martin Marietta, no Naval Training Center,\u201d the Sentinel reported in his obituary.<\/p>\n

The Sentinel today<\/h4>\n

The weekday and Saturday editions of the Evening Star ended in 1973 when the paper was merged with the morning Orlando Sentinel. The combined newspaper was given the rather generic name Sentinel Star. Though familiar to longtime residents, it had no obvious connection to Orlando for hundreds of thousands of yearly visitors (and potential newspaper readers). Thus it was replaced with Orlando Sentinel in 1982. (Many locals kept calling us the Sentinel Star for at least another decade.)<\/p>\n

Our history since includes winning Pulitzer Prizes in 1988, 1993 and 2000 and being a Pulitzer finalist in 2013 and 2016. In 1995, the Sentinel became one of the first newspapers in the nation to establish a digital presence, with OrlandoSentinel.com following in 1996. The Sentinel partnered with Time Warner to help create the 24-hour local news channel now known as Spectrum News 13 in 1997.<\/p>\n

We also weathered a protracted corporate bankruptcy that followed after the Tribune Co. acquired the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers for $6.5 billion in 2000. We outsourced our printing and dismantled our presses in 2017 to focus our resources on news-gathering. We left our longtime-but-now-oversized downtown campus during the COVID pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n

Most people who read the Orlando Sentinel today do so on smart phones or computers. Its digital audience, drawing visitors from not only Central Florida but across the nation and world, easily eclipses print readership.<\/p>\n

As it has for more than 100 years, the Sentinel still produces a daily print newspaper and is one of only a handful in Florida still publishing seven days a week. Printing is done at our sister publication, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, with the copies transported to the Orlando area for home delivery.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s evident the Orlando Sentinel has gone through a lot of changes over the past 150 years. What has not and will not change is our commitment to our readers and our advertisers.<\/p>\n

Paraphrasing what the staff of our grandfather, the Reporter, said for its 50th birthday: We will continue to accurately chronicle the events of passing interest, and unfailingly and faithfully serve the members of our city, county and region.<\/p>\n

More stories and features from the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s 150 years of covering Central Florida can be found at OrlandoSentinel.com\/150. Sign up for our free history newsletter at OrlandoSentinel.com\/newsletters<\/em><\/p>\n

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