The
Sentinels 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. 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. •
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 ==