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The Florida Times-Union, based in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, is the major daily newspaper in northeast Florida. Widely known as the oldest newspaper in the state, it began publication as the Florida Union in 1864. Its current incarnation started in 1883, when two existing newspapers in the city, the Florida Daily Times and the Florida Union, consolidated. A Southeast Georgia edition, called The Georgia Times-Union, serves the Brunswick area.
For much of its history, the Times-Union was owned by the then St. Augustine-based Florida East Coast Railway along with the St. Augustine Record. Under this ownership, the paper was notorious for relegating news of any railroad mishap to its back pages while giving front page coverage to trucking accidents. In fact, an oft repeated joke around Jacksonville was that "In North Florida, trains don't hit cars. Cars hit trains." In 1959, Florida Publishing Company (its parent company) purchased the evening newspaper the Jacksonville Journal. The...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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