 The Fort Pierce-based St. Lucie News Tribune dates its origins to 1903 as the result of a 1920 merger of two weekly newspapers (the "Fort Pierce News" and "St. Lucie County Tribune").It switched to daily publication in 1926 and had been owned by Freedom Communications since 1969.In 2000, Scripps traded two northwest Florida newspapers, "The Destin Log" (founded 1974, acquired by Scripps in 1984) and "The Walton County Log" (founded by Scripps in 1992), to Freedom for the "News Tribune".