“P” is for Post and Courier

“P” is for Post and Courier. Published in Charleston, the Post and Courier is the oldest daily newspaper in South Carolina. The publication’s lineage can be traced through three newspapers. The oldest, the Charleston Courier, began publication in 1803. The Charleston Daily News began in 1865. The owners of the Daily News purchased the Courier, and the first issue of the News and Courier was published in 1873. The third newspaper in the Post and Courier's lineage, the Evening Post was founded in 1894. That newspaper was purchased by News and Courier in 1926. The Evening Post and News and Courier continued to publish separately through most of the twentieth century. In the 1980s the two newspapers did combine their staff. The newspapers formally merged on October 1st, 1991, as the Post and Courier, a morning newspaper