Daily Pilot

The Daily Pilot is a daily newspaper published by the Los Angeles Times to serve the communities of Sunset Beach, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach in Orange County, California.

Daily Pilot

Type	Daily newspaper
Owner(s)	Los Angeles Times
Founded	1907; 118 years ago (1907)
Language	English
City	Fountain Valley, California
Country	United States
Website	www.dailypilot.com
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The Daily Pilot is one of the publications of Times Community News, which is a subsidiary of the Los Angeles Times.^[1][2]

History

Started in 1907 as a weekly newspaper named the Newport News, the paper was originally purchased by the Times' parent company, Times Mirror, in 1961. Ingersoll Publications bought the paper in 1982. Adams Communications bought the Pilot in 1988, but sold it to a group backed by the New York businessman Elliot Stein the following year. The Glendale News Press was acquired a week later. Times Mirror bought the newspaper chain in 1993. On September 7, 2016, the Huntington Beach Independent and the Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot merged with the Daily Pilot.^[3]