Virgin Islands Daily News

Get news about the Virgin Islands when you want and where you want with The Virgin Islands Daily News e-replica app. The app contains a complete reproduction of the printed newspaper by 3 a.m. each day. It also allows users to look back at recent editions. The Virgin Islands Daily News has been in continuous operation since Aug. 1, 1930. The newspaper has earned dozens of national honors, including the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the highest award in American journalism. The Daily News has won the Associated Press Media Editors’ Public Service Award for journalism excellence eight times, the group’s First Amendment Award twice, its Freedom of Information Award and the organization’s News Reporting Award. The Daily News was founded Aug. 1, 1930, by J. Antonio Jarvis and Ariel Melchior Sr. Melchior became sole owner of the business in 1940 and then sold it to Gannett Co. in 1978. In 1989, after nearly 60 years of operations in downtown Charlotte Amalie, The Daily News moved to a new purpose-built office and printing plant facility about a mile to the east in Sugar Estate. Since 2014, the paper has been independently and locally owned.