The Huntsville Times same changes. The company has since made similar changes to what had been daily newspapers in both Syracuse, New York, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The final daily edition was published on September 30, 2012. The next day was the first time in more than a century that the city of Huntsville had been without a daily newspaper. Patrick McCauley, a native of Alexandria, Louisiana, was the longest-serving editor of the daily "Huntsville Times", a post he filled from 1966 to 1994. A previous editor, Reese Thomas Amis (1888–1964), had mentored McCauley when he was a reporter at "The Times" from 1949
The Illustrated London News Stamp Act that taxed newspapers), it sold 200,000 copies per week. Competitors soon began to appear: "Lloyd’s Illustrated Paper" was founded later that year, while "Reynold's Newspaper" opened in 1850; both were successful Victorian publications, albeit less successful than "The Illustrated London News". Andrew Spottiswoode's "Pictorial Times" lost £20,000 before it was sold to Ingram by Henry Vizetelly, who had left the "ILN" to found it. Ingram folded it into another purchase, "The Lady's Newspaper", which became "The Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times". Vizetelly was also behind a later competitor, "Illustrated Times" in 1855, which was similarly bought out by