Gulf Enterprises bought the newspaper in 1966, installing Lowell P. Hunt as publisher.

[2] In 2010, the paper switched to a tabloid format and reduced its output to three days a week (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday).

In 2014, ACM sold its Texas and Oklahoma newspapers to New Media Investment Group.

[4] Echo reporter Caro Brown won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time in 1955 for coverage of the "one-man political rule" of George Berham Parr in neighboring Duval County.

The Pulitzer judges praised her story, "written under unusual pressure both of edition time and difficult, even dangerous, circumstances.