The Diário dos Açores was founded by Manuel Augusto Tavares de Resende (1849-1892) in 1870, influenced by the publication five years before, in Lisbon of the Diário de Notícias.
[1] To attract subscribers and readers, Tavares de Resende offered gifts and cash through a lottery.
He also set up a network of correspondents throughout the island of São Miguel, the Azores archipelago, and outside the region.
The paper obtained much of its prestige from progressive supporters of local monarchist intelligentsia.
[1] In 1970 Manuel Cabral de Melo wrote a special supplement commemorating the newspaper's centennial.