The city's first newspaper was founded in 1924 as the Pompano News by I. B. Hilson. The paper was published in a building that was later to become the main post office and Masonic Lodge (still standing, although greatly altered, at 100 SW 1st Avenue).

During the early 1930s, Mr. Hilson sold the newspaper to a firm located in Hollywood, but the paper continued publishing until it finally folded in 1937.