| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Independent |
| Publisher | Bruce Anderson |
| Editor | Bruce Anderson |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Headquarters | Boonville, CA 95415 United States |
| Website | theava |
The Anderson Valley Advertiser is a digital newspaper covering Mendocino County. From the 1950s until 2024, it published a small weekly paper in the broadsheet format. [1]
The Anderson Valley Advertiser was founded in 1955 as a local, community-based paper in Boonville, in Mendocino County. [2] Bruce Anderson purchased the paper in December 1983. [3]
He left the AVA, as the paper is known, in 2004 for Oregon where he tried to start another weekly. It failed and Anderson bought the AVA back in July 2007. The paper enjoys a modest national circulation. Anderson describes himself as "a socialist with strong, nay overwhelming, anarchist instincts." [4] Until 2024, the paper was published in Anderson Valley, California. It is now online only. It features left-wing opinion wrapped around local sports, school board reports, profiles of local characters, and detailed stories on local controversies.
The old masthead in the print version billed the paper as "America's last newspaper." [1] It featured mottoes borrowed from the French Revolution and the Industrial Workers of the World:
Various quotations are distributed throughout every issue of the paper. Examples include:
Contributors include: