Claremont Courier

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Claremont Courier
Claremont Courier logo.svg
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Founder(s)E.B. Young
PublisherPeter Weinberger [1]
EditorMick Rhodes [1]
Founded1908
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters114 Olive Street
Claremont, CA 91711 [1]
Circulation 35,600(as of 2022) [2]
Website claremont-courier.com

The Claremont Courier is a community newspaper based in Claremont, California, United States. [3] [4] It is widely regarded as the city's newspaper of record, [5] and is often cited by other news outlets covering the city. [6] It publishes an annual almanac and is known for its aerial videography. Additionally, it is one of the oldest newspapers actively being published in the Greater Los Angeles area.

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History

On September 16, 1908, E.B. Young published the first edition of the Claremont Courier. [5] Young operated a print shop in town and was the nephew of the deceased editor of The Daily Iowa Capitol in Iowa. [7] He sold the paper in 1911 to William D. Bell of Phoenix, Arizona. [8]

Bell edited the Courier for a decade. In 1922, he sold it to his son D.T. Bell in order to devote more time to his hardware store. After six months, the paper was purchased by Tobias Larson. [9] C.V. Hickman was a co-owner for 18 months. [10] Larson went on to serve as president of the California Newspaper Publishers Association and expanded the paper's size in 1929. At that time George W. Savage was editor. [11] Larson died in 1936. [12]

The Courier was then passed down to his widow, sister and two sons including Stanley Larson, [5] who published it until 1955. At that time he sold it to Martin J. Weinberger in 1955. [13] [14] [15] In 2007, the paper was transferred to his son, Peter Weinberger. [16] [17] [5] In 2018, the Courier was named the top community newspaper in California by the California News Publishers Association. [18] [19] In 2021, the paper received 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. [20]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Contact Us". Claremont Courier. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ Weinberger, Peter (November 19, 2022). "Courier continues to evolve in transformative year". Claremont Courier. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  3. ↑ Wright, Judy (1980). Claremont: A Pictorial History. Claremont, California: Claremont Historic Resources Center. pp. 115–116. ISBN   978-0967531656 . Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  4. ↑ "'Courier' Makes All-American Weekly 'Eleven'". Los Angeles Times . March 25, 1933. p. 4. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Claremont Heritage on Instagram". Instagram. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  6. ↑ ""Claremont Courier"". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ "The Claremont Courier". Chino Champion. September 25, 1908. p. 1.
  8. ↑ "Claremont Items". Pomona Morning Times. February 1, 1911. p. 4.
  9. ↑ "D.T. Bell Sells Claremont Paper". Progress-Bulletin. Pomona, California. April 15, 1922. p. 2.
  10. ↑ "Editor To Stay In College". Progress-Bulletin. Ponoma, California. January 10, 1924. p. 6.
  11. ↑ "Claremont Newspaper Will Have New Home". The Los Angeles Times. July 6, 1929. p. 5.
  12. ↑ "Tobias Larson, Claremont Editor, Fatally Stricken". Progress-Bulletin. Ponoma, California. June 1, 1936. p. 5.
  13. ↑ "Stanley Larson Sells Clarmemont Courier". Progress-Bulletin. Ponoma, California. March 10, 1955. p. 28.
  14. ↑ "Former owner of Courier dies". Inland Valley Daily Bulletin . July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  15. ↑ Priyambodo, Nila (July 1, 2005). "The Man Behind the Courier". La Verne Magazine. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  16. ↑ Torribio, Sarah (August 11, 2016). "Claremont history through the eyes of COURIER publisher Martin Weinberger". Claremont Courier. Archived from the original on August 30, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Stanley Larson; Ex-Newspaper Publisher". Los Angeles Times . June 21, 1989. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  18. ↑ Weinberger, Peter (April 20, 2018). "COURIER honored as state's top newspaper". Claremont Courier. Archived from the original on August 17, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  19. ↑ "2017 California Journalism Awards winners". California News Publishers Association. Archived from the original on June 26, 2018. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  20. ↑ Weinberger, Peter (August 20, 2021). "Next steps for Courier's nonprofit newsroom". Claremont Courier. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
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