Daily Breeze

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Daily Breeze
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Digital First Media
Founder(s)S. D. Barkley
PublisherRon Hasse
EditorFrank Pine
Founded1894;131 years ago (1894)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters2615 Pacific Coast Hwy, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 United States
Circulation 57,185 Daily
67,970 Sunday(as of September 2014) [1]
Website dailybreeze.com

The Daily Breeze is a daily newspaper published in Hermosa Beach, California, United States. It serves the South Bay cities of Los Angeles County. Its slogan is "LAX to LA Harbor".

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History

The paper was founded as the weekly The Breeze in 1894 [2] by local political activist S. D. Barkley and first served the local Redondo Beach community. At that time the town had a population of 500 and included a few buildings and Hotel Redondo. [3] Barkley aligned himself with The Wets, a group of four local saloonkeepers who wanted to remain open while The Drys opposed alcohol consumption and fought to close them. In 1910, residents voted against closing them. [3]

Barkley operated the paper for about two decades until selling it around 1913 to George Murphy, who was soon succeeded by Frank L. Perry. [3] The paper changed hands seven times in two years. In 1917, it came under the ownership of George F. Orgibet. [4] Five years later in 1922, Orgibet sold the weekly paper to K.W. Kellogg, who then expanded it into a daily publication. [5] In 1928, Copley Press purchased the Daily Breeze and 14 other paper from Kellogg Newspapers, Inc. [6]

In December 2006, the paper was sold by Copley Press to the Hearst Corporation in a complex transaction that left the paper under the day-to-day control of Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group and its subsidiary, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (LANG). Singleton announced that he would fold the paper into the LANG operations, but not cut salaries. [7] Singleton will eventually come to own the Daily Breeze under a 2007 plan to acquire ownership of the paper as part of a swap with Hearst in which Hearst would trade some California papers and the St. Paul Pioneer Press for an increased stake in Singleton's non-California operations. [8]

In 2008, the paper ceased producing its weekly supplement, More San Pedro. Nine staff members were laid off at the same time including four reporters, a web editor, and a newsroom assistant. [9] In 2015, the Daily Breeze won two major awards for its series of investigative reports, throughout 2014, regarding a financial scandal in the Centinela Valley Union High School District. [10] In March, the paper won a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Community Journalism for the investigation, [11] and in April the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. [12] [13]

The film Pineapple Express and television show Zeke & Luther have filmed at the Daily Breeze's previous headquarters location in Torrance, California. [14]

References

  1. "Total Circ for US Newspapers". Alliance for Audited Media. September 2014. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  2. "At Redondo Beach. | The Happenings Sunday at a Delightful Resort". Los Angeles Evening Express. July 9, 1894. p. 5.
  3. 1 2 3 Gnerre, Sam (September 22, 2017). "Daily Breeze newspaper information and history". Daily Breeze. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
  4. "Mr. Orgibet Buys Redondo Breeze". Hermosa Beach Review. May 18, 1917. p. 1.
  5. "Redondo To Have A Daily Paper". Hermosa Beach Review. December 8, 1922. p. 1.
  6. "Fifteen Newspapers in Southern California Are Transferred to Easterner". The San Bernardino County Sun. Associated Press. February 16, 1928. p. 3.
  7. Adelman, Jacob (December 16, 2006). "Hearst buys paper, won't own it for long". Santa Maria Times. Associated Press. p. 12.
  8. "MediaNews completes sale of equity stake to Hearst Corp". The San Francisco Examiner. Associated Press. October 24, 2007. p. 14.
  9. Roderick, Kevin (February 28, 2008). "Layoffs at Daily Breeze". LA Observed. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved October 29, 2008.
  10. Mullin, Benjamin (April 20, 2015). "Daily Breeze managing editor: 'We are stunned'". Poynter Institute . Archived from the original on April 24, 2015.
  11. Micheli, Carolyn (March 17, 2015). "Scripps Howard Awards Honor Nation's Best 2014 Journalism". Scripps Howard Foundation (Press release). Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  12. "The Pulitzer Prizes - 2015 Pulitzer Winners will be announced April 20". Pulitzer.org. March 5, 2015. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  13. "The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local Reporting | Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA". Pulitzer.org. Pulitzer Prize Board. April 20, 2015. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  14. "Daily Breeze newspaper information and history". Daily Breeze. September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

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