El Sol de Salinas

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El Sol de Salinas
TypeTwice-weekly
Owner(s) Gannett
EditorSilas Lyon
Founded1968;56 years ago (1968)
LanguageSpanish
Headquarters123 W Alisal St, Salinas, CA Monterey County United States
Circulation 13,000
Website elsoldesalinas.com

El Sol de Salinas is a paper focusing on news and information for Hispanic communities in the Monterey County, California area. [1] It is printed twice weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays. [2] It has a circulation of 13,000 copies. [1]

It is edited by Silas Lyon. [3]

History

El Sol de Salinas publishing on November 13, 1968, and it considered to be the oldest and largest Spanish weekly newspaper on California's central coast. [2] The paper is produced by The Salinas Californian, and both papers are owned by the Gannett Company, which also owns the USA Today Network. [4]

El Sol's parent company, Gannett, has been criticized for publishing content in local papers that was not relevant to those local communities, as a result of managing too many papers under one editorial structure. [5] Much of El Sol's content is translated content from its parent newspaper, The Salinas Californian, rather than original content for the local Spanish-speaking communities. [6]

El Sol is the paper of record for Spanish-language public notices from Monterey County, including Monterey's Treasurer-Tax Collector. [7]

Valentin Mendoza, who had worked as editor of El Sol for many years, left in 2015. [8]

In 2017, Silas Lyon was named Executive Editor over the north central team of California papers, which includes El Sol. [9] Lyon's hiring, and the firing of previous editor Pete Wevurski, was part of a financial restructuring across the Gannett Company and included a number of other layoffs. [3]

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