| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | H. C. Morrill |
| Publisher | Alan Moskal |
| Editor | Gary Kohatsu |
| Founded | 1904 (as the Gardena Reporter) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 15005 S. Vermont Ave., Gardena, CA 90247 |
| ISSN | 1930-9252 |
| OCLC number | 40197246 |
| Website | gardenavalleynews |
The Gardena Valley News is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. It serves the Gardena, California area, and has an estimated circulation of 10,000. [1]
In December 1905, the Gardena Reporter was founded by H. C. Morrill. [2] It was a four-page paper which billed itself as an independent, [3] with editor Morrill taking positions against the Republican party of which he was an officer. [4] Morrill sold the Reporter to George G. Burns in February 1909 after his wife grew ill. [5] Following Burns were several other owners including a Compton banker and Charlie Turner. [6]
In 1914, Anthone H. Knutson succeeded K.T. Hubbell as editor. [7] Bert Perrin bought the Reporter in 1924 and changed its name to the Gardena Valley News. [6] He sold it in 1928 to Lew Guild and L.E. Gingery, two printing instructors at Gardena High School. [6] Lew threw his support into the fight for the incorporation of Gardena, which was successful. [8] In 1938, Guild expanded the paper by purchasing a semi-rotary Goss Comet press. [6]
In 1946, Guild sold the paper to Amos H. Dow, a former Nevada publisher. [9] [10] Dow, a veteran, had been in poor health since being gassed in World War I. [11] He died six weeks after the sale. His widow Agnes E. Dow then took ownership of the News, and acted as its publisher, editor and reporter. [12] Around that time her brother George Donald Aglie joined her at the paper. [13] In 1957, Mrs. Dow, who by then had remarried to Donavin Miller, sold the News to William J. Hunt, who previously worked as the advertising director at the Anchorage Daily News . Don Aglie remained on as co-publisher. [14]
In 1965,Algie and Hunt bought the Gardena Tribune from Gerald T. Deal and Walter Hicks and merged it into their paper. [15] The Tribune's archive was then donated to the Gardena Library. [16] Hunt died in the 1970s. [6] Agile was inducted into the Gardena Wall of Fame in 1997. [17] The Valley News was acquired by brothers Edward and Daniel Verdugo in August 2005. [6] Agile died in 2008. [17] The GVN at some point became part of CommunityMedia Corp., which owned about 20 community weeklies,. The paper launched a website in 2013. [6]