Gilroy Dispatch

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Gilroy Dispatch
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)New SV Media (Metro Newspapers) Dan Pulcrano
Founder(s)John N. Hall and Thomas Losey
PublisherDan Pulcrano
EditorErik Chalhoub
Sports editorEmanuel Lee
FoundedSeptember 12, 1868
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters7455 Monterey Rd
Gilroy, California 95020
United States
Sister newspapers Hollister Free Lance , Morgan Hill Times
Website gilroydispatch.com

The Gilroy Dispatch is an American weekly newspaper published in Gilroy, California.

Contents

History

The Gilroy Dispatch traces its lineage to the Gilroy Advocate, which published from September 12, 1868, to April 28, 1949. [1] In 1925, John N. Hall and Thomas Losey started the competing The Advocate, a six-day daily. [2] In 1930, Hall sold his interest in the Dispatch to Lloyd E. Smith, [3] who also bought the Advocate and merged it with the Gilroy Evening Dispatch. Smith published the Dispatch until 1939. [4]

George R. Kane, Patrick H. Peabody and Joseph Hoeteling purchased The Dispatch in 1949 from George W. Werner, its publisher since 1941. Kane's group sold the publication to Jerry Fuchs and Millard Hoyle in March 1972. McClatchy Newspapers Inc. purchased it from Fuchs and Hoyle in August 1978. At the time of the sale it published three days a week and had a reported circulation of 6500. [5]

On February 28, 1997, McClatchy sold the Dispatch, along with the Hollister Free Lance, the Morgan Hill Times and the Amador Ledger, for $6.7 million to Independent Newspapers Ltd. of New Zealand. McClatchy's filing with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission reported a combined daily circulation of approximately 10,150, weekly circulation of 12,800 and $7.5 million in annual revenues for the year preceding the sale. [6] Independent's largest shareholder was Australia-based News Ltd., controlled by billionaire publisher Rupert Murdoch. [7]

The New Zealand group sold the papers in 1998 to Central Valley Publishing Holdings, Inc., an operator of 30 small market papers that was based in Festus, Missouri. [8] Michigan publishers Anthony Allegretti and Steve Staloch gained control of Central Valley's assets in a 2004 private equity-backed management buyout, assembling a group that included community newspapers in San Diego County, Santa Cruz, and California's Central Valley. [9] Staloch and Allegretti left the company in 2013 and controlling shareholder, The Brookside Group of Stamford, CT, put its California newspapers on the market, selling its San Diego group in November. [10] [11]

Return to local ownership

Silicon Valley–based Metro Newspapers, headed by Dan Pulcrano, purchased the Mainstreet's four remaining weeklies, including the Dispatch, in April 2014, marking the first time the Dispatch had been owned by a publisher based in the region in 36 years. [12]

South Valley magazine

The Dispatch and its sister paper, the Morgan Hill Times, launched South Valley magazine on July 15, 2016. The publication is home-delivered with the newspapers and distributed free at locations in the communities. [13] Its logo was drawn by typographer Mark Davis and art directed by Roger Black. [14]

Return to downtown

After decades in a building at the south end of Monterey Street., the Dispatch returned to downtown in August 2016, moving its offices to 64 W 6th St. [15]

Awards

The Gilroy Dispatch won 11 awards over a broad range of news categories, including three first-place awards, in the 2004 annual California Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspapers Contest. [16] It won two first place awards and four second place awards in the 2012 competition. [17]

In 2015, the Dispatch won awards for agricultural reporting and front page design. [18] In 2019, the Dispatch was awarded First Place for General Excellence, the highest honor for California newspapers, by the California News Publishers Association. Dispatch writer Michael Moore won a second-place award for In-Depth Reporting for a 2018 series of stories on the death of Steven Juarez while in police custody. [19] In the 2022 California Journalism Awards, the newspaper earned first place for Editorial Comment for its June 23, 2022 column, “The March Toward Darkness,” about city efforts to reduce public notice requirements for city bids. [20]

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  13. ↑ Pulcrano, Dan (July 15, 2016). "The Magazine of South Valley". South Valley Magazine.
  14. ↑ Davis, Mark (July 15, 2016). "Designer Mark Davis". South Valley Magazine.
  15. ↑ Hernandez-Cattani, Roseann (Aug 26, 2016). "Gilroy Dispatch Returns to Downtown". gilroydispatch.com. Gilroy Dispatch. Retrieved May 25, 2024.
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