Marin Independent Journal

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Marin Independent Journal
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TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) MediaNews Group, et al.
PublisherRob Devincenzi
Managing editorJennifer Upshaw Swartz
FoundedMarch 23, 1861
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters4000 Civic Center Dr #301
San Rafael, California
Circulation 8734 Daily
12001 Sunday(as of 2022) [1]
Sister newspapers San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, East Bay Times
ISSN 0891-5164
OCLC number 61313188
Website http://www.marinij.com/

The Marin Independent Journal is the main newspaper of Marin County, California. The paper is owned by California Newspapers Partnership, which is in turn mostly owned by MediaNews Group. [2]

Contents

History

The Independent Journal was formed from the merger of the Marin Journal and the San Rafael Daily Independent in 1948. The weekly Journal, one of the state's oldest newspapers, had been established in 1861 as the Marin County Journal. The Journal was published in San Rafael on Saturdays by Jerome A. Barney. [3] The Independent had been started by Harry Granice in 1900 as the weekly San Rafael Independent, which became a daily by 1903 under the management of his daughter, Celeste Granice Murphy. The merged paper was originally called the San Rafael Independent-Journal. [4] [5]

Gannett acquired the paper from the Brown family in 1980. MediaNews Group acquired the paper from Gannett in 2000. Gannett turned over the newspaper to a partnership headed by Dean Singleton and it is now owned and operated by a company made up of investment bankers.

The "hot-tubber" incident

In 2002, former President George H. W. Bush described "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh as "some misguided Marin County hot-tubber." [6] His comment prompted criticism among readers of the Marin Independent Journal, until Bush sent the paper a letter of apology:

Call off the dogs, please. I surrender...I apologize. I am chastened and will never use 'hot tub' and 'Marin county' in the same sentence again. [6]

Staff

The publisher and president of the Marin Independent Journal is Rob Devincenzi. Previous to this position, Devincenzi was named editor and publisher of several South Bay weekly newspapers. [7]

Awards

The Independent Journal won two first-place awards, three second-place awards and six "honorable mention" awards in the annual California News Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest for 2016.[ citation needed ]

In 2020, the annual California News Publishers Association contest awarded 11 awards to The Independent Journal with a second-place award for general excellence.[ citation needed ]

Of these awards, The Independent Journal won second place in the breaking news category for a report of a mudslide in Sausalito in 2019. It won a third-place award for an editorial by Brad Breithaupt and a news photo by Alan Dep. Dep was also awarded a fourth-place award for feature photography alongside George Russel for editorial illustration [8]

Notes

  1. "Bay Area News Group Market Book" (PDF). Dropbox. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  2. Advertise, Gallup Research - Media Usage 2004 and 2006, DataQuick Information Systems, from Marin Independent Journal website, retrieved 09.23.07
  3. James Munro-Fraser, History of Marin County, California, "History Of San Rafael Township, Part 1," 1880 Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine , accessed June 7, 2008
  4. California Newspaper Publishers Association, Press Association Hall of Fame, "Justus F. Craemer, San Rafael Independent-Journal, Orange Daily News, 1886-1966" [ permanent dead link ], accessed June 6, 2008
  5. California Newspaper Publishers Association, California Press Association Hall of Fame, "Celeste Granice Murphy, The Sonoma Index-Tribune, 1882-1962 " [ permanent dead link ], accessed June 6, 2008
  6. 1 2 "From hot tub to hot water" | World news | guardian.co.uk
  7. "Gale - Institution Finder". galeapps.gale.com. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  8. "2019 California Journalism Awards". cnpa.com. Retrieved 2021-03-24.

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