North Bay Bohemian

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North Bay Bohemian
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The front page of the October 17, 2007 edition of the North Bay Bohemian
Type Alternative weekly
Format Tabloid  : Compact (newspaper)
Owner(s) Weeklys
PublisherRosemary Olson
President Dan Pulcrano
EditorDaedalus Howell
Founded1979
Headquarters445 Center St Ste 4
Healdsburg, California 95448
United States
Circulation 29,925 [1]
Sister newspapers Pacific Sun, Healdsburg Tribune, Good Times Santa Cruz, Metro Silicon Valley, East Bay Express
ISSN 1532-0154
Website Bohemian.com

The North Bay Bohemian is a weekly newspaper published in the North Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The newspaper is distributed in Sonoma and Napa counties.

Contents

The newspaper began publication in 1979 as The Paper in the Guerneville area of western Sonoma County [2] by artist turned community journalist Nick Valentine and jazz pianist Bob Lucas. [3] Elizabeth Poole bought the struggling publication with family money shortly after its 1979 debut and owned it until its 1990 purchase by John Boland and James Carroll. [3] [4]

The Paper was renamed the Sonoma County Independent in 1993 and published every other week under Boland and Carroll, who moved its offices to Santa Rosa. In 1994 the Independent was purchased by Weeklys, an independent group of three Bay Area alternative weeklies, and the publication frequency was changed to weekly.

In 2000, the newspaper was rebranded as the North Bay Bohemian and the circulation area was expanded to Marin and Napa counties. [5] In 2015, Weeklys acquired the Pacific Sun, which covered Marin County, and the Bohemian withdrew from Marin County. [6]

In September 2018, Stett Holbrook resigned as the publication's editor-in-chief. [7] In fall of 2019, longtime contributor Daedalus Howell became the editor.

The Bohemian's logo was originally designed by graphic designer Martin Venezky and later refined by typographer Jim Parkinson. It was based on the 19th Century wedge serif typeface Saracen as redrawn by Jonathan Hoefler. [8]

Awards

The Bohemian has won numerous awards for its work.

Charity Case

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1999 Lincoln Steffens Award for investigative journalism for coverage of deaths of inmates at the Sonoma County Jail