| Type | Twice weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Digital First Media |
| Founder(s) | Linn J. Potter |
| Publisher | Mazi Kavoosi |
| Editor | Mike Wolcott |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Headquarters | 400 E. Park Ave. Chico, California |
| City | Paradise, California |
| Country | United States |
| Website | paradisepost |
The Paradise Post is a twice-a-week newspaper in Paradise, California. [1] The newspaper is part of the Digital First Media corporation. It has a circulation of about 7,000, and publishes Wednesday and Saturday.
In September 1945, the Paradise Post was founded by Linn J. Potter as a weekly newspaper. [2] The business opened its own printing plant in March 1946. [3] It soon expanded to a twice weekly. [4] In June 1946 was sold to Charles Haines Comfort, an advertisement salesman and columnist at The Chico Record. [4]
Comfort sold the business in February 1947 to Carl Starkey, the night city editor at the Record. [5] Starkey operated the Post for about two years until selling it in March 1949 so he could enroll in college. The new owner was Charles Utt, of San Francisco. [6] Utt ran the paper until his death and then his widow a year later sold it in March 1965 to Lee Kenworthy and Troy L. Maness, who previously ran The Willits News. [7]
In December 1977, a small investment group headed by Post editor James A. Fallbeck acquired the paper from Maness. [8] It was announced a few months later that Lowell Blankfort and Rebele Rowland, owners of the Chula Vista Star-News, were also part of the new ownership group. [9] In 2003, Blankfort and Rowland sold the Post to MediaNews Group. At that time the paper had a circulation of 8,000. [10]