Pasadena Star-News

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Pasadena Star-News
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Digital First Media
Founder(s)H.J. Vail
PublisherRon Hasse
EditorFrank Pine
Sports editorFred Robledo
Photo editorKeith Birmingham
Founded1886
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters2 N. Lake Ave. Suite 150
Pasadena, California 91101
Sister newspapers Los Angeles Daily News
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Whittier Daily News
Website pasadenastarnews.com

The Pasadena Star-News is a local daily newspaper for the greater Pasadena, California area. The Pasadena Star-News has been a member of the Southern California News Group [1] (formerly the Los Angeles Newspaper Group) since 1996. It is also part of the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, along with the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and the Whittier Daily News . It is a paid newspaper with free online content.

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History

In April 1886, H.J. Vail published the first issue of the Pasadena Star. [2] In 1889, the Star absorbed the Union. [3] In 1890, a stock company headed by George F. Kernaghan bought the Star. [4] In 1891, Charles A. Gardner bought out Kernaghan and became editor and publisher. [5] [6] In 1900, J.P. Baumgartner sold his interests in the Riverside Press and bought the Star and installed. [7] [6] He then Lyman M. King as editor. [8]

In November 1904, Charles H. Prisk purchased the Pasadena Daily Star and installed Ernest H. Haack as editor. [9] In December 1910, Prisk became co-owner of the Long Beach Press. [10] On March 1, 1916, the Star merged with the PasadenaDaily News (founded in 1894) to form the Pasadena Star-News. [11] For a time, William Paddock, Prisk's son-in-law who married his daughter Neva Prisk Malaby, was the vice president and general manager of the business. [12] In 1932, the Star bought and absorbed the Pasadena Post. [13] In March 1940, Prisk died and was succeed by his brother William F. Prisk as the paper's publisher. [14] In 1956, Ridder Publications Inc. bought the Star-News and Independent from W.F. Prisk, E.D. Bates and Fred Runyon. Bernard J. Ridder took over as publisher. [15]

In 1974, Ridder merged with Knight Newspapers Inc. to form Knight Ridder. [16] In 1989, the Star-News and subsidiary Foothill Intercity Newspapers were sold for $55 million to MediaNews Group, a company owned by William Dean Singleton. At that time the paper had a 39,000 daily circulation. [17] A year later Thomson Corporation, which owned the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, bought a majority stake in the Star-News while Singleton retained a minority interest. [18] In 1996, Thomson sold the Star-News, Tribune, and Whittier Daily News to MediaNews Group. [19] The three papers went on to become part of the subsidiary Los Angeles Newspaper Group. [20]

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Tournament of Roses New Year's Number 1917

Rose Magazine

The newspaper publishes the Rose Magazine, which has provided coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl Game since 1994. [21]

Office

First published in 1884, the paper was originally located at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Oakland Avenue for years. That building is now home to Technique at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts and 24 Hour Fitness. [12] The first radio broadcast of the Rose Parade in 1926 aired from the newspaper's radio station KPSN, which broadcast out of a pair of radio towers that the building once hosted. [12]

See also

Awards

References

  1. Hagen, Ryan. "What is Digital First Media and the Southern California News Group who just purchased the Orange County Register?". San Bernardino Sun . Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  2. "Notice". The Ontario Record. April 28, 1886. p. 2.
  3. "Newspapers And Men". Los Angeles Tribune. September 8, 1889. p. 4.
  4. "Notice". The Citrograph. April 19, 1890. p. 2.
  5. "Notice". The Daily Journal. Los Angeles, California. May 21, 1891. p. 1.
  6. 1 2 "Home-Owned Journals Evolved Through Years of Different Publishers". Pasadena Star-News. June 15, 1936. p. 25.
  7. "Notice". The Weekly Sun. San Bernardino, California. March 30, 1900. p. 4.
  8. "Local Happenings". Napa Journal. March 31, 1900. p. 3.
  9. "C.H. Prisk Buys Pasadena Star". The Union. Grass Valley, California. November 18, 1904. p. 3.
  10. "Formal Sale Made Today | Long Beach Press Changes Owners". The Long Beach Telegram and The Long Beach Daily News. December 28, 1910. p. 7.
  11. "Pasadena Newspapers Will Be Merged March 1st". Pasadena Star-News. February 22, 1916. p. 1.
  12. 1 2 3 "Pasadena Star-News Information and History". Pasadena Star News. September 15, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  13. "Pasadena Post And Long Beach Sun Sold Today". Colusa Sun-Herald. United Press. February 27, 1932. p. 1.
  14. "Charles H. Prisk, Publisher, Mourned". Pasadena Star-News. March 4, 1940. p. 1.
  15. "Ridder Buys Both Papers in Pasadena". Los Angeles Times . March 26, 1956. p. 15. Retrieved June 2, 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Shareholders Okay Knight-Ridder Merger". The Star-Tribune. Duarte, California. November 24, 1974. p. 8.
  17. White, George (April 20, 1989). "Singleton to Pay $55 Million for the Pasadena Star-News". Los Angeles Times . p. 87. ProQuest   1149860130.
  18. Hudson, Berkley (August 22, 1990). "Pasadena Star-News Sold to Unit of Canadian Chain". Los Angeles Times . p. 128. Retrieved October 9, 2025.
  19. "San Gabriel Valley Papers Lay Off 31 People". Los Angeles Times . October 31, 1996. p. 150.
  20. Roberts, Gene; Kunkel, Thomas; Layton, Charles, eds. (2001). Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering . Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN   1610752325.
  21. "About us". Pasadena Star News. October 25, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  22. 1 2 "Pasadena Star-News Information and History". Pasadena Star News. September 15, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  23. Bartholomew, Dana (May 10, 2015). "Pasadena Star News takes home four statewide journalism awards". Pasadena Star News. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  24. "Pasadena Star News". www.facebook.com. Retrieved April 15, 2020.