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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Gannett |
| Founder(s) | M. E. Dittmar |
| President | Paula Goudreau [1] |
| Editor | Jenny Espino [2] |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | |
| OCLC number | 20396150 |
| Website | redding |
The Redding Record Searchlight is a newspaper serving Redding, California. It has a daily print circulation of under 15,000 and has between 100,000 and 400,000 unique visitors per month to its news website, Redding.com. [3]
In December 1894, A. R. Bowen & Co. published the first issue of The Searchlight in Redding. At that time the morning newspaper was affiliated with the People's Party. [4] It's founder was M. E. Dittmar who owned the paper for five years. [5]
In October 1899, the paper was purchased by Mel G. Johnson and J. W. Brackett. [6] In 1905, Johnson sold his half-interest in The Searchlight to his business partner Brackett. [7] In 1909, Brackett retired and sold the paper to Herbert Lyle Moody, [8] [9] who ran the paper for over a decade until selling it in 1925 to his son Herbert G. Moody. [10] At that time the Shasta Sun, owned by the younger Moody and founded 18 months prior, was absorbed into The Searchlight. [11] [12] In 1936, he sold the paper to Walter H. Fink, owner of the Courier-Free Press. [13]
On October 17, 1938, the John P. Scripps Newspaper Group published the first edition of the afternoon newspaper Redding Record. [14] [15] In April 1941, Scripps bought The Searchlight and Courier-Free Press from Fink and consolidated the three papers together to form the Redding Record Searchlight. [16]
In 2014, Scripps purchased Journal Media Group and transferred ownership of the Record Searchlight to the company. [17] It then sold the newspaper group in April 2016 to Gannett and the Record Searchlight became part of the USA Today network. [18] In May 2024, the newspaper announced it will switch from carrier to postal delivery. [19]
