The Beach Reporter

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The Beach Reporter
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) MediaNews Group
Founder(s)Richard Frank
PublisherSimon Grieve
EditorLisa Jacobs
Founded1977
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters2615 Pacific Coast Highway
Suite 329
Hermosa Beach, California 90254 Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Website tbrnews.com

The Beach Reporter is a weekly newspaper serving the Beach Cities of Los Angeles's South Bay. It primarily focuses on the cities of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and El Segundo. It is published every Thursday, with a circulation of approximately 55,000. It is considered a primary source of local news and events, as well as a guide to local real estate listings, covering some of the most expensive and active areas in California.

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History

In 1977, Richard Frank founded the Beach Reporter. [1] He sold it if or $2.5 million in March 1989 to Baker Communications Inc., owned by Seth H. Baker. The business also owned the Palos Verdes Peninsula News. [1] After the sale, the Reporters expanded it's coverage area and got into direct competition and a legal battle with the Easy Reader. At that time the paper had a circulation of 45,000. [2] Baker filled for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 1995. [3] The Reporter and News were then acquired for $2.7 million by Stephen C. Laxineta’s National Media, Inc. [4]

In 2003, Copley Press, owner of the Daily Breeze, bought both papers. [5] In December 2006, the paper was sold by Copley Press to the Hearst Corporation in a complex transaction that left the paper under the day-to-day control of Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group and its subsidiary, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (LANG). Singleton announced that he would fold the paper into the LANG operations, but not cut salaries. [6] Singleton will eventually come to own the Reporter under a 2007 plan to acquire ownership of the paper as part of a swap with Hearst in which Hearst would trade some California papers and the St. Paul Pioneer Press for an increased stake in Singleton's non-California operations. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 Hubler, Shawn (December 6, 1990). "South Bay Papers' Circulation War Escalates Into Court Battle". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 2, 2024. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  2. ↑ Chapman, Diana L. (December 26, 1990). "Turf was at the surf: Beach papers battle". News-Pilot. San Pedro, California. p. 1.
  3. ↑ Broersma, Dirk (May 22, 1995). "Pressing fiscal woes | unpaid bills, liens force publisher into Chapter 11". News-Pilot. San Pedro, California. p. 3.
  4. ↑ Radcliffe, Jim (September 23, 1995). "Publisher's bid rescues 2 South Bay newspapers". News-Pilot. San Pedro, California. p. 3.
  5. ↑ "3rd Quarter 2003 | Publishers Add Non-Dailies to Build Bigger Clusters". Dirks, Van Essen & April. 2003. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  6. ↑ Adelman, Jacob (December 16, 2006). "Hearst buys paper, won't own it for long". Santa Maria Times. Associated Press. p. 12.
  7. ↑ "MediaNews completes sale of equity stake to Hearst Corp". The San Francisco Examiner. Associated Press. October 24, 2007. p. 14.


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