The Mendocino Beacon

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The Mendocino Beacon
Mendocino Beacon Building.jpg
The Mendocino Beacon sign still hangs on the newspaper's original home at 45062 Ukiah St., Mendocino
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) MediaNews Group, Digital First Media
Founder(s)W. H. Meacham
William Heeser
PublisherK.C. Meadows [1]
FoundedOctober 1877 (1877-10)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California
Circulation 2,400 [2]
OCLC number 32989958
Website mendocinobeacon.com

The Mendocino Beacon is a weekly newspaper for the community of Mendocino, California, owned by MediaNews Group. [3]

Contents

From 1975 to 1977 it was published under an alternative name, the Mendocino Coast Beacon. [4]

History

The Mendocino Beacon was founded on October 6, 1877 by W. H. Meacham and William Heeser, [5] [6] [4] [7] an immigrant from Germany who also founded the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and three other local newspapers in Kibesillah, Rockport, and Westport. [8] It succeeded the Star, a local newspaper that had been founded previously by M. J. C. Galvin. [7]

In an 1878 catalog of North American newspapers the Beacon was advertised as "an independent and vigorous weekly journal, published at a point of rising importance as a place of shipping and trade." [9]

Members of the Hesser family publisher the paper for 98 years until selling it in 1975 to the Mendocino Publishing Co., which owned the Ukiah Daily Journal. [10] A year later the company purchased the Fort Bragg Advocate-News. [11]

In 1984, Donrey Media Group acquired the Beacon and two other papers. [12] On Jan. 13, 1999, Donrey merged 10 of its California newspapers, including the Beacon, into Garden State Newspapers, which was owned by MediaNews Group. Donrey owned a third of the joint venture while MediaNews owned the majority stake. [13] In August 2000, the newspaper offices moved from Mendocino to Fort Bragg, ten miles north of Mendocino, and consolidated with the offices of the Fort Bragg Advocate-News. [14]

Recognition

In the 2009 California Newspaper Publishers Association's "Better Newspaper Contest", the Mendocino Beacon won first place in its circulation category for a business/financial story, for a story on Heritage House by Frank Hartzell. [15] It has also won similar awards in previous years. [16] [17] [18] [19]

References

  1. ↑ Mendocino Beacon Contact Us, retrieved 2018-08-29.
  2. ↑ Echo Media Print Experts retrieved 2018-08-29
  3. ↑ Who Owns What, Columbia Journalism Review, retrieved 2010-08-21.
  4. 1 2 "The Mendocino Beacon (Mendocino, Mendocino County, Cal.) 1877-1975". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  5. ↑ Palmer, Lyman L. (1967), History of Mendocino County, California, comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber, Mendocino County Historical Society, pp. 412, 712.
  6. ↑ Rowell, George Presbury (1879), Rowell's American newspaper directory, Printers' Ink Pub. Co., p. 28.
  7. 1 2 Carpenter, Aurelius O.; Millberry, Percy H. (1914), "History of Mendocino and Lake counties, California, with biographical sketches of the leading, men and women of the counties who have been identified with their growth and development from the early days to the present", Historic Record Company, pp. 52, 851.
  8. ↑ A Mendocino immigrant Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine , Kelley House Museum, retrieved 2010-08-21.
  9. ↑ Pettengill's newspaper directory and advertisers' handbook for 1878: comprising a complete list of the newspapers and other periodicals published in the United States and British America, S.M. Pettengill & Co., 1878, p. 189.
  10. ↑ "Mendocino Beacon sold". The Press Democrat. Santa Rosa, California. October 6, 1975. p. 13.
  11. ↑ McLaughlin, J. Stephen (January 21, 1977). "Ukiah Publisher to Buy Second Coast Newspaper". Independent Coast Observer. Gualala, California. p. 1.
  12. ↑ Hart, Steve (June 26, 1984). "Arkansas company buys 3 Mendocino newspapers". The Press Democrat. Santa Rosa, California. p. 8.
  13. ↑ "MediaNews, Donrey merge newspapers". Record Searchlight. Redding, California. Associated Press. January 13, 1999. p. 18.
  14. ↑ Geniella, Mike (August 19, 2000). "Mendocino Beacon era draws to a close: Newspaper office moves to Ft. Bragg". The Press-Democrat . Santa Rosa, California.
  15. ↑ CNPA BNC 2009 winners Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2010-08-21.
  16. ↑ "Local newspapers earn blue ribbons from CNPA", Fort Bragg Advocate-News, July 1, 2004.
  17. ↑ "Beacon recognized with MADD award", Mendocino Beacon, June 10, 2004.
  18. ↑ "Papers bring home awards", Mendocino Beacon, July 20, 2007.
  19. ↑ "Publisher brings home four awards", Mendocino Beacon, October 18, 2007.
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