The Mendocino Voice

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The Mendocino Voice
TypeIndependent daily online newspaper
Founder(s)Adrian Fernandez Baumann
Kate Maxwell
Founded2016;8 years ago (2016)
Headquarters Willits, California, United States
Website mendovoice.com

The Mendocino Voice is an independent daily online newspaper based in and covering Mendocino County, in Northern California. [1] [2]

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History

The Mendocino Voice was founded in September 2016 [3] by two former employees of The Willits News, [4] a legacy newspaper based in the town of Willits, California, and a property of Digital First Media (DFM). The founders, Adrian Fernandez Baumann [5] and Kate Maxwell, have cited a lack of local news stemming from the acquisition of small northern California newspapers by DFM and its control by Alden Global Capital, as reasons for starting a new local news service. [6] [1] [2]

In the late 2010s The Mendocino Voice became among the most read in Mendocino County, and was cited by The Sacramento Bee , [7] The New York Times [8] [9] and the Los Angeles Times , [10] and featured on the BBC and KQED. [11] In 2019, The Mendocino Voice was selected, jointly with KZYX, to host a Report for America fellow. [12]

The news service is part of a trend in the 2010s [13] towards small, wholly online news services, that have abandoned print publication. [14] As with many such publications it is a member of the Local Independent Online News Publishers group. [15] [16] [17] [18]

Content

The Mendocino Voice is known for its breaking news coverage,[ citation needed ] coverage of local issues and of the Northern California cannabis industry. [19] [20] [21] [22] Also of note was its intensive coverage of the Wine Country Fires, [1] and the Mendocino Complex Fire. [23] [24] [25]

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