The Monterey County Herald

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The Monterey County Herald
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The Monterey County Herald
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Digital First Media
FounderAllen Griffin
EditorDavid Kellogg
Founded1922
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Monterey, California
Circulation 23,862 Daily
58,001 Sunday(as of March 2013) [1]
Sister newspapers Santa Cruz Sentinel
Website montereyherald.com

The Monterey County Herald, sometimes referred to as the Monterey Herald, is a daily newspaper published in Monterey, California that serves Monterey County. It is owned by Media News Group.

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History

In June 1922, The Monterey County Herald was first published. [2] [3] It was founded by Colonel R. Allen Griffin, a highly decorated infantry captain who fought in France during World War II. [4] He bought Monterey Cypress American and consolidated it with his paper, [5] later renamed to the TheMonterey Peninsula Herald. [4] Allen was an alumni of Stanford University who returned to the military during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the ECA China Mission and set up the first United States operation on Formosa after the collapse of Free China. [6]

In 1949, Edward Kennedy was hired as the Herald's editor-in-chief. Kennedy, as an Associated Press correspondent, had won celebrity, and considerable criticism, in the closing days of World War II by announcing Germany's surrender one day before that announcement was supposed to have been made. [7] A small monument in Monterey memorializes him for having given the world an extra day of peace. [8] [9] He died in 1963 after a car hit him [10]

In 1967, the Herald was acquired by Blade Communications, owner of the Toledo Blade. At that time the paper had a circulation of 30,000. [4] Allen retired three years later. [6] In 1992, the paper was acquired by the E.W. Scripps Company in exchange for the Pittsburgh Press , which Blade merged into its own Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . [11] [12] Scripps traded the paper, along with The San Luis Obispo Tribune, to Knight Ridder in 1997, in exchange for the Boulder Daily Camera . [13] [14] Following the deal, Knight Ridder fired all Herald employees and required those who wanted their jobs back to reapply. The paper's union members protested in response. [15] [16]

In 2006, the McClatchy Company purchased Knight Ridder in a deal valued at $4.5 billion. The deal was contingent on McClatchy selling off 12 of the 32 newspapers it had just purchased, including The Monterey County Herald. [17] MediaNews Group , headed by William Dean Singleton, purchased four of the "orphan 12", including the Herald, the Contra Costa Times and San Jose Mercury News , for $1 billion. [17]

In December 2013, MediaNews Group and 21st Century Media merged to create a new company operating under the name of its parent company, Digital First Media. [18] In the year to come, the paper underwent a "reorganization plan" which included a redesign of both the newspaper and website, the move of newspaper production out-of-area, as well as a change in editor. [19]

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Total Circ for US Newspapers". Alliance for Audited Media. March 31, 2013. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Monterey Herald Has Started". Santa Cruz Sentinel. June 16, 1922. p. 2.
  3. ↑ "Monterey Herald Files Incororation Papers". The Californian. Salinas, California. July 21, 1922. p. 8.
  4. 1 2 3 "Monterey Peninsula Paper Sold". San Francisco Chronicle. September 1, 1967. p. 57.
  5. ↑ "Cypress-Ameerican Quits At Monterey". Free Lance. Hollister, California. February 2, 1923. p. 1.
  6. 1 2 "Allen Griffin Retires From Monterey Herald". The Californian. Salinas, California. September 1, 1970. p. 14.
  7. ↑ "AP apologises for firing journalist who mentioned the end of the war". The Guardian. Assoicated Press. May 4, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  8. ↑ Calkins, Royal (April 24, 2009). "Fun and Kooky Facts About The Herald, Past and Present". Talk to the Editors. Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  9. ↑ Howe, Kevin (May 4, 2012). "An apology - 67 years later". The Monterey Herald. Archived from the original on May 7, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Edward Kennedy, 58, Reporter Who Flashed '45 Surrender, Dies". The New York Times. Associated Press. November 30, 1963. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
  11. ↑ Becker, Geof (October 30, 1992). "Scripps would buy Calif. paper from Blade". North Hills News Record. North Hills, Pennsylvania. p. 2.
  12. ↑ Burleson, Marty (January 1, 1993). "New owner takes control of Monterey's Herald". The Californian. Salinas, California. p. 16.
  13. ↑ Lyons, Silas (July 26, 1997). "T-T changing owners in 5-paper deal". The Tribune. San Luis Obispo, California. p. 1.
  14. ↑ Roberts, Gene; Kunkel, Thomas; Layton, Charles, eds. (2001). Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering . Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN   1610752325.
  15. ↑ "Rally protests Monterey Herald firings". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Assoicated Press. August 22, 1997. p. 10.
  16. ↑ "Local Briefs | Herald negotiations set to resume today". The Californian. Salinas, California. September 30, 1997. p. 13.
  17. 1 2 Kasler, Dale (June 27, 2006). "McClatchy launches a new era | Knight Ridder shareholders confirm deal that boosts size, and stakes, for Bee's owner". The Sacramento Bee. p. 1.
  18. ↑ Sederholm, Jillian (December 30, 2013). "MediaNews Group, 21st Century Media merge to become Digital First Media". The Monterey Herald. Archived from the original on May 7, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Santa Cruz Sentinel's Don Miller named Herald Editor | Santa Cruz Sentinel Editor Don Miller replaces Calkins". The Monterey Herald . February 7, 2014. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
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