Times-Standard

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Times-Standard
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Digital First Media [1]
Founder(s)Edwin D. Coleman
PublisherJohn Richmond [2]
EditorRuth Schneider [3]
Founded1854
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters930 6th Street
Eureka, California 95501 Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Circulation 13,556(as of 2016) [4]
OCLC number 27389437
Website times-standard.com

The Times-Standard is a local daily newspaper covering the far North Coast of California. Headquartered in Eureka, the paper covers all of Humboldt County while providing partial coverage of neighboring Del Norte, Mendocino, and Trinity counties. The newspaper is one of the oldest continuously published papers in all of California.

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The Times-Standard is owned by Digital First Media which is controlled by Alden Global Capital. [1] [5]

History

On Sept. 2, 1854, Dr. Edwin D. Coleman printed the first issue of the Humboldt Times. [6] [7] The weekly newspaper began publishing in what is known today as Old Town Eureka. [8] Coleman failed to receive the letters "u" and "v" in a type font set he ordered from a merchant, so he replaced them with "w"s and similar letters in the first edition. He also lost a bundle of San Francisco advertisements and was unable to publish them. [9] After several markets folded in Eureka and the city failed to become the county seat, Coleman moved the paper on Dec. 16, 1854 to Union, now called Arcata. [9] On Dec. 22, 1855, Coleman sold the business to Walter Van Dyke and Austin Wiley. Van Dyke served as editor until Jan. 23, 1858, when he transferred his shares to Wiley and returned to working as an attorney. [10] Wiley moved the Times back to Eureka on Aug. 28, 1858 and sold the paper to Van Dyke and L.M. Burton on Jul 14, 1860. Burton quickly withdrew and was replaced by S.G. Whipple, who became the sole owner on March 30, 1861. [10]

Another daily newspaper, the Humboldt Standard, began publishing in 1875. [8]

On May 1, 1941, Donald O'Kane, who owned the Standard, and John H. Crothers, who owned the Times, merged their businesses together as a means to reduce cost. Both papers shared a printing plant but kept separate newsrooms and editorial policies. [11] [12] Crothers sold out to O'Kane in September 1946. [13]

In April 1966, O'Kane sold the Times and Standard to Brush-Moore Newspapers. [14] [15] The papers were later merged and the name was changed to The Times-Standard on June 1, 1967. [16] A month later the company was bought for $72 million by Thomson Newspapers. [17] At the time it was believed to have been the biggest newspaper sale in U.S. history and the Justice Department filed an anti-trust lawsuit to stop the sale but later dropped it. [18]

According to an older version of the newspaper's "about us" section of its web page, moving day came on December 7, 1968. Staff writer Andrew Genzoli later recalled, "There hadn't been so much excitement in the newsroom since Pearl Harbor". [19]

Thomson owned the Times-Standard until 1996 when it was bought by MediaNews Group, [8] who sold it to Digital First Media in June 2016. [1] Digital First Media is owned by Alden Global Capital. [5]

From 2003 to 2008, the Times-Standard was the subject of vigorous competition through the establishment of another daily newspaper, The Eureka Reporter. But, Humboldt County and other areas of the North Coast (reached by local papers), though quite large in geographical terms, is a small population area to feature two daily newspapers. As a result, in late 2008 (after a brief period of reduced publication), The Eureka Reporter announced that it would cease operations. [20]

In 2012, The Times-Standard ceased printing a Monday edition, publishing Monday news exclusively online. [21] In 2020, the newspaper decommissioned its in-house Eureka printing press and began delivering copies to Humboldt County from Chico, California. [22]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Digital First Media swaps ownership interests for northern California papers". Times-Standard. June 1, 2016. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Scott-Goforth, Grant (September 24, 2013). "Times-Standard Announces New Publisher". North Coast Journal . Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Schneider becomes M.E. at Times-Standard". California News Publishers Association . August 25, 2021. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Times-Standard Quarterly Data Report Q4 2016" (PDF). Lost Coast Outpost. Alliance for Audited Media. 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  5. 1 2 Folkenflik, David (May 21, 2021). "'Vulture' Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers". National Public Radio . Archived from the original on May 21, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Humboldt Times". The Sierra Citizen. Downieville, California. September 16, 1854. p. 2.
  7. ↑ Hamm, Lillie E. (1890). "Humboldt County Newspaper Enterprises". History and Business Directory of Humboldt County. Daily Humboldt Standard. pp. 175–181. Archived from the original on November 22, 2004 – via Humboldt State University Library.
  8. 1 2 3 Thompson, Mike (November 18, 2004). "Honoring the 150th Anniversary of the Times-Standard". Congressional Record . 150 (133). Retrieved January 4, 2024.
  9. 1 2 "The Humboldt Times Roamed Until It Found A Home". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. February 8, 1954. p. 75.
  10. 1 2 "Various Times' Owners Described In History". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. February 8, 1954. p. 74.
  11. ↑ "Eureka Papers Merge". Red Bluff Tehama County Daily News. Red Bluff, California. United Press. April 26, 1941. p. 2.
  12. ↑ "From Other Papers | Another Merger Of Newspapers". Porterville Recorder. Porterville, California. June 5, 1941. p. 2.
  13. ↑ "Crothers Sells Eureka Papers". The Independent. Richmond, California. United Press. September 30, 1946. p. 3.
  14. ↑ "Two Dailies In Eureka Purchased By Brush-Moore". Oxnard Press-Courier . Oxnard, California. April 19, 1966. p. 12. Retrieved July 22, 2016– via Google News.
  15. ↑ "Eureka Newspapers Sold To Canton, Ohio, Firm". Enterprise-Record. Chico, California. United Press International. April 20, 1966. p. 15.
  16. ↑ "A New Name for Your Newspaper". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. June 1, 1967. p. 1.
  17. ↑ "Thomson Pays 72 Million For Brush-Moore Papers". The San Bernardino County Sun. San Bernardino, California. United Press International. August 26, 196. p. 13.
  18. ↑ "US Drops Suit Against Sale Of 17 Newspapers". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California. United Press International. December 9, 1967. p. 16.
  19. ↑ "About Us". Times-Standard. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  20. ↑ Greenson, Thadeus (November 6, 2008). "Eureka Reporter to close doors Saturday". Times-Standard. Archived from the original on October 16, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  21. ↑ Tam, Donna (January 8, 2012). "Going digital: Times-Standard to stop printing Monday editions this week". Times-Standard. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  22. ↑ Burns, Ryan (May 20, 2020). "Times-Standard Dismantles Printing Press, Lays Off Production Staff; Papers Now Being Trucked From Chico for Delivery". Lost Coast Outpost. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  23. ↑ Sigmund, Jeff (February 25, 2008). "NAA presents first annual Media Innovation Awards". Newspaper Association of America (Press release). Archived from the original on July 23, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
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