Vallejo Times Herald

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Vallejo Times-Herald
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Digital First Media
Founder(s)T.L. Thompson
J.F. Linthicum
EditorJack Bungart
Founded1872;153 years ago (1872) (as the Vallejo Daily Independent)
Headquarters420 Virginia St., Ste. 2A,
City Vallejo, California
Country United States
Circulation 3,264 Daily
4,278 Sunday(as of 2022) [1]
OCLC number 34107484
Website timesheraldonline.com

The Vallejo Times-Herald is a daily newspaper in Vallejo, California. [2] It is printed six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday.

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History

The first edition of the Vallejo Daily Independent was published on Jan. 6, 1872. [3] It was founded by T.L. Thompson and J.F. Linthicum. [4] Linthicum sold the paper three years later to A.B. Gibson and George Roe, who then changed the name to the Solano Daily Times on Sept. 23, 1875. [5] The paper later became the Vallejo Times. [6]

In 1916, Luther E. Gibson bought a small commercial printing plant in Santa Cruz and brought on high school student Kenneth F. Knight as his apprentice. A year later Gibson enlisted to in the U.S. military to serve during World War I. Knight finished school and started a monthly magazine called Sanda, which covered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. He soon expanded it to a weekly newspaper called The Mare Island Employee. [7]

Struggling to find a printer, he contacted Gibson who had just returned from France and was working at the Watsonville Register. The men formed a partnership with two others and each contributed $500 to purchase a defunct printing plant from Antioch and restart it in Vallejo. [7] On Jan. 4, 1922, the first edition of the Vallejo Herald was published by Gibson, Knight, John "Jerry" Motzko and Leonard King. At that time three other daily papers were published in the city. [8] [9]

In April 1922, the Times merged with the Herald. Times publisher Robert W. Walker was the majority stock owner and Gibson was a minority owner and the paper's business manager. [10] [11] Five years later Gibson bought the Vallejo Chronicle and merged it with Vallejo News to form the News-Chronicle, but the paper eventually ceased. [12] Gibson served as a California state senator from 1948 to 1968 and was simply known by some as "the senator." [12] In November 1973, Gibson sold a half-interest in the paper to the Donrey Media Group and continued to work as the paper's publisher. [13] [14]

On June 20, 1978, five unions representing 88 employees working at the Times-Herald went on strike and picketed the office. [15] Thirty employees from other Donrey papers were brought in to put out the Times-Herald. [16] Some of the striking workers established a rival paper called the Vallejo Independent Press, or TheV.I.P. [17] Wyman Riley served as publisher, [18] and the paper ceased in 1984. [19]

On Jan. 13, 1999, Donrey merged 10 of its California newspapers, including the Times-Herald, into Garden State Newspapers, which was owned by MediaNews Group. Donrey owned a third of the joint venture while MediaNews owned the majority stake. [20]

Miscellaneous

This newspaper was one of three newspapers to receive a letter from the Zodiac Killer on August 1, 1969. [21]

References

  1. ↑ "Bay Area News Group Market Book" (PDF). Dropbox. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  2. ↑ "Times-Herald (Vallejo, Calif.) 1995-Current". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  3. ↑ "Vallejo Daily Independent". The Solano-Napa News Chronicle. Vallejo, California. January 4, 1872. p. 2.
  4. ↑ "Vallejo Independent". Santa Barbara Weekly Press. Santa Barbara, California. April 6, 1872. p. 2.
  5. ↑ "Notice". Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California. September 30, 1875. p. 2.
  6. ↑ "Birth of Paper". Vallejo Times-Herald. Vallejo, California. October 30, 1974. p. 1.
  7. 1 2 "Morning Herald 50 Years Old Today". The Times-Herald. Vallejo, California. January 4, 1972. p. 3.
  8. ↑ "Santa Cruz Boys Interested In Paper". Santa Cruz Evening News. Santa Cruz, California. January 6, 1922. p. 2.
  9. ↑ "Vallejo Now Has Four Daily Papers". Pasadena Star-News. Pasadena, California. January 13, 1922. p. 6.
  10. ↑ "Vallejo Papers Merge | Times and Herald to Be Issued as Morning Publication; Staff Personal Announced". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California. April 21, 1922. p. 7.
  11. ↑ "Vallejo 'Times' and 'Herald' Merge". The River News. Rio Vista, California. April 29, 1922. p. 3.
  12. 1 2 "Obituaries| Luther Gibson, State Senator And Publisher". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California. June 30, 1988. p. 50.
  13. ↑ "Senator Gibson Announces Association Of Donrey Media Group In Publishing Vallejo Times-Herald, News-Chronicle". The Times-Herald. Vallejo, California. November 18, 1973. p. 1.
  14. ↑ "Joint Owners For Vallejo Times Herald". Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California. November 20, 1973. p. 18.
  15. ↑ "Vallejo Times Workers Strike". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Santa Cruz, California. Associated Press. June 21, 1978. p. 10.
  16. ↑ "Vallejo News Strike Continues". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California. June 24, 1978. p. 4.
  17. ↑ "The V.I.P (Vallejo, Calif.) 1978-19??". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  18. ↑ Schermerhorn, James (October 27, 1988). "Obituaries | Wyman Riley: Newspaper Editor". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. p. 22.
  19. ↑ "The Telescope". Independent Coast Observer. Gualala, California. January 30, 1987. p. 10.
  20. ↑ "MediaNews, Donrey merge newspapers". Record Searchlight. Redding, California. Associated Press. January 13, 1999. p. 18.
  21. ↑ "Vallejo Times Letter". ZODIAC CIPHERS. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
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