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The Monterey County Herald
Circulation
23,862 Daily
58,001 Sunday (as of March 2013)[1]
Websitemontereyherald.com

The Monterey County Herald, sometimes referred to as the Monterey Herald, is a daily newspaper published in Monterey, California that serves Monterey County.

In December, 2013, the Herald's parent company

Media News Group merged to become Digital First Media.[2] 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.[3]

History

The Monterey County Herald, with offices in downtown Monterey, California, was produced at Ryan Ranch on the Monterey Peninsula from 1990 to 2014. It previously appeared as The Monterey Peninsula Herald, with editorial offices on Pacific Street in Monterey, California.

The newspaper was founded and long published by Colonel Allen Griffin, and its long-time editor-in-chief was Edward Kennedy. 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.[4] A small monument in Monterey memorializes him for having given the world an extra day of peace.[5] [6] In 1967, the newspaper was bought by Block Communications.

In 1992 the paper was acquired by the

Boulder Daily Camera.[7]

Knight Ridder was later purchased by the

McClatchy Company
in June 2006 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 .

On April 26, 2006, it was announced that MediaNews Group, headed by

San Jose Mercury News
, for $1 billion.

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.[8]

In 2013, the Santa Cruz Sentinel joined the same community newspaper division for Digital First Media as the Monterey Herald. The two newspapers now share a common publisher, advertising director and circulation director.

In August 2014, The Monterey Herald moved from its 24-year location in Ryan Ranch to a renovated headquarters on Garden Road in Monterey.

See also

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. ^ "MediaNews Group and 21st Century Media Transaction Has Been Finalized". Digital First Media. December 30, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  3. The Monterey Herald
    . February 7, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  4. ^ Guardian (4 May 2012). "AP apologises for firing journalist who mentioned the end of the war". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Talk to the Editors". heraldeditors.blogspot.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  6. ^ Howe, Kevin (May 4, 2012). "An apology - 67 years later". The Monterey Herald. Archived from the original on May 7, 2014.
  7. ISBN 1610752325
    .
  8. ^ 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.

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