Times-Standard

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Times-Standard
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
OwnerTemplate:Pluralize from textDigital First Media[1]
FounderTemplate:Pluralize from textEdwin D. Coleman
PublisherJohn Richmond[2]
EditorRuth Schneider[3]
Founded1854
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters930 6th Street
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Circulation13,556 (as of 2016)[4]
OCLC number27389437
Websitetimes-standard.com

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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.

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

History

Humboldt Times

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.[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 Stephen Girard Whipple, who became the sole owner on March 30, 1861.[10] He retired a year later and sold the paper to Wiley and Walter Boball,[11] followed in 1864 by J.E. Wyman, Esq.[12] After his death in 1880, his son W.H. Wyman managed the Times for a few years[13] until it merged with another paper and briefly became the Times-Telephone, run by Wiley and Mr. Henry.[14] In 1886, a corporation who placed Whipple in charge. At that time the paper had a circulation of 1,250.[15] In 1892, Whipple sold the Times to E.N. Borg.[16]

In November 1931, a fire destroyed the paper's office and caused $200,000 worth of damage. At that time the owners were Ralph W. Bull. and John H. Crothers.[17]

Humboldt Standard

In 1875, R.V. Chadd, former owner of the Sutter Creek Independent, founded the Humboldt Standard in Eureka.[8][18][19] The paper ceased after less than two years and was relaunched in 1877 by William Ayres who renamed it to the Democratic Standard. In 1883, R.L. Thompson bought the paper and placed his brother F.P. Thompson in charge. It was then renamed back to the Humboldt Standard. J.F. Thompson purchased a half-interest in 1888 and. A year later became the sole owner. At that time the circulation was 840.[15]

In 1916, F.W. Georgeson became the paper's editor. He had been a part owner for several years prior and also had severed as president of the Humboldt County Bank and mayor of Eureka.[20] In April 1931, Georgeson sold the paper to Clarence L. Day for $200,000. The Georgeson family had published the paper for the past four decades.[21] In 1934, an unknown assailantfire two bullets through the a window at the paper's office in an attempt to kill managing editor Donald O'Kane.[22][23] In 1935, Day died of a sudden heart attack and ownership of the paper was passed to his widow.[24]

Times-Standard

On May 1, 1941, Donald O'Kane, who owned the Humboldt Standard, and John H. Crothers, who owned the Humboldt Times, merged their businesses together as a means to reduce cost. Both papers shared a printing plant but kept separate newsrooms and editorial policies.[25][26] Crothers sold out to O'Kane in September 1946.[27]

In April 1966, O'Kane sold the Times and Standard to Brush-Moore Newspapers.[28][29] The papers were later merged and the name was changed to The Times-Standard on June 1, 1967.[30] A month later the company was bought for $72 million by Thomson Newspapers.[31] 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.[32]

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".[33]

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.[34]

In 2012, The Times-Standard ceased printing a Monday edition, publishing Monday news exclusively online.[35] In 2020, the newspaper decommissioned its in-house Eureka printing press and began delivering copies to Humboldt County from Chico, California.[36]

Awards

References

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  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scott-Goforth, Grant (September 24, 2013). "Times-Standard Announces New Publisher". North Coast Journal. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Schneider becomes M.E. at Times-Standard". California News Publishers Association. August 25, 2021. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Times-Standard Quarterly Data Report Q4 2016" (PDF). Lost Coast Outpost. Alliance for Audited Media. 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Folkenflik, David (May 21, 2021). "'Vulture' Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers". National Public Radio. Retrieved December 1, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Humboldt Times". The Sierra Citizen. Downieville, California. September 16, 1854. p. 2.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Thompson, Mike (November 18, 2004). "Honoring the 150th Anniversary of the Times-Standard". Congressional Record. 150 (133). Retrieved January 4, 2024.
  9. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Humboldt Times Roamed Until It Found A Home". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. February 8, 1954. p. 75.
  10. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Various Times' Owners Described In History". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. February 8, 1954. p. 74.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Newspaper Change". Trinity Journal. Weaverville, California. August 23, 1862. p. 2.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Newspaper Change". Trinity Journal. Weaverville, California. May 21, 1864. p. 2.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."W.H. Wyman's Sad Death". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. February 13, 1934. p. 1.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Times-Telephone". Ferndale Enterprise. Ferndale, California. January 5, 1883. p. 3.
  15. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."In Humboldt County. Eureka's Three Papers Leave the Citizens Little to Desire in the Way of News". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. October 20, 1889. p. 33.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Notice". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. January 11, 1892. p. 3.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fire Destroys Eureka Paper". The Times. San Mateo, California. November 10, 1931. p. 1.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Notice". he Solano-Napa News Chronicle. April 13, 1875.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Pacific Coast Items". Appeal-Democrat. Marysville, California. April 17, 1875. p. 3.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."F.W. Georgeson". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. October 16, 1916. p. 1.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Humboldt Standard Is Sold to C.L. Day". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. April 19, 1931. p. 22.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Attempt Made To Kill Editor". The Searchlight. Redding, California. Associated Press. February 13, 1934. p. 1.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Two Shots Fired At Managing Editor Of Humboldt Standard". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. February 13, 1934. p. 1.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."C.L. Day Dies At Eureka Of Heart Attack". Porterville Recorder. Porterville, California. July 3, 1935. p. 1.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eureka Papers Merge". Red Bluff Tehama County Daily News. Red Bluff, California. United Press. April 26, 1941. p. 2.
  26. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."From Other Papers | Another Merger Of Newspapers". Porterville Recorder. Porterville, California. June 5, 1941. p. 2.
  27. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Crothers Sells Eureka Papers". The Independent. Richmond, California. United Press. September 30, 1946. p. 3.
  28. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."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.
  29. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eureka Newspapers Sold To Canton, Ohio, Firm". Enterprise-Record. Chico, California. United Press International. April 20, 1966. p. 15.
  30. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A New Name for Your Newspaper". The Times Standard. Eureka, California. June 1, 1967. p. 1.
  31. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Thomson Pays 72 Million For Brush-Moore Papers". The San Bernardino County Sun. San Bernardino, California. United Press International. August 26, 196. p. 13.
  32. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."US Drops Suit Against Sale Of 17 Newspapers". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California. United Press International. December 9, 1967. p. 16.
  33. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About Us". Times-Standard. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  34. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  35. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tam, Donna (January 8, 2012). "Going digital: Times-Standard to stop printing Monday editions this week". Times-Standard. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  36. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  37. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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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