The ''North County Times'' was a local newspaper in San Diego's North County. It was headquartered in Escondido. The final publisher was Peter York. It was formed in 1995 from the merger of the ''North County Blade-Citizen'' of Oceanside (founded 1929) and the ''

Escondido Times-Advocate The ''Daily Times-Advocate'', also called the ''Escondido Times-Advocate'', was a daily newspaper published in Escondido, California. It was founded in 1909 and ceased publication as a separate title in 1995. History ''The Daily Times-Advocate'' ...

'' (founded 1909) by

Howard Publications Howard Publications was a family-owned company of newspapers in the United States. It owned 16 daily newspapers when it sold to Lee Enterprises for $694 million in 2002. Robert S. Howard founded the company in 1961.York, Tom (2 December 2019)Speci ...

. Beginning in 1997, the Times also published ''The Californian'' in Temecula, located in southwest Riverside County. The newspaper was published with three local editions including ''The Californian''. Lee Enterprises acquired Howard in 2002. From 2008 through 2011, the paper laid off dozens of staff members, including at least a third of its editorial/newsroom staff. Doug Manchester, owner of ''

U-T San Diego ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'' is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in San Diego, California, that has run since 1868. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, ''The San Diego Union'' and ...

'' (known as ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'' after 2015), bought the ''North County Times'' from Lee Enterprises in September 2012 for just under $12 million. One third of the staff was laid off. Subsequently, the print edition of the newspaper was folded into the ''U-T'' and called ''U-T North County Times'', which is an edition of ''U-T San Diego'' and combines North County-specific content with features and columns from the ''U-T''. The ''North County Times'' headquarters in Escondido were sold to the Classical Academy charter school. On March 7, 2013, the separate ''U-T North County Times'' name was dropped and a ''U-T'' North County edition produced which further integrates ''U-T'' with North County-specific pages, while eliminating differences between the two. Previously both the ''U-T North County Times'' and the regular ''U-T'' were sold side by side at newsstands. ''Californian'' readers were merged into the ''U-T Californian'', which includes a front section of Southwest Riverside County-specific content with the remaining content from the ''U-T'' North County edition. As of May 28, 2013, publication of the ''U-T Californian'' was terminated, and it was also reported that the distinct content of the North County edition was being de-emphasized. In January 2013, U-T San Diego took the archives of the North County Times offline; since then finding ''North County Times'' articles has been "hit or miss at best, mostly miss", according to the '' San Diego Reader''. The Georgina Cole branch of the

Carlsbad City Library The Carlsbad City Library is a public library in Carlsbad, California Carlsbad is a coastal city in the North County region of San Diego County, California, United States. The city is south of downtown Los Angeles and north of downtown San D ...

keeps microfiche copies of the ''North County Times'' covering January 1, 1996 to November 30, 2012 that are publicly available to view and scan.

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