''The Daily Post'' is a free newspaper in
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (; Spanish language, Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree kno ...
, founded in 2008 by the ''
Palo Alto Daily News
''The Daily News'', originally the Palo Alto Daily News, is a free newspaper owned by MediaNews Group and located in Menlo Park. Founded in 1995, it was formerly published seven days a week and at one point had a circulation of 67,000 (a figure t ...
's'' founders,
Dave Price
David M. Price (born October 18, 1966) is an American journalist and weather forecaster who is currently working for WNBC-TV in New York as a weekday afternoon weatherman.
Price is perhaps best known for his time on CBS television's ''The Earl ...
and Jim Pavelich, who had sold that paper to new owners three years earlier.
''The Post'' is published Monday-Saturday and distributed in more than a dozen communities on the
San Francisco Peninsula
The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the City and County of San Francisco. Its southern base is Mountain View, south of Palo A ...
. The paper covers local news and carries reports from the
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspa ...
.
''The Post'' was founded by Price and Pavelich, originally occupying the ''Daily News's'' old office at 324 High Street in downtown Palo Alto, which the ''News'' had vacated when it moved to the outskirts of neighboring
Menlo Park.
Former ''Daily News'' editor
Diana Diamond, who was fired by the ''Daily News'' in 2006
and later a columnist at the ''
Palo Alto Weekly
The ''Palo Alto Weekly'' is a weekly community newspaper in Palo Alto in the U.S. state of California. Owned by Embarcadero Media, it serves Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, Stanford, East Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills.
It was e ...
,''
was the first employee whom the ''Daily Post'' announced hiring.
Originally, ''The Post's'' website did not carry news stories and only provided information about the paper, such as its address and phone number. Shortly after the paper launched, Pavelich had dismissed the need to publish ''Post'' stories online, saying "The Internet is a form of broadcast to me. We're not broadcasters. We just don't have the time to run two businesses," while the website said that "Giving away news online is a dumb way to do business."
As of May 2018, ''The Post'' website does have news stories, but also recommends that readers get a copy of the print edition to read some stories not published online.
References
External links
''The Daily Post'' website
Daily newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
Free daily newspapers
2008 establishments in California
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