The ''Press-Telegram'' is a paid daily newspaper published in
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California.
Incorporate ...
. Coverage area for the ''Press-Telegram'' includes Long Beach,
Lakewood,
Signal Hill,
Artesia,
Bellflower,
Cerritos,
Compton
Compton may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Compton (electoral district), a former Quebec federal electoral district
* Compton (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district now part of Mégantic-Compton
* Compton, Que ...
,
Downey Downey may refer to:
People
*Downey (surname)
*Robert Downey Jr.
Places
*Downey, California, US
*Downey, Idaho, US
*Downey, Iowa, US
Businesses
*W. & D. Downey, photographic studio
*Downey Studios, created out of a former Boeing plant
Schools
* ...
,
Hawaiian Gardens
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,
Lynwood,
Norwalk and
Paramount
Paramount (from the word ''paramount'' meaning "above all others") may refer to:
Entertainment and music companies
* Paramount Global, also known simply as Paramount, an American mass media company formerly known as ViacomCBS. The following busin ...
.
History
The ''Press-Telegram''
's precursor, the ''Press'', was first published in 1897.
The ''Press'' was purchased in the early 20th century by
Charles H. Prisk and
William F. Prisk, Charles being the owner and William the editor and publisher. Sometime after 1918 the ''Press'' was merged with another paper, the ''Daily Telegram''; the combined paper was first published under the name ''Daily Press''
then, from 1924, the ''Press-Telegram''.
Francis Townsend
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's letter outlining the Townsend Plan, a proposal that sparked a national campaign which influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration's Social Security
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system.
In 1952, the ''Independent'' (founded in 1938) merged with the ''Press-Telegram'', with the ''Independent'' becoming the newspaper's morning edition and the ''Press-Telegram'' the evening edition. They had a combined circulation of approximately 243,000 at their peak in the late 1960s, under publisher Daniel Ridder and executive editor Miles Sines, making them the second largest printed news source in the Los Angeles area, behind the Los Angeles Times
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and ahead of the strike-decimated Herald-Examiner. During this period, the Long Beach papers employed a number of journalists who would go on to prominent careers at other publications, including David Shaw, who received a Pulitzer Prize
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while working at the ''Los Angeles Times'', Ross Newhan Ross or ROSS may refer to:
People
* Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan
* Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning
* Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland
Places
* RoSS, the Republic of Sout ...
and Rich Roberts (''Los Angeles Times''), John Cash (Las Vegas Sun
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) and Bill Wasserzieher
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History
His earliest articles appeared during the late 1960s and early 1970s in the then Knight-Ridder-owned ''Independent'' and ''Pre ...
(Village Voice
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). The ''Independent'' was discontinued in 1981 after circulation slipped during the 1970s, leaving only the ''Press-Telegram'' (now published in the morning) as the paper's only edition.[
The paper was owned by Ridder Publications and its successor ]Knight Ridder
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from 1952 to 1997, when it was acquired by its current owner, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group
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(then a division of newspaper conglomerate MediaNews Group
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). In 2013, MediaNews Group and 21st Century Media
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The company operated more than 350 multi-platform products in 992 comm ...
merged into Digital First Media
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.
An online version of the paper began web publication in 1995.[ In 2011, the paper eliminated its sports, photography, and features departments. Some of the eliminated positions were picked up by the '']Torrance Daily Breeze
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Early history
The paper was founde ...
'', another Los Angeles Newspaper Group paper.
The paper's longtime home, the Press-Telegram building at 6th Street and Pine Avenue, was sold in late 2006 to real estate developers intending to convert the property into condominiums. The paper's operations were moved to the Arco Center in Downtown Long Beach. The building at 6th Street and Pine Avenue in Downtown Long Beach occupied nearly the entire block, and at one time encompassed the entire production of the paper, including the presses, which were formerly visible behind glass windows at street level. The old building on Pine Avenue was eventually acquired and redeveloped by Molina Healthcare
Molina Healthcare is a managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, United States. The company provides health insurance to individuals through government programs such as Medicaid and Medicare (United States), Medicare.
Histor ...
. The paper is currently located at 5225 E. Second St., Suite 400
Long Beach, CA 90803.
For the 2016 presidential election, the paper chose to endorse no candidate. This was later repeated in the 2020 cycle.
For the 2021 California recall election, the paper joined its fellow members of the Southern California News Group
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and endorsed the recall, while also endorsing Republican Larry Elder
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to replace Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom
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.
References
External links
The Long Beach Press-Telegram
Latest Headline of Paper
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Daily newspapers published in Greater Los Angeles
Mass media in Long Beach, California
MediaNews Group publications
Lakewood, California
Artesia, California
Bellflower, California
Cerritos, California
Downey, California
Norwalk, California
Paramount, California
Publications established in 1897
1897 establishments in California
Digital First Media