The ''San Diego Daily Transcript'', also known as ''The Daily Transcript'', is an online newspaper covering business news in and around
San Diego, California
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the eighth most populous city in the United Stat ...
. Its print origins date to 1882, when it was called the ''National City Record''; it took on the ''Daily Transcript'' name in 1886.
The original publisher was one William Burgess.
It was considered official newspaper of record for the
City of San Diego
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the eighth most populous city in the United States ...
, which would lead to its having a "bid board" where public notice would be printed of government contract work.
As a consequence, the ''Daily Transcript'' became, in the words of one account of its history, "the business community's go-to publication for industry news and listings."
By 2004, some 2.8 million copies were printed over the course of each year.
It was one of the first newspapers to have an online presence, the San Diego Source, which was launched in 1994 and existed for two decades.
By the mid-2010s the paper had 6,000 paying web subscribers as compared to 1,500 subscribers to the print edition.
But times were tough all over for newspapers – even more so in this case because the online posting of government bid information took away much of its readership – and in 2015 the ''Daily Transcript'' was scheduled to close.
Instead, parts of it were bought by the
Los Angeles
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-based
Daily Journal Corporation
Daily Journal Corporation is an American publishing company and technology company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company has offices in Corona, Oakland, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Ana i ...
, and carried on in a lesser way in an online form, but the original ''San Diego Source'' online entity was not part of the deal.
References
External links
''Daily Transcript'' website''San Diego Source'' archive website125 years of ''The Daily Transcript'' timeline
Business newspapers published in the United States
Newspapers published in San Diego
Daily newspapers published in California
1882 establishments in California
Publications established in 1882
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