The ''Press-Telegram'' is a paid daily newspaper published in Long Beach, California. Coverage area for the ''Press-Telegram'' includes Long Beach,

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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 Charles Henry Prisk (December 24, 1875 – 1940) was a California newspaper executive. He was editor and owner of the ''Pasadena Star-News''; and he owned the ''Pasadena Post'', and the Long Beach Press-Telegram, of which his brother, William ...

and

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, 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''. On September 30, 1933, the ''Press-Telegram'' published what David Dayen called "One of the more influential letters to the editor in American history": Francis Townsend's letter outlining the Townsend Plan, a proposal that sparked a national campaign which influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration's Social Security 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 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

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while working at the ''Los Angeles Times'',

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( Village Voice). 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

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from 1952 to 1997, when it was acquired by its current owner, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (then a division of newspaper conglomerate

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'', 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

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. 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. The paper is currently located at 5225 E. Second St., Suite 400 Long Beach, CA 90803. For the

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, the paper chose to endorse no candidate. This was later repeated in the 2020 cycle. For the

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, the paper joined its fellow members of the Southern California News Group and endorsed the recall, while also endorsing Republican Larry Elder to replace Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.

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