''The Mendocino Voice'' is an independent daily
online newspaper based in and covering
Mendocino County
Mendocino County (; ''Mendocino'', Spanish for "of Mendoza) is a county located on the North Coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,601. The county seat is Ukiah.
Mendocino County consists whol ...
, in
Northern California.
History
''The Mendocino Voice'' was founded in September 2016 by two former employees of ''The Willits News'', a legacy newspaper based in the town of
Willits, California
Willits (formerly Little Lake and Willitsville) is a city in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located about north-northwest of Ukiah, at an elevation of . The population was 4,988 at the 2020 census. Willits is at the center ...
, and a property of
Digital First Media
MNG Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado-based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. The company has been growing its portfolio and as of May 2021, owns over 100 newsp ...
(DFM). The founders, Adrian Fernandez Baumann and Kate Maxwell, have cited a lack of local news stemming from the acquisition of small northern California newspapers by DFM and its control by
Alden Global Capital
Alden Global Capital is a hedge fund based in Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 2007 by Randall D. Smith. Its managing director is Heath Freeman. By mid-2020, Alden had stakes in roughly two hundred American newspapers. The company ...
, as reasons for starting a new local news service.
In the late 2010s ''The Mendocino Voice'' became among the most read in Mendocino County, and was cited by ''
The Sacramento Bee'', ''
The New York Times
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'' and the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'', and featured on the
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. In 2019, ''The Mendocino Voice'' was selected, jointly with
fellow.
The news service is part of a trend in the 2010s towards small, wholly online news services, that have abandoned print publication. As with many such publications it is a member of the Local Independent Online News Publishers group.
''The Mendocino Voice'' is known for its breaking news coverage, coverage of local issues and of the
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.