''The Desert Sun'' is a local daily newspaper serving

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and the surrounding

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History

''The Desert Sun'' is owned by

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''Daily News'' in 1990 to become the sole local newspaper. First issued on August 5, 1927, as a weekly six-page newspaper, ''The Desert Sun'' grew with the desert communities it serves. It covers local, state, national and world news, and has developed a variety of sections over time. The newspaper began to publish six days a week in 1955 and had its first Sunday edition on September 8, 1991. Its circulation to date is 50,000 and their distribution range is in regional communities from

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to Twentynine Palms to the

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. ''The Desert Sun''s headquarters are in Palm Springs, in an office complex built in 1991 to replace a smaller building. ''The Desert Sun'' publishes the ''Desert Post Weekly'', a variety entertainment paper available on every Thursday in the distribution range, as well as city-specific publications ''The Indio Sun'', ''The La Quinta Sun'', ''The Palm Springs Weekend'', ''The Palm Desert Sun'' and ''The Cathedral City Sun''. In 2010, the second page of the primary section is known as "7 by 7:30AM", to focus on the editor's selected seven most important stories of the day. The namesake was to estimate how long it takes to read the second page in half an hour (from 7:00 am to 7:30 am). Greg Burton served as executive editor of the paper from 2011–2018, before leaving to become executive editor of ''

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''. As of October 8, 2018, the executive editor became Julie Makinen. Makinen previously worked for ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', where she served as film editor and Beijing Bureau chief. On Sunday, September 20, 2020, ''The Desert Sun'' ran its printing presses for the final time. Print editions of ''The Desert Sun'' are now printed in Phoenix at Gannett's co-owned ''Arizona Republic''. In the 2010s, the Sun published a Spanish-Language weekly ''El Sol Desierto'' based in

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for its Hispanic/Latino readers. Its main regional competitor is the ''

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'' based in

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References

External links

''The Desert Suns Web site, mydesert.com

Official mobile website

{{DEFAULTSORT:Desert Sun Daily newspapers published in California Mass media in Riverside County, California Palm Springs, California Indio, California Coachella Valley Gannett publications Publications established in 1927

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