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 ...

is one of the major cities in

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. The following is a list of media outlets based in the city of San Diego. People in San Diego are also able to receive media from

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Print

Newspapers

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The San Diego Union-Tribune ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'' is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in San Diego, California, that has run since 1868. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, ''The San Diego Union'' and ...

'' is the city's primary newspaper, published daily. The ''Union-Tribune'' was formed in 1992 through a merger of the ''San Diego Union'' (established 1868) and the ''San Diego Evening Tribune'' (established 1881). The newspapers hald been under common ownership since 1901.Elizabeth A. Brennan & Elizabeth C. Clarage, ''Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners'' (Oryx, 1992), p. 371. The ''Evening-Tribune'' was the evening paper, while the ''Union'' was the morning paper; the ''Union-Tribune'' is a morning paper. As of 2015, the ''Union-Tribune'' had won four

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s and was the oldest company in continuous operation in San Diego.Dan McSwain
$85M deal to combine U-T, LA Times
''San Diego Union-Tribune'' (May 7, 2015). In 2015,

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, which operates the ''Los Angeles Times'' and other major U.S. daily newspapers, purchased the newspaper in an $85 million deal. The purchase ended 146 years of private local ownership for the paper. Other papers and news outlets published in the city include: * ''La Prensa San Diego'' * '' San Diego Daily Transcript'' * ''

San Diego City Beat ''San Diego CityBeat'' was an alternative weekly newspaper in San Diego, California that focused on local progressive politics, arts, and music. It was published every Wednesday and distributed around San Diego county, although with a focus on t ...

'' * The ''

San Diego Reader The ''San Diego Reader'' is an alternative press Alternative press may refer to: Individual publications * ''Alternative Press'' (magazine), an American music magazine Alternative journalism * Alternative media ** Alternative media (U.S. pol ...

'' is the largest

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in the city. Founded in 1972, the paper was headquartered in

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before moving to Golden Hill in 2012. * ''

San Diego Business Journal The ''San Diego Business Journal'' is a weekly newspaper in San Diego, California covering local business news. Each week, the San Diego Business Journal examines the economic news, demographics and lifestyle profiles of San Diego, and the many ...

'' * ''The Southern Cross'', the newspaper of the

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Neighborhood newspapers include: *''Beach & Bay Press'' ( Pacific Beach, Mission Beach and Mission Bay), published every other week *'' Carmel Valley News'' *''The Clairemont Times'' *'
he Coronado Times Newspaper
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Light'' *''

Village News'', published every other week *''

Mission Times Courier ''The Mission Times Courier'' is a monthly community newspaper published in San Diego, California, by Mission Publishing Group, LLC. The newspaper was founded May 11, 1995, by Sally and Jim Madaffer. On July 1, 2014, it was purchased by David Ma ...

'' *''Peninsula Beacon'' ( Ocean Beach and Point Loma), published every other week *''Presidio Sentinel'' *''

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News Journal'' *'' San Diego Downtown News'', published monthly *''San Diego Uptown News'' ( Bankers Hill, Balboa Park, Golden Hill, Hillcrest,

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, Mission Hills, Normal Heights, North Park,

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, Talmadge, University Heights), published monthly

Magazines

Magazines published in San Diego include: * '' Edible San Diego'' * ''Ranch & Coast'' * ''San Diego Family'' * ''

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'' * ''San Diego Troubadour''

Online

Online-only media in San Diego include: * Fresh Brewed Tech, a local tech news website * ''

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'', a national network of local news sites, operates in San Diego * ''San Diego Story'', an arts review website * The ''Times of San Diego'' is a Web-based news outlet founded in 2014 that features local news daily for the city and surrounding area. It has earned acclaim as a small business with a booming readership. Currently the site reaches over 1 million unique users every month, according to its published reports. The audience is young, with readers aged 18 to 44 constituting the largest segment. Nearly 60 percent of reading sessions are from

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. At the height of the

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in April 2020, the site reported 1.53 million unique users. Times of San Diego differs from other recent local-media startups in providing full daily coverage of news in a large metro area, rather than infrequent in-depth articles. It differs in this regard from Voice of San Diego, a 15-year-old startup, and has passed that website in audience size. Times of San Diego's contributing editors have been featured on local radio programs and have led training sessions for local journalists. Times of San Diego has been named "best news site" four years in row by the San Diego Press Club, and the site's editors took home 23 other awards in 2019. The site received a grant from Google in June 2020 to expand coverage of the local impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. * ''

Voice of San Diego ''Voice of San Diego'' is a nonprofit news organization focused on issues affecting the San Diego region. Background ''Voice of San Diego'' is an online-only local news site. Established in 2005, it was one of a number of such publications tha ...

'' (Voiceofsandiego.org) is a non-profit news outlet in San Diego that reports on the city. A Web-only local outlet, Voice of San Diego was founded in 2005, it was one of a number of such publications that emerged around that time in responsive to cutbacks in traditional local print newspapers. The site is known for both its news coverage and local

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. The website is partially funded by grants, but is financed primarily on a paid membership model. In 2016, Voice of San Diego launched the News Revenue Hub, a pilot project aimed at helping other nonprofit news organizations adopt its model. Members of the pilot include''

Honolulu Civil Beat Honolulu Civil Beat is a news website that practices journalism related to the U.S. state of Hawaii. Journalists and editors at Civil Beat have traveled to other U.S. held territories and military installations in the Pacific, reporting on curren ...

'', ''

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'', ''The Lens'', and ''New Jersey Spotlight''. It has won a variety of local journalism awards from the San Diego chapter of the

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(for reports exposing corruption at the

San Diego Unified School District San Diego Unified School District (formerly known as San Diego City Schools) is the school district based in San Diego, California, United States. It was founded in 1854. As of 2005 it represents over 200 institutions and has over 15,800 employee ...

) and from the San Diego Press Club. *inewsource, a nonprofit newsroom *Vanguard Culture, a nonprofit arts and culture website *Water News Network, a specialized newsroom operated by the

San Diego County Water Authority San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) is a wholesale supplier of water to the roughly western third of San Diego County, California. The Water Authority was formed in 1944 by the California State Legislature. SDCWA serves 24 member agencies wi ...

Radio

San Diego is a principal city of the San Diego radio market. In its Fall 2013 ranking of radio markets by population,

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ranked the San Diego market 17th in the United States. The market only covers San Diego County. The following is a list of

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s which broadcast from and/or are licensed to San Diego:

AM

FM

Television

The San Diego television market only includes San Diego County. The city is the headquarters of the privately held Herring Networks, which owns the AWE Network and One America News Network cable channels. The following is a list of

television station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the ea ...

s that broadcast from and/or are

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to San Diego.

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