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Weeklys
Weeklys, formerly known as Metro Newspapers, is an American media group established in 1985 and based in San Jose, California. It publishes five free alternative newspaper, alternative weekly newspapers in Northern California: ''Metro Silicon Valley'', ''Good Times (newspaper), Good Times'', the ''Pacific Sun (newspaper), Pacific Sun'', ''East Bay Express'' and the ''North Bay Bohemian''; and ten community newspapers: the ''Gilroy Dispatch'', ''Healdsburg Tribune'', the ''Hollister Free Lance'', the ''King City Rustler'', the ''Los Gatan'', the ''Morgan Hill Times'', ''Salinas Valley Tribune'', ''Aptos Life'', ''The Pajaronian'' and ''Press Banner''. Together, the publications reach a weekly audience of about half a million people, according to The Media Audit. Weeklys also operates digital publishing businesses. The alt weeklies are free-distribution, tabloid-sized newspapers emphasizing news and analysis, local coverage and in-depth coverage of arts, culture and entertainmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Pulcrano
Dan Pulcrano (born c. 1959) is a journalist, editor, publisher and newspaper group owner in Northern California. He is CEO and executive editor of ''Metro Silicon Valley'', Silicon Valley's alternative newsweekly, as well as its sister publications around the Bay Area; ''Good Times (newspaper), Good Times'', the ''North Bay Bohemian'' and the ''Pacific Sun (newspaper), Pacific Sun'' and East Bay Express. The group also publishes ten community newspapers, as well as magazines and related digital titles. Early life Born in suburban New Jersey, where his parents were school teachers, Pulcrano entered the publishing field while still in junior high, when he produced an underground press, underground newspaper at the Wardlaw-Hartridge School#The Wardlaw Country Day School, Wardlaw Country Day School in Plainfield, New Jersey, Plainfield. He was asked to leave the school as a result and attended public schools afterwards, graduating at 16 and joining the staff of the ''San Diego Reade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Press Banner
The ''Press Banner'' is a local newspaper serving Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley, California in Santa Cruz County in the United States. It is published once per week on Fridays. It is operated by the Weeklys newspaper group, which also publishes the countywide free weekly ''Good Times'', the monthly Aptos Life and Watsonville-based '' The Pajaronian''. History The ''Press Banner'' was first published on December 2, 1960, as the ''Valley Press''. In 1974, the owners of the ''Valley Press'' created and published the ''Scotts Valley Banner'', which made its debut on February 27, 1974. The publications were purchased in 2005 by Tank Town Media, which is owned by Will Fleet and Ralph Alldredge. The two papers merged to become the ''Press Banner''. The first issue of the ''Press Banner'' was published on April 26, 2006. The ''Press Banner'' was sold on October 1, 2020, to the publisher of ''Good Times ''Good Times'' is an American television sitcom that aired for six seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Silicon Valley
''Metro'', also known as ''Metro Silicon Valley'', is a free weekly newspaper published by the San Jose, California-based Weeklys media group for four decades, a period during which its readership area became known as Silicon Valley. Metro was one of the earliest publishers to enter the digital media revolution, adding voice messaging to its classified advertising in the 1980s and free online access in 1993. It was the first newspaper to offer a downloadable PDF edition, with the launch of MetroPDF.com in 2003. The newspaper has been published since 1985 and is one of the last remaining founder-operated publications in the alternative press. Its principal distribution area encompasses the cities of San Jose, Los Gatos, Campbell, Saratoga, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Milpitas, Mountain View, Los Altos and Palo Alto. The publication’s investigative journalism is responsible for the Santa Clara County’s only felony political corruption conviction. Its rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Healdsburg Tribune
''The Healdsburg Tribune'' is a weekly newspaper covering the community of Healdsburg, California and the surrounding areas. History The newspaper began publication March 21, 1888 as the ''Sonoma County Tribune'', with Isidore Abraham listed as Editor and Louis Meyer as Associate Editor. It has changed titles several times since. The nonprofit Sonoma County Local News Initiative announced the Tribune's shutdown on April 28, 2022, and it was subsequently rescued by the owners of the North Bay Bohemian The ''North Bay Bohemian'' is a weekly newspaper published in the North Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The newspaper is distributed in Sonoma and Napa counties. The newspaper began publication in 1 ..., the Weeklys publishing group. It continued publication on schedule on May 5, 2022. “We are surprised, gratified and a little astonished,” said Nancy Dobbs, president of the board of directors of Sonoma County Local News Initiat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Bay Bohemian
The ''North Bay Bohemian'' is a weekly newspaper published in the North Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The newspaper is distributed in Sonoma and Napa counties. The newspaper began publication in 1979 as ''The Paper'' in the Guerneville area of western Sonoma County by artist turned community journalist Nick Valentine and jazz pianist Bob Lucas. Elizabeth Poole bought the struggling publication with family money shortly after its 1979 debut and owned it until its 1990 purchase by John Boland and James Carroll. ''The Paper'' was renamed the ''Sonoma County Independent'' in 1993 and published every other week under Boland and Carroll, who moved its offices to Santa Rosa. In 1994 the ''Independent'' was purchased by Weeklys, an independent group of three Bay Area alternative weeklies, and the publication frequency was changed to weekly. In 2000, the newspaper was rebranded as the ''North Bay Bohemian'' and the circulation area was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Bay Express
The ''East Bay Express'' is an Oakland-based weekly newspaper serving the Berkeley, Oakland and East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is distributed throughout Alameda County and parts of Contra Costa County every Wednesday. The ''Express'' is known for its investigative and longform news and feature stories, along with its award-winning arts, food and wine coverage. The paper is also well known for its opinionated viewpoint and for engaging in advocacy journalism. A typical issue of the ''Express'' contains one or two in-depth news stories; an "Eco Watch" column about environmental issues; a political column called Seven Days; a cover story, events and music listings; music, dining and movie reviews; a culture column; a parenting column; a tech column; and the syndicated Free Will Astrology column. Daedalus Howell served as editor-at-large after its sale by Telegraph Media to Metro Newspapers in the spring of 2020. Samantha Campos was named editor. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Times (newspaper)
''Good Times'' is a free-circulation weekly newspaper based in Santa Cruz, California. ''Good Times'' is distributed in Santa Cruz County, a coastal area that includes Capitola, Rio del Mar, Aptos and Watsonville. It is owned by the Northern California–based Metro Newspapers. Dan Pulcrano is the CEO and executive editor. History ''Good Times'' was founded in 1975 by Jay Shore, who remained its owner/operator and editor for 13 years. Shore established ''Good Times'' amidst a proliferation in the 1970s of short-lived free counterculture newspapers in Santa Cruz County that included ''The Free Spaghetti Dinner'', ''Sundaz!'', ''Santa Cruz Times'', ''People’s Press'' and the ''Santa Cruz Independent''. In 1988, Shore sold the paper to Independent Newspapers of New Zealand, part of Rupert Murdoch’s group of holdings, a year before much of downtown Santa Cruz was destroyed in the Loma Prieta earthquake. In 1998, Independent Newspapers sold ''Good Times'' to Central Vall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Sun (newspaper)
The ''Pacific Sun'' is a free distribution weekly newspaper published in Marin County, just north of San Francisco in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the longest running alternative weekly in the nation and is published on Wednesdays. Since October 2019, Daedalus Howell has been its editor. History The ''Pacific Sun'' was founded in April 1963 in California by Merrill and Joann Grohman in the back of a Stinson Beach grocery store. In 1966, the ''Pacific Sun'' moved its offices to San Rafael. Steve McNamara, the former Sunday editor of the ''San Francisco Examiner'', bought it from the Grohmans that year. Alice Yarish worked as a reporter for 11 years for the ''Pacific Sun''. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer worked as a reporter for the ''Pacific Sun'' for two years in the 1970s, winning a Press Club award for a 1973 story on a state supreme court controversy. Embarcadero Media, publisher of community weeklies in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Pleasanton, purchased ''The Sun'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Weekly
''LA Weekly'' is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California. The paper covers music, arts, film, theater, culture, and other local news in the Los Angeles area. ''LA Weekly'' was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin (among others), and he served as the publication's editor from 1978 to 1991, as well as its president from 1978 to 1992. Publication history Founding Jay Levin put together an investment group that included actor Michael Douglas, Burt Kleiner, Joe Benadon, and Pete Kameron. Levin's co-founders included Joie Davidow, Michael Ventura, and Ginger Varney. Levin was formerly the publisher of the '' Los Angeles Free Press''. The majority of the ''LA Weekly'''s initial staff members came from the '' Austin Sun'', a similar-natured bi-weekly, which had recently ceased publication. The group were inspired to create the ''LA Weekly'' by their work at the ''Sun'' as well as other alternative weeklies such as the ''Chicago Reader'' and Boston's '' The Real Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Cruz Weekly
''Santa Cruz Weekly'' was a free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California. It began publishing under its current name on May 6, 2009; publication ceased when operations were merged with the competing Good Times weekly on April 2, 2014, with the merged company continuing as Good Times. Formerly known as '' Metro Santa Cruz'', the alternative weekly covered news, people, culture and entertainment in Santa Cruz County, a coastal area that includes Capitola, Aptos, Boulder Creek, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. Locally based in Santa Cruz, the alternative weekly was owned by Metro Newspapers, a company started by Santa Cruz publisher Dan Pulcrano. The company also published ''Metro'' in the adjacent Santa Clara Valley, a.k.a. Silicon Valley and the ''North Bay Bohemian'' in the Sonoma/Napa/Marin area. In 2014, Metro bought the competing alternative weekly, ''Good Times'', and merged the two papers under the ''Good Times'' banner. Founded as Metro Santa C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zack Stentz
Zackary Lowell Stentz is an American film writer, writer and film producer, producer of film and television, journalism, journalist, novelist, and teacher, best known for his work on Marvel Entertainment, Marvel properties with former writing partner Ashley Edward Miller. Career Stentz graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in journalism. As a journalist, he wrote and edited for publications such as ''The Economist'', ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'', ''Sports Illustrated'', and ''Entertainment Weekly''. In addition, he was an environmental activist for Earth First! in the early 1990s. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in journalism, he worked for Metro Silicon Valley, writing about television, books and popular culture, as well as the Sonoma County Independent (now the North Bay Bohemian) In 1997, publisher Dan Pulcrano tapped Stentz to oversee Metro's rebranding and launch of its San Francisco monthly, The Metropolitan. After turning to screenwriting full ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominion Enterprises
Dominion Enterprises is a Norfolk, Virginia-based software and information services company for the automotive, power sports, real estate, travel and franchising industries. The businesses owned by Dominion Enterprises include DominionDMS, Activator, Dealer Specialties, Cross-Sell, DataOne Software, Prime Street, Franchise Ventures, DX1, ZiiDMS, and Travel Media Group. History Dominion Enterprises was established in September 2006 by Landmark Communications, Inc. following a division of assets of its predecessor company, Trader Publishing, between shared owners Landmark and Cox Enterprises. In May 2017, it sold Dominion Web Solutions to European firm Eurazeo and Goldman Sachs Group’s merchant banking division for $680 million. In September, the company sold ForRent.com to CoStar Group CoStar Group, Inc. is an American provider of information, analytics, and marketing services to the commercial property industry in North America and Europe. Founded in 1987 by Andrew C. Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
