Daily Breeze

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The Daily Breeze is a 70,000-circulation daily newspaper published in Torrance, California by the Copley Press. It serves the South Bay cities of Los Angeles County, and produces a weekly supplement in San Pedro.

[edit] Early history

The paper was founded as the weekly The Breeze in 1894 by local political activist S.D. Barkley and first served the local Redondo Beach community. Coverage eventually spread to other coastal cities, and by 1922, it had become a daily publication. In the late 1920s, the Daily Breeze became part of Copley family holdings.

[edit] Modern history

Like most of the newspaper industry, the Daily Breeze has suffered its share of hardships, with the rise of free news on the Internet and the competitive Los Angeles media market. Its parent company, Copley Press, is currently shopping it around to potential buyers. The leading suitor is the privately held MediaNews Group, but others rumored to be interested include the Tribune Company and Freedom. [[1]].

In 2005, it added to its circulation numbers through the purchase of two local weeklies, the Beach Reporter and Palos Verdes Peninsula News. In 2003, it created another weekly, More San Pedro, in the Harbor Area.