Daily Breeze
- There is also a newspaper called the Daily Breeze located in Cape Coral, Florida.
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | MediaNews Group |
| Founder(s) | S. D. Barkley |
| Publisher | Linda Lindus |
| Editor | Toni Sciacqua |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Headquarters |
21250 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 170 Torrance, CA 90503 United States |
| Circulation |
76,618 Daily 69,554 Sunday (March 2013)[1] |
| Website |
www |
The Daily Breeze is a 70,000-circulation daily newspaper published in Torrance, California. It serves the South Bay cities of Los Angeles County. Its slogan is "LAX to LA Harbor".
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 1928, the Daily Breeze was purchased by Copley Press. The competition went out-of-business in 1970 [TheTorrance Herald, 1913-1969].
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. It merged with the (San Pedro) News-Pilot in 1999.
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.
In Dec. 2006, the paper was sold to the Hearst Corporation in a complex transaction that left the paper under the day-to-day control of Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group and its subsidiary, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (LANG). Singleton announced that he would fold the paper into the LANG operations, but not cut salaries. Singleton will eventually come to own the Daily Breeze under a 2007 plan to acquire ownership of the paper as part of a swap with Hearst in which Hearst would trade some California papers and the St. Paul Pioneer Press for an increased stake in Singleton's non-California operations.
In 2008, the paper ceased producing its weekly supplement, More San Pedro. Nine staff members were laid off at the same time including four reporters, a web editor, and a news room assistant.[2]
In 2015 the Daily Breeze won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for its coverage of a financial scandal in the Centinela Valley Union High School District.[3] The paper had earlier won a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for the same investigation.[4]
References
- ↑ "Total Circ for US Newspapers". Alliance for Audited Media. March 31, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ↑
- ↑ Benjamin Mullin, "Daily Breeze managing editor: 'We are stunned'", Poynter Institute, April 20, 2015.
- ↑ 2014 Winners, Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards (accessed 2014-04-20).
External links
- The Daily Breeze
- The Daily Breeze archive search
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