Daily Breeze
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| Daily Breeze | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Media News, Inc. |
| Editor | Phillip Sanfield |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Headquarters | 5215 Torrance Blvd. Torrance, CA 90503-4077 United States |
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| Website: DailyBreeze.com | |
The Daily Breeze is a 70,000-circulation daily newspaper published in Torrance, California. 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.
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.
[edit] External link
- The Daily Breeze
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