The Press-Telegram is a paid daily newspaper published in Long Beach, California . Coverage area for the Press-Telegram includes Long Beach, Lakewood , Signal Hill , Artesia , Bellflower , Cerritos , Compton , Downey , Hawaiian Gardens , Lynwood , Norwalk and Paramount .
17-520: The Press-Telegram 's precursor, the Press , was first published in 1897. The Press was purchased in the early 20th century by Charles H. Prisk and William F. Prisk , Charles being the owner and William the editor and publisher. Sometime after 1918 the Press was merged with another paper, the Daily Telegram ; the combined paper was first published under the name Daily Press , then, from 1924,
34-543: A miner. Prisk began working in the newspaper business at age 12; he graduated from Stanford University . A portrait of Prisk by Stephen Seymour Thomas is part of the Pasadena Historical Society collection. His daughter, Neva Prisk Malaby, married the Olympian , Charles William Paddock who joined Prisk in the newspaper business, Paddock eventually becoming vice president and general manager of
51-656: Is currently located at 5225 E. Second St., Suite 400, Long Beach, CA 90803. For the 2016 presidential election , the paper chose to endorse no candidate. This was later repeated in the 2020 cycle . For the 2021 California recall election , the paper joined its fellow members of the Southern California News Group and endorsed the recall, while also endorsing Republican Larry Elder to replace Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom . Charles H. Prisk Charles Henry Prisk (December 24, 1875 – 1940)
68-766: The Los Angeles Newspaper Group ), since 1996. It is also part of the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, along with the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and the Whittier Daily News . First published in 1884, the paper was originally located at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Oakland Avenue for years. That building is now home to Technique at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts and 24 Hour Fitness . The first radio broadcast of
85-693: The Pasadena Star-News , the Pasadena Post , and the Long Beach Press-Telegram . Prisk served as President of Pasadena's Rotary Club , and on the Board of Directors of First Trust and Savings Bank of Pasadena. Pasadena Star-News The Pasadena Star-News is a paid local daily newspaper for the greater Pasadena, California area. The Pasadena Star-News is a member of Southern California News Group (formerly
102-655: The Press-Telegram , with the Independent becoming the newspaper's morning edition and the Press-Telegram the evening edition. They had a combined circulation of approximately 243,000 at their peak in the late 1960s, under publisher Daniel Ridder and executive editor Miles Sines, making them the second largest printed news source in the Los Angeles area, behind the Los Angeles Times and ahead of
119-605: The Press-Telegram . On September 30, 1933, the Press-Telegram published what David Dayen called "One of the more influential letters to the editor in American history": Francis Townsend 's letter outlining the Townsend Plan, a proposal that sparked a national campaign which influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration's Social Security system. In 1952, the Independent (founded in 1938) merged with
136-638: The Rose Parade in 1926 aired from the newspaper's radio station KPSN, which broadcast out of a pair of radio towers that the building once hosted. From 1904 to 1940 Charles H. Prisk , was one of the first publishers and owner of the Pasadena Star-News. Charles was also the owner of Pasadena Post and the Long Beach Press-Telegram . William F. Prisk , his brother, was a publisher. William Paddock , Prisk's son-in-law,
153-807: The Thomson Corporation bought majority control of the paper a year later. Thomson sold the Star-News to Singleton's MediaNews Group in 1996, which went on to become part of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. The newspaper also publishes the Rose Magazine which provides coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl Game since 1994. Coverage area for the Pasadena Star-News includes
170-705: The cities of Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Temple City and Arcadia and the unincorporated communities of Altadena and East Pasadena. The competing media sources for the Pasadena Star-News are: Pasadena Now , Pasadena Weekly , Pasadena Independent and Pasadena Outlook in Pasadena; South Pasadena Review and South Pasadenan News in South Pasadena, San Marino Tribune in San Marino, Arcadia Weekly in Arcadia,
187-419: The historical Star-News Building included Ed Essertier, Charles Cherniss, Bill Winter, Larry Wilson, and Frank Girardot. Publishers after Bernard J. Ridder included Bill Applebee. Ridder Newspapers bought the Star-News in 1956 and Bernard J. Ridder took over as publisher. Ridder merged with Knight to form Knight Ridder in 1974. The paper was sold off in 1989 to a company owned by William Dean Singleton ;
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#1732801035012204-476: The paper began web publication in 1995. In 2011, the paper eliminated its sports, photography, and features departments. Some of the eliminated positions were picked up by the Torrance Daily Breeze , another Los Angeles Newspaper Group paper. The paper's longtime home, the Press-Telegram building at 6th Street and Pine Avenue, was sold in late 2006 to real estate developers intending to convert
221-670: The property into condominiums. The paper's operations were moved to the Arco Center in Downtown Long Beach . The building at 6th Street and Pine Avenue in Downtown Long Beach occupied nearly the entire block, and at one time encompassed the entire production of the paper, including the presses, which were formerly visible behind glass windows at street level. The old building on Pine Avenue was eventually acquired and redeveloped by Molina Healthcare . The paper
238-546: The strike-decimated Herald-Examiner . During this period, the Long Beach papers employed a number of journalists who would go on to prominent careers at other publications, including David Shaw , who received a Pulitzer Prize while working at the Los Angeles Times , Ross Newhan and Rich Roberts ( Los Angeles Times ), John Cash ( Las Vegas Sun ) and Bill Wasserzieher ( Village Voice ). The Independent
255-945: Was a California newspaper executive. He was editor and owner of the Pasadena Star-News ; and he owned the Pasadena Post , and the Long Beach Press-Telegram , of which his brother, William F. Prisk , was the publisher. Prisk was also the publisher of the Grass Valley Union in Nevada County, California . Prisk was born in Grass Valley, California , the son of William Frederick Prisk, Sr. and Mary (Hosking) Prisk. His parents were from Camborne , Cornwall , England , and they settled in Grass Valley where his father worked as
272-504: Was discontinued in 1981 after circulation slipped during the 1970s, leaving the Press-Telegram (now published in the morning) as the paper's only edition. The paper was owned by Ridder Publications and its successor Knight Ridder from 1952 to 1997, when it was acquired by its current owner, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (then a division of newspaper conglomerate MediaNews Group ). In 2013, MediaNews Group and 21st Century Media merged into Digital First Media . An online version of
289-533: Was the vice president and general manager of the Star-News, Pasadena-Post and the Press-Telegram. Willam Paddock married Prisk's daughter Neva Prisk Malaby, then began working at the newspapers as a result. William Paddock, also known as Olympic Champion Charles "Charley" Paddock, ran the world record for the 100-yard dash in 1921 at 9.5 seconds, giving him the title "World's Fastest Human". Editors in
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