| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Digital First Media |
| Founder | H.J. Vail |
| Publisher | Ron Hasse |
| Editor | Frank Pine |
| Sports editor | Fred Robledo |
| Photo editor | Keith Birmingham |
| Founded | 1886 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 2 N. Lake Ave. Suite 150 Pasadena, California 91101 |
| Sister newspapers | Los Angeles Daily News San Gabriel Valley Tribune Whittier Daily News |
| Website | pasadenastarnews.com |
ThePasadena Star-News is a local daily newspaper for the greaterPasadena, California area. The PasadenaStar-News has been a member of the Southern California News Group[1] (formerly theLos Angeles Newspaper Group) since 1996. It is also part of the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, along with theSan Gabriel Valley Tribune and theWhittier Daily News. It is a paid newspaper with free online content.
In April 1886, H.J. Vail published the first issue of thePasadena Star.[2] In 1889, theStar absorbed theUnion.[3] In 1890, a stock company headed by George F. Kernaghan bought theStar.[4] In 1891, Charles A. Gardner bought out Kernaghan and became editor and publisher.[5][6] In 1900, J.P. Baumgartner sold his interests in theRiverside Press and bought theStar and installed.[7][6] He then Lyman M. King as editor.[8]
In November 1904,Charles H. Prisk purchased thePasadena Daily Star and installed Ernest H. Haack as editor.[9] In December 1910, Prisk became co-owner of theLong Beach Press.[10] On March 1, 1916, theStar merged with thePasadenaDaily News (founded in 1894) to form thePasadena Star-News.[11] For a time,William Paddock, Prisk's son-in-law who married his daughter Neva Prisk Malaby, was the vice president and general manager of the business.[12] In 1932, the Star bought and absorbed thePasadena Post.[13] In March 1940, Prisk died and was succeed by his brotherWilliam F. Prisk as the paper's publisher.[14] In 1956, Ridder Publications Inc. bought theStar-News and Independent from W.F. Prisk, E.D. Bates and Fred Runyon.Bernard J. Ridder took over as publisher.[15]
In 1974, Ridder merged with Knight Newspapers Inc. to formKnight Ridder.[16] In 1989, theStar-News and subsidiary Foothill Intercity Newspapers were sold for $55 million toMediaNews Group, a company owned byWilliam Dean Singleton. At that time the paper had a 39,000 daily circulation.[17] A year laterThomson Corporation, which owned theSan Gabriel Valley Tribune, bought a majority stake in theStar-News while Singleton retained a minority interest.[18] In 1996, Thomson sold theStar-News,Tribune, andWhittier Daily News to MediaNews Group.[19] The three papers went on to become part of the subsidiaryLos Angeles Newspaper Group.[20]
The newspaper publishes theRose Magazine, which has provided coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade and theRose Bowl Game since 1994.[21]
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 toTechnique at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts and24 Hour Fitness.[12] The first radio broadcast of theRose 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.[12]
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