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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Digital First Media |
| Founder | S. D. Barkley |
| Publisher | Ron Hasse |
| Editor | Frank Pine |
| Founded | 1894; 131 years ago (1894) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 2615 Pacific Coast Hwy, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 United States |
| Circulation | 57,185 Daily 67,970 Sunday (as of September 2014)[1] |
| Website | dailybreeze |
TheDaily Breeze is a dailynewspaper published inHermosa Beach, California, United States. It serves theSouth Bay cities ofLos Angeles County. Its slogan is "LAX to LA Harbor".
The paper was founded as the weeklyThe Breeze in 1894[2] by local politicalactivist S. D. Barkley and first served the localRedondo Beach community. At that time the town had a population of 500 and included a few buildings andHotel Redondo.[3] Barkley aligned himself with The Wets, a group of four local saloonkeepers who wanted to remain open while The Drys opposed alcohol consumption and fought to close them. In 1910, residents voted against closing them.[3]
Barkley operated the paper for about two decades until selling it around 1913 to George Murphy, who was soon succeeded by Frank L. Perry.[3] The paper changed hands seven times in two years. In 1917, it came under the ownership of George F. Orgibet.[4] Five years later in 1922, Orgibet sold the weekly paper to K.W. Kellogg, who then expanded it into a daily publication.[5] In 1928,Copley Press purchased theDaily Breeze and 14 other paper from Kellogg Newspapers, Inc.[6]
In December 2006, the paper was sold by Copley Press to theHearst Corporation in a complex transaction that left the paper under the day-to-day control of Dean Singleton'sMediaNews Group and its subsidiary, theLos Angeles Newspaper Group (LANG). Singleton announced that he would fold the paper into the LANG operations, but not cut salaries.[7] Singleton will eventually come to own theDaily 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 theSt. Paul Pioneer Press for an increased stake in Singleton's non-California operations.[8]
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 newsroom assistant.[9] In 2015, theDaily Breeze won two major awards for its series of investigative reports, throughout 2014, regarding a financial scandal in theCentinela Valley Union High School District.[10] In March, the paper won aScripps HowardNational Journalism Award for Community Journalism for the investigation,[11] and in April thePulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.[12][13]
The filmPineapple Express and television showZeke & Luther have filmed at theDaily Breeze's previous headquarters location in Torrance, California.[14]