 The Mendocino Beacon sign still hangs on the newspaper's original home at 45062 Ukiah St., Mendocino | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | MediaNews Group,Digital First Media |
| Publisher | K.C. Meadows[1] |
| Founded | October 1877 (1877-10) |
| Headquarters | Fort Bragg,Mendocino County, California |
| Circulation | 2,400[2] |
| Website | mendocinobeacon |
The Mendocino Beacon is aweekly newspaper for the community ofMendocino, California, owned byMediaNews Group.[3]
The Mendocino Beacon was founded on October 6, 1877 by W. H. Meacham andWilliam Heeser,[4][5][6][7] an immigrant from Germany who also founded theFort Bragg Advocate-News and three other local newspapers inKibesillah,Rockport, andWestport.[8] It succeeded theStar, a local newspaper that had been founded previously by M. J. C. Galvin.[7] In an 1878 catalog of North American newspapers theBeacon was advertised as "an independent and vigorous weekly journal, published at a point of rising importance as a place of shipping and trade."[9] From 1975 to 1977 it was published under an alternative name, theMendocino Coast Beacon.[6]
In 2000, the newspaper offices moved from Mendocino toFort Bragg, ten miles north of Mendocino, and consolidated with the offices of theFort Bragg Advocate-News.[10]
In the 2009California Newspaper Publishers Association's "Better Newspaper Contest", the Mendocino Beacon won first place in its circulation category for a business/financial story, for a story on Heritage House by Frank Hartzell.[11] It has also won similar awards in previous years.[12][13][14][15]