This is a list of media outlets based in the city ofSan Diego. People in San Diego are also able to receive media fromTijuana, Mexico.

• The San Diego Union-Tribune is the city's primary newspaper, published daily.^[1] TheUnion-Tribune was formed in 1992 through a merger of theSan Diego Union (established 1868) and theSan Diego Evening Tribune (established 1881).^[2] The newspapers hald been under common ownership since 1901.^[3] TheEvening-Tribune was the evening paper, while theUnion was the morning paper; theUnion-Tribune is a morning paper.^[3] As of 2015, theUnion-Tribune had won fourPulitzer Prizes and was the oldest company in continuous operation in San Diego.^[4] In 2015,Tribune Publishing, which operates theLos Angeles Times and other major U.S. daily newspapers, purchased the newspaper in an $85 million deal.^[4] The purchase ended 146 years of private local ownership for the paper.^[4]

Other papers and news outlets published in the city include:

• La Prensa San Diego^[5]
• San Diego Daily Transcript
• San Diego City Beat
• TheSan Diego Reader is the largestalternative weekly in the city. Founded in 1972, the paper was headquartered inLittle Italy before moving toGolden Hill in 2012.^[6]
• San Diego Business Journal
• The Southern Cross, the newspaper of theRoman Catholic Diocese of San Diego

Neighborhood newspapers include:

• Beach & Bay Press (Pacific Beach,Mission Beach andMission Bay), published every other week^[7]
• Carmel Valley News^[8]
• TheClairemont Times^[9]
• The Coronado Times Newspaper
• La Jolla Light^[10]
• La Jolla Village News, published every other week^[11]
• Mission Times Courier
• Peninsula Beacon (Ocean Beach andPoint Loma), published every other week^[12]
• Presidio Sentinel^[13]
• Rancho Bernardo News Journal^[14]
• San Diego Downtown News, published monthly^[15]
• San Diego Uptown News (Bankers Hill,Balboa Park,Golden Hill,Hillcrest,Kensington,Mission Hills,Normal Heights,North Park,Old Town,South Park,Talmadge,University Heights), published monthly^[16]

Magazines published in San Diego include:

• Edible San Diego^[17]
• Giving Back Magazine^[18]
• Ranch & Coast^[19]
• San Diego Family^[20]
• San Diego Magazine
• San Diego Troubadour^[21]

Online-only media in San Diego include:

• Fresh Brewed Tech, a local tech news website^[22]
• Patch, a national network of local news sites, operates in San Diego
• San Diego Story, an arts review website^[23]
• TheTimes of San Diego is a web-based news outlet founded in 2014^[24][25] that features local news daily for the city and surrounding area.^[26][27] It has earned acclaim as a small business with a booming readership.^[28][29] Currently the site reaches over 1 million unique users every month, according to its published reports. The audience is young, with readers aged 18 to 44 constituting the largest segment. Nearly 60 percent of reading sessions are fromSouthern California. At the height of theCOVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, the site reported 1.53 million unique users.^[30] TheTimes of San Diego differs from other recent local-media startups in providing full daily coverage of news in a large metro area, rather than infrequent in-depth articles. It differs in this regard fromVoice of San Diego, a 15-year-old startup, and has passed that website in audience size. TheTimes of San Diego's contributing editors have been featured on local radio programs and have led training sessions for local journalists.^[31][32][33] TheTimes of San Diego has been named "best news site" four years in row by the San Diego Press Club, and the site's editors took home 23 other awards in 2019.^[34][35] The site received a grant from Google in June 2020 to expand coverage of the local impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[36]
• Voice of San Diego (Voiceofsandiego.org) is anon-profit news outlet in San Diego that reports on the city.^[37] A Web-only local outlet,Voice of San Diego was founded in 2005,^[38] it was one of a number of such publications that emerged around that time in responsive to cutbacks in traditional local print newspapers.^[39][40][41] The site is known for both its news coverage and localinvestigative reporting.^[38][41][42] The website is partially funded by grants, but is financed primarily on a paid membership model. In 2016,Voice of San Diego launched the News Revenue Hub, a pilot project aimed at helping other nonprofit news organizations adopt its model. Members of the pilot includeHonolulu Civil Beat,InsideClimate News,The Lens, andNew Jersey Spotlight.^[43][44][45] It has won a variety of local journalism awards from the San Diego chapter of theSociety of Professional Journalists (for reports exposing corruption atSan Diego Unified School District)^[46] and from the San Diego Press Club.^[47][48]
• inewsource, a nonprofit newsroom^[49]
• Vanguard Culture, a nonprofit arts and culture website^[50]
• Water News Network, a specialized newsroom operated by theSan Diego County Water Authority.^[51]

San Diego is a principal city of the San Diegoradio market. In its Fall 2013 ranking of radio markets by population,Arbitron ranked the San Diego market 17th in the United States. The market only covers San Diego County.^[52]

The following is a list ofradio stations which broadcast from and/or are licensed to San Diego:

The San Diegotelevision market only includes San Diego County. The city is the headquarters of the privately heldHerring Networks, which owns theAWE Network andOne America News Network cable channels.

The following is a list oftelevision stations that broadcast from and/or arelicensed to San Diego.

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