The Californian (Temecula) and Fallbrook Enterprise[4]
TheDaily Times-Advocate, also called theEscondido Times-Advocate, was a daily newspaper published inEscondido, California. It was founded in 1909 and ceased publication as a separate title in 1995.
The Daily Times-Advocate was founded in 1909 following the merger of two weekly papers,The Escondido Times (founded by A. J. Lindsey in 1886) andThe Escondido Advocate (founded by A. D. Dunn in 1891). Also known later as theEscondido Times-Advocate, it was one of the longest-standing institutions in Escondido's history.[5] It had been bought by the Appleby family in the early 1960s with Carlton R. Appleby becoming its publisher. Appleby sold the paper in 1977 toTribune Publishing who at the time were buying up a number of other Southern California papers.[6]
The newspaper expanded its holdings in 1988 to includeThe Californian in Temecula andFallbrook Enterprise, both purchased from longtime owner Marmack Publishing Co.[7]
In 1990, theTimes-Advocate was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Explanatory Journalism for its coverage of a shooting spree by an Escondido mail carrier and an examination of the challenges faced by Postal Service workers.[8]
In 1995, Tribune Publishing sold its Southern California holdings, including its largest one, theTimes-Advocate, toHoward Publications. At the time of the sale, theTimes-Advocate had a circulation of 40,000.[9]Oceanside'sNorth County Blade-Citizen and theTimes-Advocate were merged that year to form theNorth County Times.[10] That paper ceased publication as a separate title in 2013 when it was bought byThe San Diego Union-Tribune and merged into the larger paper to become its North County edition.[11][12]
TheTimes-Advocate's final publisher was John M. Armstrong and its final editor was Richard K. Petersen.[13][14][15]
The "Times-Advocate" name, which had fallen into the public domain, was revived by real estate broker Kelly Crews for a completely different publication in 2014. Crews sold that publication to the proprietor of theValley Roadrunner in January 2016.[16][17]
In 1979 photographerLen Lahman quit his job at theLos Angeles Times to begin a one-year personal project documenting the lives of California's migrant workers and the toll their living and working conditions had taken on them. Hisphoto essay, pioneering for its time, was rejected by numerous publications, includingNational Geographic. He finally found a publisher in theTimes-Advocate who ran it in 1980 as a 16-page supplement entitledFaces Beyond the Border. The following year, Lehman won theRobert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for the piece.[18] A 1987–1988 series of stories by Catherine Spearnak for theTimes-Advocate andSan Diego Magazine on the unsolved murders of San Diego women involved in prostitution led to the establishment of San Diego's multi-agency Metropolitan Homicide Task Force.[19]
Other staff or contributors who worked for the newspaper in their early careers include:
James W. Huston (1953–2016), lawyer and author known for his military and legal thrillers who wroteop-eds for theTimes-Advocate in the early 1990s[20]
Mary Jacobus (1957–2009), newspaper executive and former manager of theBoston Globe who was director of sales and marketing at theTimes-Advocate in the 1980s[21][22]
Armen Keteyian (1953–), journalist and author who worked as a sports and feature writer for the paper from 1978 to 1980[23]
Jim Toomey (1960–), whose comic stripSherman's Lagoon was first published in theTimes-Advocate in 1991 and went on to national syndication[24]
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