Vallejo Times Herald
Daily newspaper in Vallejo, California, USA
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The Vallejo Times-Herald is a daily newspaper in Vallejo, California.[2] It is printed six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday.
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | Digital First Media |
| Founder(s) | T.L. Thompson J.F. Linthicum |
| Editor | Jack Bungart |
| Founded | 1872 (as the Vallejo Daily Independent) |
| Headquarters | 420 Virginia St., Ste. 2A, |
| City | Vallejo, California |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 3,264 Daily 4,278 Sunday (as of 2022)[1] |
| OCLC number | 34107484 |
| Website | timesheraldonline |
History
The first edition of the Vallejo Daily Independent was published on Jan. 6, 1872.[3] It was founded by T.L. Thompson and J.F. Linthicum.[4] Linthicum sold the paper three years later to A.B. Gibson and George Roe, who then changed the name to the Solano Daily Times on Sept. 23, 1875.[5] The paper later became the Vallejo Times.[6]
In 1916, Luther E. Gibson bought a small commercial printing plant in Santa Cruz and brought on high school student Kenneth F. Knight as his apprentice. A year later Gibson enlisted to in the U.S. military to serve during World War I. Knight finished school and started a monthly magazine called Sanda, which covered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. He soon expanded it to a weekly newspaper called The Mare Island Employee.[7]
Struggling to find a printer, he contacted Gibson who had just returned from France and was working at the Watsonville Register. The men formed a partnership with two others and each contributed $500 to purchase a defunct printing plant from Antioch and restart it in Vallejo.[7] On Jan. 4, 1922, the first edition of the Vallejo Herald was published by Gibson, Knight, John "Jerry" Motzko and Leonard King. At that time three other daily papers were published in the city.[8][9]
In April 1922, the Times merged with the Herald. Times publisher Robert W. Walker was the majority stock owner and Gibson was a minority owner and the paper's business manager.[10][11] Five years later Gibson bought the Vallejo Chronicle and merged it with Vallejo News to form the News-Chronicle, but the paper eventually ceased.[12] Gibson served as a California state senator from 1948 to 1968 and was simply known by some as "the senator."[12] In November 1973, Gibson sold a half-interest in the paper to the Donrey Media Group and continued to work as the paper's publisher.[13][14]
On June 20, 1978, five unions representing 88 employees working at the Times-Herald went on strike and picketed the office.[15] Thirty employees from other Donrey papers were brought in to put out the Times-Herald.[16] Some of the striking workers established a rival paper called the Vallejo Independent Press, or The V.I.P.[17] Wyman Riley served as publisher,[18] and the paper ceased in 1984.[19]
In July 1988, former owner Gibson died.[20] On Jan. 13, 1999, Donrey merged 10 of its California newspapers, including the Times-Herald, into Garden State Newspapers, which was owned by MediaNews Group. Donrey owned a third of the joint venture while MediaNews owned the majority stake.[21] In September 2000, Gannett joined the venture, called the California Newspaper Partnership.[22] In January 2002, Donrey was renamed to Stephens Media.[23] In June 2015, MediaNews acquired full control of the partnership.[24]
Miscellaneous
This newspaper was one of three newspapers to receive a letter from the Zodiac Killer on August 1, 1969.[25]