Media
August 15, 1846 - Rev. Walter Colton published “Californian” in Monterey, CA
Broadcasting
1909 - Dr. Charles Herrold, scientist and inventor, began, as hobby, broadcasting regularly-scheduled programming on 14-watt transmitter in San Jose, CA; first to "broadcast" radio entertainment, information to mass audience (daily through 1917) of experimenters who listened on home made crystal radios; first regular radio broadcasting station, in continuous operation, in world; lacked call letters, simply identified itself as "This is San Jose Calling"; 1921 - radio licenses issued, Herrold assigned call letters of KQW; operated station KQW for several years, ran out of money; worked as radio time salesman, audiovisual technician for high school, janitor at local naval facility; 1949 - acquired by CBS (740 AM on dial); 1968 - became first all news station in Northern California; has won every major national award for excellence in broadcast journalism (Peabody Award, duPont-Columbia Award, five Edward R. Murrow Awards for Overall Excellence from national Radio-TV News Directors Association, Sigma Delta Chi Award from Society of Professional Journalists, Crystal Award for public service from National Association of Broadcasters).
April 15, 1949 - Pacifica went on air as KPFA 94.1 fm in Berkeley CA; first listener supported non-commercial radio station in United States (created by Lewis Hill; 1951 - Pacifica received first major foundation grant (Ford Foundation) for support of non-commercial broadcast operation; 1959 - Pacifica began second station, KPFK-FM, in Los Angeles (Terry Drinkwater as General Manager); 1968 - established Pacifica Radio News (originally Washington News Bureau of WBAI/New York) in Washington DC; December 12, 2001 - Pacifica board, dissident groups signed settlement that led to democratization of Pacifica radio network (listener-subscribers won right to vote for representatives on local station board).
1958 - Dr. Donald Hare founded Grass Valley Group as R&D company in Grass Valley, CA; 1964 - demonstrated its first video product, solid-state video distribution amplifier, in hotel room at National Association of Broadcasters convention; 1968 - introduced its first vision mixer, flagship product that helped build company’s reputation; 1974 - merged with Tektronix; September 24, 1999 - video business acquired by Terry Gooding of San Diego, CA; reincorporated as Grass Valley Group Inc.; 2002 - acquired by French electronics giant Thomson SA; 2009 - Thomson planned to sell division; world's video and film experts (especially as broadcast, television, and film production go digital).
1965 - Gene Chenault, Bill Drake introduced prepackaged programming (Chenault hired Drake in 1962); delivered more music, fewer commercials to hundreds of stations, created automated format; used reel-to-reel tapes of tightly spaced Top 40 hits (designed by Drake, marketed and syndicated by Chenault); raised ratings at station after station, brough big-city sound to many small towns; KHJ leapt from 12th to first place in Los Angeles ratings; KGB in San Diego went from last to first in its market in 90 days; 1975 - Drake-Chenault Enterprises, consulting company in Canoga Park, CA, served about 350 client stations with makeover advice, totally automated packages in six formats; 1979 - produced “The History of Rock ’n’ Roll,” 50-hour documentary that met with phenomenal success. Stations clamored to schedule it, first as a blockbuster weekend special, then in repeat broadcasts of shorter segments.
(Pacifica Radio), Jeff Land (1999). Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash Experiment. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 179 p.). To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the independent Pacifica Radio Network. How Lewis Hill and other pacifist conscientious objectors formed the Pacifica Foundation in 1946 to take their agenda beyond "ivory towerism" and to resist the "mediocrity and exploitation" that they believed defined commercial radio; FCC denied AM application, began to broadcast in April 1949 on FM via KPFA in the California Bay Area (classical music, intellectual roundtables, poetry, controversial politics); 1980 - Pacifica Radio network, with stations in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, DC, Houston; role in American culture; power of First Amendment.
(Pacifica Radio), Matthew Lasar (2000). Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 304 p.). Pacifica Radio; Alternative radio broadcasting --United States.
(Pacifica Radio), Matthew Lasar (2006). Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio's Civil War. (London, UK: Germinal Productions, Ltd/ Black Apollo Press, 432 p.). Teaches History (University of California in Santa Cruz). Epic battle over five listener supported radio stations that rocked American Left, raised difficult questions about public broadcasting in United States.
Publishing
August 15, 1846 - Walter Colton, Robert B. Semple published first edition of ‘Monterey Californian’ on cigarette paper in a cigar shop in Monterey, CA; California’s first newspaper, published every Saturday morning; April 24, 1847 - Semple sole publisher (Colton retired); June 1, 1847 - moved offices to Yerba Buena; name changed to ‘Californian’; May 29, 1848 - closed, entire staff left for Gold Rush.
January 9, 1847 - Samuel Brannan (arrived, with 238 other Mormons, on July 31, 1846 aboard the 'Brooklyn') established 'The California Star' at 743 Washington St., San Francisco, CA (Dr. Elbert P. Jones, editor); first newspaper (weekly on Saturday) in San Francisco; April 1847 - Jones withdrew; no editor; October 2, 1847 - edited by Edward C. Kemble (Brannan's partner); 1848 - acquired from Brannan by Kemble for $800; June 14, 1848 - publication suspended due to staff departures (Gold Rush); November 18, 1848 - Kemble resumed publishing ‘California Star’ and ‘The Californian’ as ‘Star and Californian’; January 4, 1849 - partnership between Kemble, Edward Gilbert, George C. Hubbard published first edition of ‘Alta California’ (weekly newspaper published on Thursday; $6/year, $.25/copy); January 23, 1850 - published daily (except Sunday; first daily newspaper in California); April 1, 1850 - name changed to ‘Daily Alta California’; July 4, 1850 - printed on steam press (first in California); August 11, 1850 - began Sunday editions; June 18, 1891 - last issue.
March 15, 1848 - ‘The Californian’ reported discovery of gold; March 25, 1848 - ‘The California Star’ newspaper reported discovery of gold; April 1, 1848 - printed six-page extra edition; described "immensely rich" gold mine in Sacramento Valley; June 10, 1848 - publication of California Star temporarily halted because the staff had rushed of to the Sierra gold fields; November 11, 1848 - The Californian acquired by California Star; November 18, 1848 - Kemble published California Star and The Californian; January 22, 1849 - name changed to The Alta California; first daily newspaper in California.
May 27, 1851 - La Estrella de Los Angeles (The Star of Los Angeles) first published
May 29, 1851 - John Judson Ames published first edition of San Diego Herald, San Diego’s first newspaper (organ of United States Senator William M. Gwin, who expected to bring about the division of the state, the annexation of Lower California and the Sandwich Islands, and the construction of a Southern transcontinental railway terminating at San Diego; would have made San Diego the capital of the new state); four-page four-column paper, published every Thursday; 1860 - published last edition.
June 1854 - Crescent City Herald first to publish in northwestern California; 1861 - discontinued; September 1872-March 1875 - Crescent City Courier; 1879 - Del Norte Record began publishing; 1881 - acquired Crescent City Courier; 1892 - Crescent City News established; 1910-1912 - merged with Del Norte Record, with Coast Times; with Del Norte Argus; formed Del Norte Triplicate; 1926 - Crescent City American established; 1968 - became Crescent City Sunday American; 1969 - merged with Triplicate; renamed The Daily Triplicate; one of longest running newspapers in Northwest California.
February 3, 1857 - James McClatchy published first issue of The Daily Bee in Sacramento, CA: "The name of The Bee has been adopted as being different from that of any other paper in the state and as also being emblematic of the industry which is to prevail in its every department"; 1883 - Valentine Stuart and Charles Kenny (sons) bought out last remaining co-owner of newspaper after their father's death; September 1, 1923 - After nearly 40 years of running the company as equals, brothers agreed to bid privately against each other for sole control of company; C.K. submitted higher bid, took over; 1979 - acquired first out-of-state newspapers; 1989 - Erwin Potts became first non-family member to head company; 1999 - revenues exceed $1 billion for the first time; 2004 - 20th consecutive year of daily circulation growth, record unmatched in U.S. newspaper industry; March 13, 2006 - announced agreement to purchase Knight Ridder, United States' second largest chain of daily newspapers for $4.5 billion in cash and stock; gave McClatchy 32 daily newspapers in 29 markets, total circulation of 3.3 million.
June 25, 1859 - I.W. Carpenter published first issue of Tulare County Record in the basement of the county courthouse in Visalia, CA (in San Joaquin Valley); four pages of five columns each with subtitle "And Fresno Examiner"; published every Saturday); August 13, 1859 - acquired by John C. Shannon and C. Killmer; October 8, 1859 - renamed Visalia Weekly Delta; 1865 - merged with Visalia Weekly, renamed Visalia Times-Delta; 1887 - acquired by George Stewart, partner; February 22, 1892 - acquired by Ben Maddox; January 1, 1909 - acquired by H. W. Dockham and Charles Whitmore; March 1, 1928 - Delta and Times merged, formed Visalia Times-Delta, published in the afternoon; October 31, 1944 - acquired by E. William Kampe of Chicago; June 1, 1948 - acquired by by Speidel Newspapers, Inc.; May 1976 - Speidel merged with Gannett
1861 - A. Jerome (Ai) Barney, Jerome A. Barney (son) founded Marin County Journal, county's first newspaper; October 5, 1872 - acquired by Simon Fitch Barstow; 1900 - Harry Granice (The Sonoma Index-Tribune) established San Rafael Independent; November 1, 1926 - Independent acquired by Harry Lutgens (Sonoma Valley Forum, Sebastopol Times, press secretary to Governor Friend W. Richardson); October 1927 - went daily; 1937 - acquired by California Newspapers. Inc. (Jack Craemer, Roy A. Brown, William Hart); 1948 - merged with Marin Journal, formed Marin Independent Journal; December 7, 1979 - acquired by Gannett; 2000 - acquired by MediaNews group (William Dean Singleton).
January 16, 1865 -Charles and Michael de Young (19 and 17) founded Daily Dramatic Chronicle in San Francisco with a borrowed $20 gold piece; circulation: 2,000; San Francisco population: 60,000; September 1, 1868 - changed name to Morning Chronicle; July 27, 2000 - The Chronicle acquired from The Chronicle Publishing Company by Hearst Corporation.
October 10, 1868 - Colonel William Jeff Gatewood, lawyer and publisher of the San Andreas Register, partner Edward W. Bushyhead, San Andreas miner and printer (retired June 1873), J. N. Briseno, printer, published first edition of San Diego Union (4 pages on hand press) at 2626 San Diego Avenue, Old Town; 1886 - acquired by San Diego Union Co.; 1890 - acquired by John D. and Adolph B. Spreckels; December 2, 1895 - T.D. Beasley, F.E.A. Kimball published first issue of The Evening Tribune as daily paper; 1901 - acquired by John D. Spreckels; 1928 - acquired from Spreckels estate by Ira Clifton Copley (The Copley Press Inc. of Illinois); February 2, 1992 - two newspapers merged, formed San Diego Union-Tribune; oldest business in San Diego County, second-oldest newspaper in Southern California.
February 1, 1873 - Jesse Yarnell, T. J. Caystile and Samuel J. Mathes published Los Angeles Weekly Mirror advertising sheet; printed by Mirror Printing Office and Book Bindery; December 4, 1881 - Nathan Cole Jr. & Thomas Gardiner launched Los Angeles Daily Times, went bankrupt; January 1, 1882 - Mathes assumed editorial control; August 1, 1882 - former Union army lieutenant colonel Harrison Gray Otis assumed Times editorship and part control ( bought a quarter interest in Los Angels Daily Times for $6,000); October 1884 - acquired holdings of Yarnell, A.W. Francisco; Colonel Henry H. Boyce acquired Mathes's interest; gained control of Mirror and Mirror's printing company; incorporated Times-Mirror Company; 1886 - Otis bought Boyce's half-interest in paper, named himself president, general manager, editor-in-chief; 1891 - Weekly Mirror incorporated with Saturday Times, became Los Angeles Saturday Times & Weekly Mirror; 1965 - first newspaper to publish over 4 million classified advertisements in one year, first US newspaper to publish over 100 million lines of advertising in year; 1970 - bought controlling interest in Newsday; 1979 - acquired Hartford (Connecticut) Courant; 1980 - acquired Denver Post for $95 million; 1986 - acquired Baltimore Sun, Evening Sun, WMAR-TV for $600 million; June 2000 - acquired by Tribune Company (Chicago Tribune) in $8.3 billion takeover.
1874 - San Diego Chamber of Commerce published its first City Directory; included 22 photgraphs, promoted \New San Diego as a place to live, listed schools, churches, lodges, downtown businesses.
February 21, 1874 - George Stanford and Benet A. Dewes founded Oakland Daily Tribune as 6" by 10", four-page daily; July 24, 1876 - acquired by William E. Dargie; created The Tribune Publishing Company, widened paper's news scope, used newspaper wire services to provide stories from around world; August 28, 1891 - name Oakland Tribune officially adopted; November 14, 1915 - first issue under new publisher, Joseph R. Knowland, former five-term Congressman; January 4, 1928 - founded The Tribune Publishing Corporation; 1977 - acquired by Karl Eller's Combined Communications Corporation; 1979 - acquired by Gannett in merger with Combined; April 30, 1983 - acquired for $22 million in management-led leveraged buyout led by Robert C. Maynard (editor since 1979); first in U.S. newspaper history; became first major metropolitan newspaper owned by an African American; October 15, 1992 - eroding circulation, advertising forced sale; acquired for $10 million by Alameda Newspaper Group, publisher of several competing suburban community newspapers.
April 17, 1879 - First issue of The Sonoma Index published; changed owners 13 times; 1884 - acquired by Harry H. Granice; renamed The Sonoma Index-Tribune; 1915 - Celeste, Ramona (daughters) took over; 1946 - Robert Lynch (grandson, Ramona's son) took over; 2003 - Bill, Jim Lynch (great grandsons) assumed control.
December 4, 1881 - Los Angels Daily Times published first four-page issue.
March 4, 1887 - William Randolph Hearst (23) took over San Francisco Daily Examiner from his father (George acquired paper in October 1880); 1895 - bought New York Morning Journal; 1903 - started his first magazine, Motor; 1905 - bought Cosmopolitan; 1911 - acquired Good Housekeeping; 1915 - formed King Features Syndicate to consolidate comics syndication business; 1929 - started Hearst Metrotone News (newsreel company); 1948 - acquired WBAL-TV (Baltimore), one of country's first TV stations; 1965 - Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle printed, distributed under joint operating agreement (JOA); 1997 - formed Hearst-Argyle Television, nation's second largest non-network-owned television station group; August 6, 1999 - acquired San Francisco Chronicle; 2007 - 20,0000 employees, six operating groups; world's largest publisher of monthly magazines.
November 11, 1887 - Richard Gird, founder City of Chino, founded The Chino Champion newspaper; prior to 1897 - acquired by Edwin Rhodes; 1906 - sold paper; 1909 - acquired by Ralph Homan (operated local store with his father); 1920 - acquired by Nebraska newspaperman, Elmer Howell Sr. (later joined by Charles Frady, his brother-in-law, nephew E.R. (Bob) Frady; 1949-1956 - three publishers; October 1, 1956 - acquired by Allen P. McCombs right out of Navy service (became Chairman of Champion Publications of Chino, Inc., Publisher Emeritus); 1988 - Chino Hills News added; August 4, 1994 - Champion combined its paid and free newspapers into once a week Chino and Chino Hills editions, distributed on Thursday; 2000 - Bruce M. Wood, former Champion general manager, returned as co-publisher; July 2004 - converted to digital pagination; October 7, 2006 - Wood named publisher of Champion Newspapers; oldest continuously operated business in the Chino Valley; one of few independent weekly newspapers left in Southern California.
June 3, 1888 - San Francisco Daily Examiner published Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem ''Casey at the Bat.''
May 1898 - Southern Pacific Railroad, largest landowner in California, launched first-ever Western magazine, Sunset Magazine (named in honor of Sunset Limited railroad line) to "chronicle the world of the West over which the dawn of future commercial and industrial importance is just beginning"; first issue contained just 16 pages, ran stories on wonders of Yosemite, beautiful, garden-filled streets of Los Angeles; made good things about Western living seem accessible, possible for masses; 1928 - acquired by Lane Publishing Co.; 1990- acquired by Time Warner.
1908 - Stanley Larson founded The Claremont Courier in Claremont, CA; 1929-1954 - newspaper delivered in Model A; 1955 - acquired by Martin and Janis Weinberger.
1913 - A.O. Reed, B.B. Harlan, P.A. Depue established La Jolla Journal, weekly newspaper.
1918 - Les Kelley (21) leased part of lot from another car dealer in Los Angeles, started Kelley Kar Company with three Model T Fords for sale, $450, brother(Buster) as apprentice; became largest dealership in world; early 1920s - distributed to other dealers, banks a list of automobiles he wished to buy, prices he was willing to pay; spawned need to place value on used, new cars; 1926 - expanded list of automobile values, published first Blue Book of Motor Car Values (named after Social Register, meant valuable information inside); showed factory list price, cash value on thousands of vehicles (Cadillacs, Duesenbergs, Pierce-Arrows, Hupmobiles); became authoritative source for car values; 1962 - exited car business, published Blue Book as "trade" publication (sold only to businesses involved in automotive industry - car dealers, financial institutions, insurance companies); first publication to show effect of high or low mileage on car's value; December 9, 1980 - Kelley Blue Book Partnership registered "Kelley Blue Book" trademark first used November 1, 1954 (Booklets in the Nature of Price Lists for Used Cars, New Cars, Mobile Homes, and Motorcycles); 1966 - began publishing other value guides; industry's leading provider of pricing services; 1993 - published Consumer Edition of Blue Book (15 years of used car values on more than 10,000 models of cars, trucks, vans); 1995 - launched web site.
November 6, 1935 - The Clear Lake Observer debuted; 1944 - merged with Clear Lake American; published since as Clear Lake Observer*American; 2001 - acquired by Denver-based Media News Group.
February 14, 1938 - Hedda Hopper's first gossip column appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
January 8, 1941 - William Randolph Hearst, owner of Hearst newspaper chain, forbid any of his newspapers from accepting ads for Orson Welles's Citizen Kane movie; film generally interpreted as psychological study of Hearst, portrayed as fictional Charles Foster Kane; March 1941 - Welles threatened to sue Hearst for trying to suppress film, RKO if it failed to release film.; May 1, 1941 - film premiered at RKO Palace in New York; became one of most highly regarded films of all time.
1971 - Philip Wood left senior sales post at Penguin Books launched Ten Speed Press on strength of one title, “Anybody’s Bike Book”; inspired company’s name, sold more than million copies; 1983 - acquired Celestial Arts, poster and New Age book publisher; 1993 - formed Tricycle Press, children’s division; 2002 - acquired Crossing Press, specialized in metaphysics, alternative lifestyles, healing modalities; one of largest, bestselling independent publishers in United States (100+ new titles published under four imprints each year); March 2, 2009 - acquired by Random House (became part of Crown Publishing Group).
March 12, 2006 - Knight Ridder (San Jose CA), second largest newspaper company in the U.S., $3 billion in sales, 16.4% operating profit margin, publisher of 32 daily newspapers, agreed to be acquired for about $4.5 billion by McClatchy Company (Sacramento, CA), $1.2 billion in revenue, 22.8 % operating profit margin, publisher of 12 dailies (in contrast Times Mirror Co. acquired the Tribune company for $8 billion in 2000).
(Colt Press), William Matson Roth (2004). The Colt Springs High A Publishing Memoir of the Colt Press 1938-1942. (San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California). Colt Press; Roth, William Matson; Grabhorn , Jane. Collaboration with Jane Grabhorn on unique publishing venture called Colt Press; pre-war era in San Francisco full of literary ferment, printing innovation, irrepressible spirit of fun.
(Hearst), John K. Winkler (1928). W.R. Hearst, an American Phenomenon. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 354 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Journalism--United States.
(Hearst), John W. Tebbel (1952). The Life and Good Times of William Randolph Hearst. (New York, NY: Dutton, 386 p.). William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951).
(Hearst), John K. Winkler (1955). William Randolph Hearst, a New Appraisal. (New York, NY: Hastings House, 325 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951.
(Hearst), W. A. Swanberg (1961). Citizen Hearst, A Biography of William Randolph Hearst. (New York, NY: Scribner, 555 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History.
(Hearst), Oliver Carlson and Ernest Sutherland Bates (1970). Hearst, Lord of San Simeon. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 332 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History; Hearst-San Simeon State Historical Monument (Calif.).
(Hearst), Ferdinand Lundberg With a preface by Charles A. Beard (1970). Imperial Hearst; A Social Biography. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 406 p. [Reprint 1936 ed.]). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History.
(Hearst), Mrs. Fremont Older. With a foreword by Fremont Older (1972). William Randolph Hearst, American. (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 581 p. [orig. pub. 1936]). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History.
(Hearst), Rodney P. Carlisle (1979). Hearst and the New Deal--The Progressive as Reactionary. (New York, NY: Garland Pub., 228 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; New Deal, 1933-1939; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History; United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
(Hearst), Roy Everett Littlefield III (1980). William Randolph Hearst, His Role in American Progressivism. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 391 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History; Progressivism (United States politics); United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.
(Hearst), Lindsay Chaney, Michael Cieply (1981). The Hearsts: Family and Empire: The Later Years. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 410 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 --Family; Hearst family; Hearst Corporation; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History--20th century.
(Hearst), Judith Robinson (1991). The Hearsts: An American Dynasty. (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 441 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 --Family; Hearst family; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History.
(Hearst), William Randolph Hearst, Jr. with Jack Casserly (1991). The Hearsts: Father and Son. (Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 372 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Hearst, William Randolph, 1908- ; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History; Journalists--United States--Biography.
(Hearst), Ian Mugridge (1995). The Vew from Xanadu: William Randolph Hearst and United States Foreign Policy. (Montreal, QU: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 220 p.). Hearst, William Randolph 1863-1951 --Influence; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Press and politics--United States--History--20th century.
(Hearst), Ben Procter (1998). William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 345 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History--19th century; Newspaper publishing--United States--History--20th century.
(Hearst), David Nasaw (2000). The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 687 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--History--19th century; Newspaper publishing--United States--History--20th century. Winner of Bancroft Prize, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.
(Hearst), John F. Dunlap (2002). The Hearst Saga: The Way It Really Was. (Medford, OR: J.F. Dunlap, 923 p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 --Family; Hearst family; Hearst, George, 1820-1891; Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-191.; Davies, Marion, 1897-1961; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Newspaper publishing--United States--Biography.
(Hearst), Louis Pizzitola (2002). Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, p.). Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951; Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography; Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History.
(Hearst), Cathleen Black (2007). Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life). (New York, NY: Crown, 304 p.). Head of Hearst Magazines. Black, Cathie; Career development; Interpersonal communication; Success in business; Publishers and publishing--Vocational guidance. How she achieved "the 360° life" (blend of professional accomplishment, personal contentment); how women can seize opportunity in workplace.
(Investor's Business Daily), David Saito-Chung (2004). Investor's Business Daily and the Making of Millionaires: How IBD Rewrote the Rules of Investing and Business News. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 162 p.). Investor's Business Daily; Journalism, Commercial--United States.
(San Francisco Chronicle), Anonymous (2007). The San Francisco Chronicle and Its History. The Story of Its Foundation, the Struggles of Its Early Life, Its Well-Earned Successes. The New Chronicle Building, the Edifice and Machinery Described, Comments of the Press. (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 60 p. [orig. pub. 1879]). The San Francisco Chronicle.
(San Francisco Chronicle), Simon Read (2009). War of Words: A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder. (New York, NY: Union Square Press, 320 p.). De Young, Charles, 1845-1880; Kalloch, I. S. (Isaac Smith), 1831-1887; San Francisco chronicle; Newspaper editors --California --San Francisco --Biography; Mayors --California --San Francisco --Biography; San Francisco (Calif.) --History --19th century. Early, violent history of San Francisco Chronicle, scandalous events that lead to assassination of founding publisher, Charles de Young (feud between de Young, and Isaac Kalloch, golden-tongued preacher with tainted past).
(Talisman Press), Robert Greenwood (2007). A Valiant Enterprise, A History of the Talisman Press, 1951-1993, Printers, Publishers, and Antiquarian Booksellers. (San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 383 p.). Co-Founder, Talisman Press. Talisman Press, Greenwood, Robert; Baird, Newton. Evolution of book-related adventures of Robert Greenwood, Newton Baird, founders - quarterly poetry magazine (1952), publishing (1958), discovered 'ghost' book, established non-profit arm (Talisman Literary Research), became book dealers.
(Times Mirror), Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt (1977). Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers, and Their Influence on Southern California. (New York, NY: Putnam, 603 p.). Los Angeles times.
(Times Mirror), Jack R. Hart (1981). The Information Empire: The Rise of the Los Angeles Times and the Times Mirror Corporation. (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 410 p.). Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles times.
(Times Mirror), Marshall Berges (1984). The Life and Times of Los Angeles: A Newspaper, a Family, and a City. (New York, NY: Atheneum, 304 p.). Los Angeles Times.
(Times Mirror), Andrew Krieg (1988). Spiked: How Chain Management Corrupted America's Oldest Newspaper. (Old Saybrook, CT: Peregrine Press, 245 p. [2nd ed.]). Times Mirror company--History; Hartford courant--History; American newspapers--Ownership; Press monopolies--United States--History; Investigative reporting--United States; American newspapers--Objectivity.\
(Times Mirror), Dennis McDougal (2001). Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty. (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 526 p.). Former Reporter (Los Angeles Times). Times Mirror company--History; Los Angeles Times.
(Times Mirror), Margaret Leslie Davis (2007). The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 490 p.). Murphy, Franklin D., 1916-; University of California, Los Angeles -- Officials and employees -- Biography; Times Mirror Company -- Officials and employees -- Biography; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Cultural policy; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century; Arts -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Museums -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Cosmopolitanism -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Charities -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century. Influenced academia, media, cultural foundations to reshape fundamentally provincial city.
(University of California Press), Albert Muto (1993). The University of California Press: The Early Years, 1893-1953. (Berkeley, CA: The Press, 300 p.). University of California Press--History; University presses--California--Berkeley--History; Scholarly publishing--California--Berkeley--History.
(University of California Press), August Frugé (1993). A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 365 p.). Director Emeritus of the University of California Press. Frugé, August, 1909- ; University of California Press--History; University presses--California--Berkeley--History--20th century; Publishers and publishing--California--Berkeley--Biography.
(Wired), Gary Wolf (2003). Wired: A Romance. (New York, NY: Random House, 282 p.). Former Executive Editor of HotWired. Rossetto, Louis; Wired (San Francisco, Calif.); Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography; Businesspeople--United States--Biography; Mass media--United States; Internet industry--United States; Online information services industry--United States.
John Roberts Bruce (1948). Gaudy Century, The Story of San Francisco’s Hundred Years of Robust Journalism. With an introd. by Joseph Henry Jackson. (New York, NY: Random House, 302 p.). American newspapers --California --San Francisco --History; San Francisco (Calif.) --History.
George L. Henderson (1999). California & The Fictions of Capital. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 265 p.). Assistant Professor of Geography and Regional Development (University of Arizona). American literature--California--History and criticism; Authors, American--Homes and haunts--California; Capitalism and literature--California; Capital--California--History; California--Historical geography; California--Economic conditions; California--In literature.
Rob Leicester Wagner (2000). Red Ink, White lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920-1962. (Upland, CA: Dragonflyer Press 357 p.). American newspapers --California --Los Angeles --History --20th century; Journalism --California --Los Angeles --History --20th century.
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Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument
Second largest private home in the country housing the collection of publisher William Randolph Hearst. Includes gardens, statues, interior collection of ceilings, paintings, furniture, carpets. Over 70,000 objects of art on display. Take a Tour! Near Big Sur.
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