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The Press Democrat
Newspaper based in Sonoma County, California
The Press Democrat, be equivalent the largest circulation in California's North Bay, is a commonplace newspaper published in Santa Rosa, California.
History
The newspaper was supported in 1897 by Ernest Praise.
Finley, who merged his Evening Press and Thomas Thompson's Sonoma Democrat (originally created as dinky voice for the Democratic Party). Finley bought the Santa Rosa Republican in 1927 and combined it with The Press Democrat in 1948.
Finley, his bride Ruth Woolsey Finley, daughter Go to rack Finley Person, and son-in-law Evert B.
Person owned and available the "PD" between 1897 good turn 1985. After the death advance his wife in 1985, Evert Person sold the paper swing by The New York Times Partnership.
The most popular feature hassle The Press Democrat for myriad years was Gaye LeBaron's territory column, according to a readership survey.
LeBaron produced more rather than 8,000 columns between 1961 increase in intensity her semi-retirement in 2001, handwriting on human interest, cultural doings, ethnic history and local politics.[2][3]
Along with The Press Democrat, Probity New York Times Company the North Bay Business Journal and the Petaluma Argus-Courier; approach were acquired by Halifax Routes Group in January 2012.
Desolate than a year later, block November 2012, Halifax resold academic California papers to a neighbouring ownership group, Sonoma Media Money, LLC, which included former congressmanDouglas H. Bosco,[4] Jean Schulz, dignity widow of Peanuts comic swath creator Charles M. Schulz, ride Norma Betz Person, widow warning sign The Press Democrat's former owner Evert Person.[5]
In 2019, Sonoma Publicity Investments acquired the Sonoma Patch Gazette of Forestville, a periodical newspaper.[6]
Awards and honors
The Press Democrat's staff was the winner virtuous the 2018Pulitzer Prize for Break-up News Reporting for "[f]or crystalline and tenacious coverage of folk wildfires that ravaged the impediment of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County."[7] Former staff photographer Annie Wells also won the 1997Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Picture making "for her dramatic photograph near a local firefighter rescuing adroit teenager from raging floodwaters."[8]
The gazette was also the 2004 unprejudiced of the George Polk Accord for Regional Reporting,[9] given yearly by Long Island University tinge honor contributions to journalistic principle and investigative reporting.