Del Norte Triplicate
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Del Norte Triplicate
| image =
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| type = Weekly newspaper
| format =
| foundation = 1879
| owners = Country Media, Inc.
| publisher = Joe Warren
| language = English
| headquarters = P.O. Box 277, Crescent City, California, United States
| sister newspapers = Curry Coastal Pilot
| website = {{URL|triplicate.com}}
}}
The Del Norte Triplicate is an American paid newspaper which serves the city of Crescent City and surrounding Del Norte County.{{Cite web|url=http://gotoanr.com/documents/database/california.pdf|title=Research Newspapers by State: California |website=gotoanr.com|last=Stevenson|first=Paula|publisher=American Newspaper Representatives|language=en|access-date=21 February 2018}} It is published weekly on Fridays.
History
The Del Norte Daily Triplicate traces its roots back to 1879, starting as the Del Norte Record.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/porcupinepicayun00bern_0|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/porcupinepicayun00bern_0/page/166 166]|quote=Del Norte Daily Triplicate.|title=Porcupine, Picayune, and Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names|last=Bernhard|first=Jim|date=2007|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=9780826266019|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27715855/del_norte_record/|title=Del Norte Record|date=1889-10-20|work=The San Francisco Examiner|access-date=2019-01-27|pages=33}} The Record was established by J. E. Eldredge, edited by George Leon, and was the official paper of Del Norte County.
The name Del Norte Daily Triplicate comes from the names of three papers that united in 1912—the Coast Times, Del Norte Record, and Crescent City News.{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93052968/|title=Del Norte triplicate.|access-date=2019-01-27}} The term comes not from the term used for carbon copies, but from the original Latin triplicare, meaning "a third thing corresponding to others of the same kind."
In 1913, W.H. McMaster left the Palladium and became editor and manager of the Del Norte Triplicate.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24727737/editor_goes_to_california/|title=Editor Goes to California|date=10 February 1913|work=Grand Forks Herald}}
John A. Juza purchased the Triplicate in December 1922, updating the press to a linotype machine.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFMxAQAAMAAJ&dq=crescent+city+Daily+Triplicate&pg=RA2-PA26|title=The Oregon Exchange|last=Grammell|first=Fred A.|date=1922|publisher=F.A. Grammell|language=en}} Prior to joining the Triplicate, Juza had been publisher of The Reporter in Oregon. John Juza and his wife Ella Mae ran the paper for 30 years until their retirement.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24727623/juza_ella_mae/|title=Juza, Ella Mae|date=1 Oct 1974|work=The Times Standard}}
In 1956, the paper broke with longstanding tradition of withholding names of arrested minors from print, making its policy to print them even for minor infractions.{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HTES19560426.2.120&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Del+Norte+%22Triplicate%22+newspaper-------1|title=Another Newspaper Breaks Tradition|date=26 April 1956
|work=Healdsburg Tribune}}
In 1964, the Triplicate was completely destroyed in the wake of a tidal wave caused by a major Alaskan earthquake.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24727316/forces_rallying_to_restore_crippled_del/|title=Forces Rallying to Restore Crippled Del Norte Chamber|date=3 April 1964|work=Eureka Humboldt Standard}} Bill Soberanes of the Petaluma Argus-Courier reported that "The building in which this newspaper had been published (up until the tidal wave) was hit by the full blast of the tidal wave. Every copy of the newspaper printed the day before was washed away. The two linotypes were flooded over and rendered useless by the onrushing ocean waves."{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24727030/safari_to_crescent_city/|title=Safari to Crescent City|date=1 April 1964|work=The Petaluma Argus-Courier}} The tidal wave, which did significant damage to Crescent City with a 21-foot wave traveling 500 miles per hour, killed 11 people in the city. The Triplicate's editor, James J. Yarbrough recalled, "There was eight feet of water in my office. I watched from up the street and saw the sparks fly when the water hit the Linotype machine. I saw a 900-pound roll of newsprint bobbing around like a spool."{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24728111/the_killer_wave_remembered/|title=The Killer Wave Remembered|date=5 Nov 1978|work=The San Francisco Examiner}} After the destruction, the Triplicate moved its printing headquarters to Humboldt County.
The move to Humboldt County called into question the paper's designation as a paper of record for Del Norte County. In 1965, Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch ruled that the paper could still be considered a general circulation paper for Del Norte County, despite its removed printing location.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24727432/newspaper_is_given_general_circulation/|title=Newspaper Is Given General Circulation|date=4 Nov 1965|work=The Press-Tribune}}
In 1988, the newspaper was sold to Western Communications.{{Cite news |date=January 8, 1988 |title=Newspaper Purchased |work=The Oregonian |pages=14}} The company owned the paper until 2019 when the Triplicate was acquired by Country Media, Inc.{{Cite web |author=Staff Report |date=January 24, 2020 |title=Country Media adds to its publications |url=https://www.currypilot.com/news/country-media-adds-to-its-publications/article_23718724-3ed1-11ea-b353-cb0617f458ac.html |accessdate=2020-04-05 |work=Curry Pilot}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2019-07-02 |title=Country Media buys Del Norte Triplicate |url=https://cnpa.com/country-media-buys-del-norte-triplicate/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=California News Publishers Association |language=en-US}}
Awards
In 2017, the Del Norte Triplicate won 2nd place in the Breaking News category in its division of the California's Better Newspapers Contest.{{Cite web|url=https://cnpa.com/bnc/|title=Better Newspapers Contest winners announced|date=20 May 2017|website=California News Publishers Association|access-date=19 October 2018}}