Gilroy Dispatch

The Gilroy Dispatch traces its lineage to the Gilroy Advocate, which published from September 12, 1868, to April 28, 1949.{{cite web

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In 1925, John N. Hall and Thomas Losey started the competing The Advocate, a six-day daily.{{cite web

| url =http://www.sourisseauacademy.org/Publications/historicaldirectory.pdf

| title =Historical Directory of Santa Clara County Newspapers 1850-1972

| last =Wheeler

| first =Jean French

| date =November 1973

| website =sourisseauacademy.org

| publisher =Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History, San Jose State University

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

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In 1930, Hall sold his interest in the Dispatch to Lloyd E. Smith,{{cite web

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| title =Former Woodland Man Sells Paper!

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| date =February 21, 1930

| website =Newspapers.com

| publisher =Woodland Daily Democrat

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

}} who also bought the Advocate and merged it with the Gilroy Evening Dispatch. Smith published the Dispatch until 1939.{{cite web

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|title = Historic Resources Inventory, The Chick House

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|date = April 1988

|website = cityofgilroy.org

|publisher = State of California

|accessdate = April 21, 2014

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George R. Kane, Patrick H. Peabody and Joseph Hoeteling purchased The Dispatch in 1949 from George W. Werner, its publisher since 1941. Kane's group sold the publication to Jerry Fuchs and Millard Hoyle in March 1972. McClatchy Newspapers Inc. purchased it from Fuchs and Hoyle in August 1978. At the time of the sale, it published three days a week and had a reported circulation of 6500.{{cite web

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| title =Gilroy Dispatch Sale Announced

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| page =10

| date =August 22, 1978

| website =Newspapers.com

| publisher =Santa Cruz Sentinel

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

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On February 28, 1997, McClatchy sold the Dispatch, along with the Hollister Free Lance, the Morgan Hill Times and the Amador Ledger, for $6.7 million to Independent Newspapers Ltd. of New Zealand. McClatchy's filing with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission reported a combined daily circulation of approximately 10,150, weekly circulation of 12,800 and $7.5 million in annual revenues for the year preceding the sale.{{cite web

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|title = The McClatchy Company Form 10-K Annual Report

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|date = Mar 30, 1998

|website = mcclatchy.com

|publisher = Security and Exchange Commission

|accessdate = April 21, 2014

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|archive-date = July 14, 2014

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}} Independent's largest shareholder was Australia-based News Ltd., controlled by billionaire publisher Rupert Murdoch.{{cite web

| url =http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/07.16.98/murdoch-9828.html

| title =Murdoch Era Ends at Good Times

| last =Yewell

| first =John

| date =July 16, 1998

| website =Metroactive.com

| publisher =Metro Santa Cruz

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

}}

The New Zealand group sold the papers in 1998 to Central Valley Publishing Holdings, Inc., an operator of 30 small market papers that was based in Festus, Missouri.{{cite web

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| archive-date =May 13, 2014

| title =Company Overview of Central Valley Publishing Holdings, Inc.

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| website =Businessweek.com

| publisher =Bloomberg Business Week

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

}} Michigan publishers Anthony Allegretti and Steve Staloch gained control of Central Valley's assets in a 2004 private equity-backed management buyout, assembling a group that included community newspapers in San Diego County, Santa Cruz, and California's Central Valley.{{cite web

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| title =Management Buyout Leads to New Company

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| date =January 1, 2004

| website =dirksvanessen.com

| publisher =Dirks, Van Essen & Murray

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

}} Staloch and Allegretti left the company in 2013 and controlling shareholder, The Brookside Group of Stamford, CT, put its California newspapers on the market, selling its San Diego group in November.{{cite web

| url =http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Nov/01/mainstreet-newspapers-lajollalight-delmartimes/

| title =U-T buys 8 local community newspapers

| last =Horn

| first =Jonathan

| date =Nov 1, 2013

| website =utsandiego.com

| publisher =U-T San Diego

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

}}{{cite web

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| title =Brookside Group-backed MainStreet Media sells four weeklies

| last =Witkowsky

| first =Chris

| date =April 1, 2014

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| publisher =PE Hub

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

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Silicon Valley–based Metro Newspapers, headed by Dan Pulcrano, purchased the Mainstreet's four remaining weeklies, including the Dispatch, in April 2014, marking the first time the Dispatch had been owned by a publisher based in the region in 36 years.{{cite web

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| title =Metro Newspapers buys weeklies in Santa Cruz, Gilroy, Morgan Hill and Hollister

| last =Baumann

| first =Greg

| date =Mar 31, 2014

| website =bizjournals.com

| publisher =Silicon Valley Business Journal

| accessdate =April 21, 2014

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The Dispatch and its sister paper, the Morgan Hill Times, launched South Valley magazine on July 15, 2016. The publication is home-delivered with the newspapers and distributed free at locations in the communities.{{cite news

| title =The Magazine of South Valley

| last =Pulcrano

| first =Dan

| date =July 15, 2016

| publisher =South Valley Magazine

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Its logo was drawn by typographer Mark Davis and art directed by Roger Black.{{cite web

| title =Designer Mark Davis

| last =Davis

| first =Mark

| date =July 15, 2016

| url = http://www.designermarkdavis.com/South-Valley

| publisher =South Valley Magazine

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After decades in a building at the south end of Monterey Street., the Dispatch returned to downtown in August 2016, moving its offices to 64 W 6th St.{{cite web

| url =https://gilroydispatch.com/gilroy-dispatch-returns-to-downtown/

| title = Gilroy Dispatch Returns to Downtown

| last =Hernandez-Cattani

| first =Roseann

| date =Aug 26, 2016

| website =gilroydispatch.com

| publisher =Gilroy Dispatch

| accessdate =May 25, 2024

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The Gilroy Dispatch won 11 awards over a broad range of news categories, including three first-place awards, in the 2004 annual California Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspapers Contest.{{cite web

| url =http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/community/dispatch-earns-state-journalism-cnpa-awards/article_485a98e4-950d-52d8-8aaa-e021f5b464b5.html

| title = Dispatch earns 11 state journalism CNPA awards

| date =July 19, 2004

| website =gilroydispatch.com

| publisher =Gilroy Dispatch

| accessdate =May 28, 2014

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It won two first place awards and four second place awards in the 2012 competition.{{cite web |date=April 29, 2013 |title=Dispatch recognized in CNPA's Better Newspaper Contest |url=http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/community/dispatch-recognized-in-cnpa-s-better-newspaper-contest/article_44068664-b117-11e2-ad43-001a4bcf6878.html |accessdate=May 28, 2014 |website=Gilroy Dispatch}}

In 2015, the Dispatch won awards for agricultural reporting and front page design.{{cite web

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|title = The Winners Tab

|date = April 30, 2016

|website = cnpa.com

|publisher = California Newspaper Publishers Association

|accessdate = Aug 31, 2016

|archive-date = August 12, 2016

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In 2019, the Dispatch was awarded First Place for General Excellence, the highest honor for California newspapers, by the California News Publishers Association. Dispatch writer Michael Moore won a second-place award for In-Depth Reporting for a 2018 series of stories on the death of Steven Juarez while in police custody.{{cite web |date=May 9, 2019 |title=Dispatch named best weekly of its size in CA |url=https://gilroydispatch.com/dispatch-named-best-weekly-of-its-size-in-ca/ |accessdate=Aug 17, 2024 |website=Gilroy Dispatch}}

In the 2022 California Journalism Awards, the newspaper earned first place for Editorial Comment for its June 23, 2022 column, “The March Toward Darkness,” about city efforts to reduce public notice requirements for city bids.{{cite web |date=May 25, 2023 |title=Gilroy Dispatch honored in state journalism awards |url=https://gilroydispatch.com/gilroy-dispatch-honored-state-journalism-awards/ |accessdate=Aug 17, 2024 |website=Gilroy Dispatch}}

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