The Mendocino Beacon is a weekly newspaper for the community of Mendocino, California, owned by MediaNews Group.[3]
 The Mendocino Beacon sign still hangs on the newspaper's original home at 45062 Ukiah St., Mendocino | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | MediaNews Group, Digital First Media |
| Publisher | K.C. Meadows [1] |
| Editor | Robin Epley |
| Founded | October 1877 |
| Headquarters | Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California |
| Circulation | 2,400[2] |
| Website | mendocinobeacon |
History
The Mendocino Beacon was founded on October 6, 1877 by W. H. Meacham and William Heeser,[4][5][6][7] an immigrant from Germany who also founded the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and three other local newspapers in Kibesillah, Rockport, and Westport.[8] It succeeded the Star, a local newspaper that had been founded previously by M. J. C. Galvin.[7] In an 1878 catalog of North American newspapers the Beacon was advertised as "an independent and vigorous weekly journal, published at a point of rising importance as a place of shipping and trade."[9] From 1975 to 1977 it was published under an alternative name, the Mendocino Coast Beacon.[6]
In 2000, the newspaper offices moved from Mendocino to Fort Bragg, ten miles north of Mendocino, and consolidated with the offices of the Fort Bragg Advocate-News.[10]
Recognition
In the 2009 California Newspaper Publishers Association's "Better Newspaper Contest", the Mendocino Beacon won first place in its circulation category for a business/financial story, for a story on Heritage House by Frank Hartzell.[11] It has also won similar awards in previous years.[12][13][14][15]
References
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