What are the big news papers in Northern CA?

In My Humble Opinion
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Do Northern Californians mostly read the local papers or the bigger papers from San Francisco and Sacramento?

In towns like Eureka, Redding, Chico…

Or is it USA Today?

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We have local papers, and that’s mostly what gets read in homes. Then there’s the Sacramento Bee and the SF Chronicle–some people subscribe, some get the Sunday papers, and the library carries them. I don’t know anyone who reads USA Today, but it is sold around town so I suppose someone does.

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I read The Press Democrat every day, based here in Santa Rosa. According to its site, it’s ‘the largest newspaper between San Francisco and the Oregon border.’

But I also read SFGate, NYT, Washington Post and like 5 other news sites every day, so it’s not my only news source, just my local one.

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Thanks for the responses.

I’m doing a small, unscientific media research project (for money), even though I don’t know much about media research. My post was made when I was still gathering my thoughts… and eventually I realized that small local papers were a better target for the project than larger, more distant, papers. And the two responses here reinforce that.

Now I just have to figure out what people read in tiny villages in the Sierra Valley, 40 miles north of Lake Tahoe.

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My sister lives in Greenhorn, which is just east of Quincy, but before that lived in Graeagle, and before that, Portola, all of which are at the north end, or close to, of the Sierra Valley. I would guess that some people read the SF Chron, some the Sacto Bee, and others the Reno paper. Reno is a lot easier to get to from there than any other majorish market. It feels fairly libretarian, and I suspect that more than a few folks don’t pay much attention to any big city paper, and might read the local weekly.

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We have family friends that live in Twain Harte, California. (I love it up there!) I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this paper lying around their house.

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This might be of interest to you…a post and comments from San Jose Inside discussing the MediaNews bankruptcy:

Former San Jose Mercury exec discusses Media News bankruptcy

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Most rural areas in northern California have a local paper which publishes the local news 1-2x/week. For many years I read the Amador Ledger-Dispatch for the local scoop and the Sacramento Bee for “real” news. (Now the Bee is my local paper…)

I can’t find any evidence that there even is a local paper in Sierra Valley - not enough population to support one. I believe folks in Loyalton mostly read the Reno Gazette; The Quincy paper appears to consider Portola part of its coverage area.

Here is a list of newspapers in California that might be useful to you.

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FYI: the biggest papers north of Sacromento:

Redding Record Searchlight - 30,000

Chico Enterprise-Record - 22,500

(Eureka) Times-Standard - 20,000

This site gives circulation numbers for California Papers

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Thanks blondebear, I hadn’t seen that story yet. Hopefully that won’t undo work I’ve already done.

Thanks for the list twoflower. That site might come in handy. Right now I’m jumping between Google Maps, various Wikipedia articles, and mondonewspapers.com.

We’ll see. Gotta get busy.