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The Daily Times-Advocate, also called the Escondido Times-Advocate, was a daily newspaper published in Escondido, California.[2] It formed after The Escondido Times (1886) and The Escondido Advocate (1891) merged in 1909. After the paper was acquired by Howard Publications in 1995, the Times-Advocate merged with the Oceanside Blade-Citizen to form the North County Times. U-T San Diego acquired the Times in 2012 and fully absorbed it after a year.

Daily Times-Advocate
Front page of the Aug. 22, 1912 edition.
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
OwnerThe San Diego Union-Tribune
FounderMajor Amasa S. Lindsa
Founded1886 (as The Escondido Times)
Ceased publication
2013 (as North County Times)
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersEscondido, California
Sister newspapers
The Temecula Californian
Fallbrook Enterprise[1]

History

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Origins (1886-1909)

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On November 4, 1886, Major Amasa S. Lindsay and R.R. Beavers founded The Escondido Times.[3][4] At some point Beavers left. In 1887, Captain James Trownsell became a co-owner.[5] In 1889, Lindsay retired from active management of the Times.[6] In 1891, Alvin D. Dunn founded The Escondido Advocate. It was affiliated with the Farmers' Alliance.[7]

In 1892, Lindsay fully cut ties from the Times and sold out to Trownsell.[8][9] A month later Charles K. Holmburg assumed control of the paper.[10] In 1902, Holmburg leased the Times to Payton W. Estes after moving to Chicago.[11] He planned to resume control of the paper after two years. Instead, in 1905, Holmburg sold the Times to Lindsay and Lynn W. Miller.[12] A year later Lindsay assumed full control.[13][14]

In 1908, Lindsay died.[15][16] His widow Josephine then assumed control,[17] until the Times was sold at public auction to G.C. Wharton for $1,795.[18]

Post-merger (1909-1995)

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On January 1, 1909, the two papers merged to form the Weekly Times-Advocate.[19][20] This happened after Dunn sold the Advocate to a syndicate.[21]

In 1911, the paper installed an automated typesetting Linotype machine.[22] In 1912, J.N. Turrentine sold the Weekly Times-Advocate to Ernest W. White and Percy Evans.[23] The two then expanded the paper from a weekly into a daily called the Daily Times-Advocate.[24][25] In 1914, White sold out and acquired an interest in the Madera Mercury.[26]

Evans continued to publish the paper for decades until 1946, when he sold the paper to Herbert R. McClintock and Frederick W. Speers. McClintock was the paper's advertising manager and Speers previously published the North Platt Daily Bulletin in Nebraska.[27]

In 1965, The Daily Report Company, former publishers of The Daily Report, purchased the shares of Frederick W. Speers and Mrs. Hattie Smithers. The company bought out McClintock a few years earlier. Andrew B. Appleby then became publisher.[28] A year later his brother Carlton R. Appleby was named publisher.[29]

In 1977, the Appleby family sold the paper to Tribune Publishing, publishers of the Chicago Tribune. At time the Times-Advocate's circulation was 28,612.[30] In 1988, Tribune purchased four nearby papers from Marmack Publishing Co., which was owned by Mrs. Marian F. Mack. The sale included The Californian in Temecula and Fallbrook Enterprise.[31][32]

In 1990, the Times-Advocate was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Explanatory Journalism for its coverage of a shooting spree by an Escondido mail carrier and an examination of the challenges faced by Postal Service workers.[33]

North County Times (1995-2013)

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In 1995, Tribune Publishing sold its Southern California holdings, including its largest one, the Times-Advocate, to Howard Publications. At the time of the sale, the Times-Advocate had a circulation of 40,000.[34] Following the sale, the Times-Advocate, The Californian, and the Fallbrook Enterprise were merged with North County Blade-Citizen of Oceanside to form the North County Times.[35] The Times originally published nine local zoned editions,[36][37] while another edition serving Southwest Riverside County retained The Californian masthead.[38]

The is the nameplate of the North County Times, used from 1995 to 2009.

In 2002, Howard was acquired by Lee Enterprises.[39] In 2008, amid the Great Recession, 10% of staff were laid off, including 25 reporters and editors.[40] In 2012, Doug Manchester, owner of U-T San Diego, bought the North County Times for $11.95 million.[38][41] A third of staff was then laid off.[42] Subsequently, the print edition of the Times and The California became local editions of U-T called U-T North County Times and U-T Californian.[43]

In January 2013, the Times' website, including its digital archive, was taken offline. The URL was redirected to U-T.[44] In March 2013, the separate U-T North County Times name was dropped and a U-T North County edition produced, which further integrated the U-T with North County-specific pages, while eliminating differences between the two. Previously, both the U-T North County Times and the regular U-T were sold side by side at newsstands.[45]

In May 2013, U-T Californian was terminated, and it was also reported that the distinct content of the North County edition was being de-emphasized, marking an end to the Times.[46][47] In September 2013, the Times' 4-acre warehouse and office facility in Escondido was sold for $7 million to the Classical Academy charter school.[48][49]

Revival attempts

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In May 2014, two locals launched a monthly bilingual tabloid called the Escondido Alliance, the town's first paper since the Times closed.[50] In August 2014, real estate broker Kelly Crews started another monthly paper in Escondido called The Times-Advocate, which the name had fallen into public domain.[51] In 2016, Crews sold The Times-Advocate to Justin Salter, owner of the revived Valley Roadrunner. Crews also sold his paper's Valley Center edition, which was absorbed into Salter's paper.[52]

Former staff and contributors

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In 1979 photographer Len Lahman quit his job at the Los Angeles Times to begin a one-year personal project documenting the lives of California's migrant workers and the toll their living and working conditions had taken on them. His photo essay, pioneering for its time, was rejected by numerous publications, including National Geographic. He finally found a publisher in the Times-Advocate who ran it in 1980 as a 16-page supplement entitled Faces Beyond the Border. The following year, Lehman won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for the piece.[53] A 1987–1988 series of stories by Catherine Spearnak for the Times-Advocate and San Diego Magazine on the unsolved murders of San Diego women involved in prostitution led to the establishment of San Diego's multi-agency Metropolitan Homicide Task Force.[54]

Other staff or contributors who worked for the newspaper in their early careers include:

  • James W. Huston (1953–2016), lawyer and author known for his military and legal thrillers who wrote op-eds for the Times-Advocate in the early 1990s[55]
  • Mary Jacobus (1957–2009), newspaper executive and former manager of the Boston Globe who was director of sales and marketing at the Times-Advocate in the 1980s[56][57]
  • Armen Keteyian (1953–), journalist and author who worked as a sports and feature writer for the paper from 1978 to 1980[58]
  • Jim Toomey (1960–), whose comic strip Sherman's Lagoon was first published in the Times-Advocate in 1991 and went on to national syndication[59]

References

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  1. ↑ Greg Johnson (August 11, 1988). "The Times-Advocate Co. on Wednesday". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  2. ↑ Covey, Stephen A. (2008). Early Escondido: The Louis A. Havens Collection, p. 54. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0738555959
  3. ↑ "Notice". The Record. National City, California. November 11, 1886. p. 2.
  4. ↑ "Another Newspaper". Los Angeles Herald. November 16, 1886. p. 4.
  5. ↑ "Notice". The Daily San Diegan. December 17, 1887. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Notice". The Weekly San Diegan. July 25, 1889. p. 2.
  7. ↑ "City And County". The Weekly Sun. San Diego, California. May 28, 1891. p. 3.
  8. ↑ "Notice". Ramona Sentinel. June 16, 1892. p. 1.
  9. ↑ "Notice". Otay Press. Chula Vista, California. July 18, 1889. p. 2.
  10. ↑ "Along The Coast". The San Francisco Call Bulletin. August 6, 1892. p. 4.
  11. ↑ "Escondido Times | Charles K. Holmberg is Succeeded by Payton W. Estes". The Weekly San Diegan-Sun. August 7, 1902. p. 5.
  12. ↑ Holmburg, Charles K. (August 18, 1905). "Letter From Charles K. Holmburg to Our Readers". Escondido Times. p. 4.
  13. ↑ Miller, Lynn W. (February 2, 1906). "Business Change". Escondido, California. p. 4.
  14. ↑ Lindsay, A.S. (February 9, 1906). "To The Public". Escondido Times. p. 4.
  15. ↑ "A.S. Lindsay at Rest". Escondido Times. October 18, 1907. p. 4.
  16. ↑ "Death Of Major Lindsay | Passed away at Escondido, California, Last Thursday". The Leavenworth Echo. Leavenworth, Washington. October 18, 1907. p. 1.
  17. ↑ Lindsay, Josephine (September 11, 1908). "Administratix's Sale of Personal Property". Escondido Times. p. 5.
  18. ↑ "Editorial Comment". Escondido Times. September 25, 1908. p. 7.
  19. ↑ "Southern California In Brief". Los Angeles Evening Express. December 25, 1908. p. 11.
  20. ↑ "Our Bow To The Public". Weekly Times-Advocate. Escondido, California. January 1, 1909. p. 4.
  21. ↑ "Cucamonga". The Los Angeles Times. January 3, 1909. p. 11.
  22. ↑ "Times-Advocate Installs Mergenthaler Linotype". Weekly Times-Advocate. Escondido, California. January 13, 1911. p. 1.
  23. ↑ Turrentine, J.N. (August 16, 1912). "Parting Words". Weekly Times-Advocate. Escondido, California. p. 2.
  24. ↑ "The First Daily Ever Published In Escondido". Weekly Times-Advocate. Escondido, California. August 23, 1912. p. 2.
  25. ↑ "New Daily Is Born | White & Evans Change Weekly Escondido Times-Advocate". Porterville Recorder. August 30, 1912. p. 1.
  26. ↑ "Olds And White Are Partners In Madera". Porterville Recorder. May 6, 1914. p. 1.
  27. ↑ "Escondio newspaper sold by publisher". Daily News. Los Angeles, California. United Press. May 21, 1947. p. 18.
  28. ↑ "New Owners Of T-A Take Over". Daily Times-Advocate. Escondido, California. June 10, 1965. p. 1.
  29. ↑ "Carlton Appleby named new publisher of T-A". Daily Times-Advocate. Escondido, California. February 1, 1966. p. 1.
  30. ↑ "Chicago co. buys Escondido paper". Progress-Bulletin. Pomona, California. Associated Press. February 24, 1977. p. 11.
  31. ↑ "Marmack announces sale of its newspaper publications". The Fallbrook/Bonsall Enterprise. Fallbrook, California. August 11, 1988. p. 1.
  32. ↑ Johnson, Greg (August 11, 1988). "The Times-Advocate Co. on Wednesday said that..." Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 13, 2024. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  33. ↑ The Pulitzer Prizes (1990). "Finalist: Staff of Times-Advocate, Escondido, CA". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  34. ↑ Nelson, Dean (1995-07-27). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; A Newspaper Battle Looms in San Diego Suburbs". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
  35. ↑ "What We Do". North County Times. Archived from the original on September 4, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
  36. ↑ "What We Do". North County Times. Archived from the original on September 4, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
  37. ↑ Wolff, Eric (October 11, 2013). "Below the Fold: An Oral History of the North County Times". San Diego Magazine. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  38. 1 2 "Region: A new era begins". The San Diego Union-Tribune. October 15, 2012. Archived from the original on July 12, 2024. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  39. ↑ "Lee newspapers to buy Howard Publications". Baltimore Sun. February 13, 2002. Retrieved 2025-11-28.
  40. ↑ Fox, Zach (November 18, 2008). "ECONOMY: North County Times cuts newsroom by 20 percent". North County Times. Archived from the original on April 14, 2012. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
  41. ↑ "Lee Enterprises to sell North County Times to U-T". San Diego Union-Tribune. September 11, 2012. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
  42. ↑ Young, Pandora (October 3, 2012). "One-Third of Staff at North County Times To Lose Jobs". Adweek. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
  43. ↑ Steussy, Lauren (October 16, 2012). "U-T Combines with North County Times". NBC 7 San Diego. KNSD. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  44. ↑ Kauffman, Bruce (April 2, 2013). "North County Times online archives awash in the ether". San Diego Reader. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  45. ↑ "Changes Have Arrived For U-T's North County Readers". U-T San Diego. March 7, 2013. Archived from the original on November 6, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2026.
  46. ↑ St. John, Alison (May 29, 2013). "U-T San Diego Phases Out North County Edition". KPBS Public Media. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
  47. ↑ Groves, Alex (June 6, 2013). "Does end of Times leave news void?". North Coast Current. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  48. ↑ Groves, Alex (September 22, 2013). "School buys NCT building; open house Sept. 26". North Coast Current. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  49. ↑ Garrick, David (October 26, 2012). "Classical Academy buys North County Times's Escondido campus". North County Times. Archived from the original on October 30, 2012. Retrieved May 21, 2026.
  50. ↑ Stone, Ken (May 12, 2014). "Escondido Monthly Newspaper Debuts Amid Criticism as Liberal 'Propaganda'". Times of San Diego. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
  51. ↑ "Times-Advocate debuts in Valley Center, Escondido". North Coast Current. August 7, 2014. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
  52. ↑ "Times-Advocate in Escondido, Valley Center sold to Roadrunner". North Coast Current. January 6, 2016. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
  53. ↑ Street, Richard Steven (2004). Photographing Farmworkers in California, p. 283. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804740925
  54. ↑ Burfoot, Annette and Lord, Susan (2011). Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence, p. 170. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0889205264
  55. ↑ James W. Huston: Official biography Archived 2016-12-21 at the Wayback Machine (jameswhuston.com). Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  56. ↑ Pérez-Peña, Richard (21 February 2009). "Mary Jacobus, a Times Co. Executive, Dies at 52". The New York Times.. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  57. ↑ "Mary Jacobus Obituary (2009) - St. Petersburg, Florida - Tampa Bay Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
  58. ↑ CBS News (2 February 2006). Press release: "Award-winning Journalist Armen Keteyian Joins CBS News". Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  59. ↑ Tobin, Suzanne (5 April 2002). "Comics: Meet the Artist With Jim Toomey". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
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