Register-Pajaronian

Register-Pajaronian
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Good Times (WatsNews, LLC)
Founded1868
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersWatsonville, California
CityWatsonville, CA
CountryUSA
Circulation (as of 5000)
Websiteregister-pajaronian.com

The Register-Pajaronian is a newspaper based in Watsonville, California in Santa Cruz County on California's Central Coast. The Register-Pajaronian is published weekly every Friday, but was for many years a daily paper. The newspaper has a circulation of 5,000 and covers the Watsonville City Council, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District and the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau. The newspaper's coverage area includes the cities of Aptos, Corralitos, Watsonville, Pajaro, Aromas and most of North Monterey County. Tony Nunez is the managing editor of the Register-Pajaronian, which is owned by Santa Cruz-based Good Times .

The newspaper's roots trace back to 1868 when the Pajaronian was first published by J.A. Cottle. In 1894, a competing weekly newspaper owned by George W. Peckham began publishing daily and changed its name to the Register. In 1919, the Register was purchased by future Watsonville mayor Fred W. Atkinson, who then purchased the Pajaronian in 1930. After his death the two papers were purchased by the Scripps syndicate and consolidated into the Register-Pajaronian in 1940.

Interesting fact: In the 1930's a young man named Wes Gallagher worked as a sports writer for the Register-Pajaronian. In 1937 be became an Associated Press reporter and went to become a war correspondent when World War II began. By chance, he happened to be in Holland when the Nazis invaded, and followed with many more reports close to the front when the United States entered the conflict. In 1946, he covered the Nuremberg trials for the Associated Press, and when the verdicts were announced he got his report out first by dashing a long distance to his wife who was waiting with an active phone. Performances like that took him to higher positions with the Associated Press, and in 1962 he became its general manager and president, serving till 1976. From sports writer in a small local paper to the chief of the Associated Press. Way to go, Wes!

In 1956 the Register-Pajaronian won the Pulitzer Prize for an investigative series by photographer Sam Vestal, working under the leadership of its longtime editor Frank Orr and with assistance of Watsonville Police Chief Frank Osmer. These revelations led to the resignation of Santa Cruz County District Attorney Charles Moore, and the arrest and conviction of one of his associates.[1]

Scripps sold the Register-Pajaronian to News Media in 1995.[2]

Santa Cruz’s Good Times weekly purchased the Pajaronian on July 1, 2019, marking its return to local ownership for the first time in 78 years.[3]

In 2003, under the leadership of editor Jon Chown, articles by reporter Dave M. Brooks led to the ousting of Watsonville Mayor Richard de La Paz for his involvement in a bar room brawl. Months later, Brooks and Chown unraveled the local chapter of the Latino Chamber of Commerce after reporting revealed that chamber president Luis de la Cruz had been embezzling money from the group. De la Cruz was later sentenced to six months in jail.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Watsonville (CA) Register-Pajaronian". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  2. ^ Roberts, Gene; Kunkel, Thomas; Layton, Charles, eds. (2001). Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1610752325.
  3. ^ "Good Times purchases Watsonville Register-Pajaronian". Retrieved July 2, 2019.

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