Timeline: The Press-Enterprise - Part 2
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THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE THE HOWARD H “TIM” HAYS MEDIA CENTER SATURDAY, April 28, 2007 • S15 during World War II. The Press and Enterprise now have at least a dozen Linotype machines and a web press with a capacity of 16 pages. 1947 A bureau office is established in Corona. (To- day there are bureaus from San Bernardino to Palm Springs and Temecula producing six editions of The Press-Enterprise: Desert, He- met-San Jacinto, Southwest, Corona-Norco, San Bernardino County-Pass and the Riv- erside-Moreno Valley edition.) Harvey Oster works for the Press and Enterprise as a freelance professional photo- grapher. 1948 H arry Hammond, president of the Press and Enterprise , dies. Howard H Hays Sr. becomes president of the Press and Enterprise. Arthur A. Culver, who had married H.W. Hammond’s daughter in the ’30s and had been business and advertising manager since 1937, becomes general manager and vice president of the Press and Enterprise. 1949 Howard H “Tim” Hays becomes editor of the Press and the Enterprise at age 32. 1952 A bureau office for the Enterprise is established in Banning. The papers use 7,000 local photos shot by freelancers during the year. 1953 Norman A. Cherniss becomes the first editorial page editor of the Press and Enterprise, a title he retained until his death in 1984. 1954 T he Press and the Enterprise pioneer the use of the new United Press facsimile system that makes it possible to receive photographs from around the world for same-day publication. The Press is the first evening newspaper in the country to use the system. The first photo published is a picture of a wounded U.S. congressman being carried from the House of Representativ es after being shot by Puerto Rican revolutionaries. Fred Bauman joins The Press and Enterprise as its first staff photographer. His first photo is of the first day of classes at UCR. The Riverside Daily Press files an amendment to change the company name to the Press-Enterprise Co. 1955 T he newspapers move from Eighth and Market streets to a new building at 3512 14th St., with a six-unit Metropolitan press with a two-page-wide, 16-page capacity. The two papers publish together on Sundays as the Sunday Press-Enterprise and on holidays as the Press-Enterprise. The Press -Enterprise opens a bureau in Palm Springs and the Desert & Pass edition of the Enterprise begins publication. The Enterprise changes its name to Daily Enterprise . 1956 The Press-Enterprise opens bureaus in Hemet and Sun City. 1957 Garland Griffin is named managing editor of The Daily Enterprise (1957-73). Al Perrin is named managing editor of The Riverside Press (1957-68). The Daily Enterprise adds a Corona edition, later changed to Corona-Norco. 1958 1963 A 15,000-square-foot addition is made to the 14th Street building to house a new and bigger press. 1964 The Press-Enterprise begins publication of a Sunday TV magazine. 1965 Howard H “Tim” Hays Jr. and Arthur A. Culver are named co-publishers. 1966 T he Press and Enterprise expand state coverage by adding a full-time Sacramento correspondent. The first Press-Enterprise Lecture takes place. Co-sponsored by UCR, the lecture brings a prominent figure in journalism to Rivers ide to speak on issues in journalism. It will be renamed the Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture in 1998 with a $100,000 endowment from Tim Hays’ son Tom, in honor of his father. News and mechanical departments of the newspapers are expanded at the 14th Street facility with a two-story, 25,000-square-foot addition to the building. In the mid-1960s, the first steps toward automated typesetting are taken with some advertising. 1967 The Press and Enterprise combine to launch a single Saturday morning edition: The Press -Enterprise. 1968 T he newspapers begin publication of articles exposing the way in which judges and attorneys had been using their position to levy exorbitant fees against the estates of the Agua Caliente Indians of Palm Springs for the benefit of conservators and guardians. More than 100 stories – mainly the work of reporter George Ringwald – run over a period of 12 months. The stories, together with editorials on the same subject, 1974 The Press and Enterprise expand national coverage by establishing a Washington, D.C., bureau. 1977 T he Daily Independent Enterprise eventually becomes The Daily Enterprise and in 1977 evol ves into The Enterprise. New computer technology is added to the Press and Enterprise. Reporters and editors switch from typewriters to video display terminals accompanied by "six computers to store, retrieve and change stories." The cost: $1 million. 1978 Total employee s for the Press and Enterprise reach 717 with a payroll of $6.8 million annually. 1981 T he company adds a 42,000-square-foot press room and distribution center for eight presses and two inserters. The Press and Enterprise are published as The Morning Press-Enterprise and the Evening Press-Enterprise. The Morning Press Enterprise is, by this time, publishing four editions – Desert & Pass, Ramona, Corona-Norco and Riverside. The Evening Press includes a Jurupa edition. Members of the Culver family sell 20 percent stock ownership to Dow Jones & Co. 1983 Reacting to a trend away from evening newspapers, the morning and evening editions of The Press-Enterprise are consolidated into a single morning newspaper, The Press -Enterprise, on Oct. 1 with six editions – Desert & Pass, Ramona, Corona-Norco, Moreno Valley, Jurupa and Riverside. Arthur A. Culver retires as co-publisher. Howard H “Tim” Hays becomes publisher in addition to editor. 1984 The Press-Enterprise wins the first of two landmark U.S. 1985 Gordon Wilson retires. Marcia McQuern is named managing editor / news. Bruce Reynolds becomes associate editor before departing in 1986. The Press-Enterprise opens bureaus in Moreno Valley and Temecula. 1986 The Press-Enterprise wins a second landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court rules the public has the right to attend pretrial hearings in criminal cases, including preliminary hearings, after a Riverside County Superior Court judge closed the preliminary hearing in a multiple murder trial and then sealed the transcript of the hearing. The Press-Enterprise divides its Ramona edition into two new editions – Hemet-San Jacinto and Southwest. 1987 M arcia McQuern is named executive editor. Mel Opotowsky is named senior managing editor/administration and features. Joe Happ is named managing editor/news. 1988 The Press-Enterprise adds 110,000 square feet of space, three Goss offset presses and an expanded distribution center. Total cost of expansion: $40 million. Howard H “Tim” Hays steps down as publisher. 1989 William D. Rich is named publisher. The Press -Enterprise adds a Temecula Valley edition. 1992 T im Hays relinquishes leadership of the day-to-day operation of the newspaper to Marcia McQuern, who becomes president and CEO. Hays becomes company chairman. Subzoned pages for the Jurupa, North and South Riverside areas are added to the Riverside edition. Mel Opotowsky is named managing editor. 1878-2007: A PRESS-ENTERPRISE TIMELINE CONTINUED FROM S9 WORLD CLASS PHOTOGRAPHY Two Press-Enterprise photographers have cap- tured top awards in the World Press Photo com- petition. Above, Mark Zaleski took first prize in the Nature Singles cate- gory for his photo of a helicopter fighting a Cali- fornia wildfire. Left, Car- los Puma captured first prize for his photo during a Jaripeo Mexican rodeo at Lake Perris Fair- grounds. 1993 Publis her W illiam D. R ich reti res. 1994 Marcia McQuern becomes editor and publisher of The Press -Enterprise. Arthur A. Culver dies. 1996 Dow Jones & Co. sells its 20 percent stock ownership of The Press-Enterprise to Dallas-based A.H. Belo Corp. – now called Belo. 1997 The San Bernardino County bureau opens, and a San Bernardino County edition is added covering the southern tiers of that county. Howard H “Tim” Hays oversees the sale of the family’s interest of The Press -Enterprise to A.H. Belo Corp. 1998 George Rodrigue is named managing editor. Mel Opotowsk y retires but stays for a year as ombudsman/consultant. The Press-Enterprise publishes an extra Oct. 6 reporting a shooting at Riverside City Hall. 1999 George Rodrigue is named executive editor. The Press -Enterprise purchases the Hemet News, which is circulated as an insert of the Hemet-San Jacinto edition. 2000 Maria De Varenne is named managing editor. The Hemet News becomes the local section of Hemet-San Jacinto edition. George Rodrigue leaves the P-E to oversee Belo publishing and broadcast operations in Washington, D.C. 2001 Maria De Varenne is named executive editor. Lawrence Young is named managing editor. 2002 T he Press-Enterprise recasts its nameplate from “The Inland Empire’s Newspaper” to “Inland Southern California’s News paper.” Lawrence Young dies at age 47. The newspaper begins home delivery in the San Bernardino Mountains, serving Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear and surrounding communities. Marcia McQuern retires as president and CEO of The Press- Enterprise Co. and publisher and editor of The Press-Enterprise. David Cornwall is named publisher and CEO and Maria De Varenne is named editor and vice president/news. 2004 John Gryka, deputy managing editor of The Press-Enterprise for the past three years, is named managing editor and placed in charge of day-to-day operations of the paper’s newsroom. Publisher and CEO David L. Cornwall retires. 2005 Veteran media executive Ronald Redfern is named publisher and CEO of The Press-Enterprise. Redfern, who spent two years as president of Media General Inc.’s Florida Communications Group in Tampa, had previously worked for more than a decade in senior management at Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc. and its flagship newspaper, The Orange County Register. 2006 A host of Belo Corp. executives, including Robert W. Decherd, chairman and Chief Executiv e Officer of Belo, gather with Tim Hays and Inland dignitaries for groundbreaking ceremonies on the future site of the Howard H “Tim” Hays Media Center.
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THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE T H E H O W A R D H “ T I M ” H A Y S M E D I A C E N T E R SATURDAY, April 28, 2007 • S15
during World War II. The Pressand Enterprise now have at leasta dozen Linotype machines and aweb press with a capacity of 16pages.
1947
Abureau office is
established in Corona. (To-day there are bureausfrom San Bernardino to
Palm Springs and Temeculaproducing six editions of ThePress-Enterprise: Desert, He-met-San Jacinto, Southwest,Corona-Norco, San BernardinoCounty-Pass and the Riv-erside-Moreno Valley edition.)
Harvey Oster works for thePress and Enterprise as afreelance professional photo-grapher.
1948
Harry Hammond, presidentof the Press andEnterprise , dies.
Howard H Hays Sr.becomes president of the Pressand Enterprise.
Arthur A. Culver, who hadmarried H.W. Hammond’sdaughter in the ’30s and had been
business and advertisingmanager since 1937, becomesgeneral manager and vicepresident of the Press andEnterprise.
1949
Howard H “Tim” Haysbecomes editor of the Press andthe Enterprise at age 32.
1952
A bureau office for theEnterprise is established inBanning. The papers use 7,000local photos shot by freelancersduring the year.
1953
Norman A. Cherniss becomesthe first editorial page editor of the
Press and Enterprise, a title heretained until his death in 1984.
1954
The Press and the Enterprisepioneer the use of the newUnited Press facsimilesystem that makes it
possible to receive photographsfrom around the world forsame-day publication.
The Press is the first eveningnewspaper in the country to usethe system. The first photopublished is a picture of awounded U.S. congressmanbeing carried from the House of Representatives after being shotby Puerto Rican revolutionaries.
Fred Bauman joins The Pressand Enterprise as its first staff photographer. His first photo is
of the first day of classes at UCR.The Riverside Daily Pressfiles an amendment to changethe company name to thePress-Enterprise Co.
1955
The newspapers move fromEighth and Market streetsto a new building at 351214th St., with a six-unit
Metropolitan press with atwo-page-wide, 16-page capacity.
The two papers publishtogether on Sundays as theSunday Press-Enterprise and onholidays as the Press-Enterprise.
The Press -Enterprise opens abureau in Palm Springs and theDesert & Pass edition of theEnterprise begins publication.
The Enterprise changes its
name to Daily Enterprise .1956
The Press-Enterprise opensbureaus in Hemet and Sun City.
1957
Garland Griffin is namedmanaging editor of The DailyEnterprise (1957-73). Al Perrin isnamed managing editor of TheRiverside Press (1957-68). TheDaily Enterprise adds a Coronaedition, later changed toCorona-Norco.
1958
The papers publish the firstcolor news photo – of MissCalifornia, SandraJennings of Riverside –
more than 30 years before color
photography is used regularly inthe papers.
1959
The Valley edition of theDaily Enterprise, coveringthe Hemet-San Jacintoarea, begins publication.
Later it becomes the Ramonaedition, then the Hemet-SanJacinto edition.
1960
The Riverside Daily Presschanges its name to The Press.The Sunday Enterprise is knownas The Sunday Press -Enterprise.On holidays the paper is ThePress-Enterprise.
The Press-Enterprise opens abureau in Indio.
1963
A 15,000-square-foot additionis made to the 14th Streetbuilding to house a new andbigger press.
1964
The Press-Enterprise beginspublication of a Sunday TVmagazine.
1965
Howard H “Tim” Hays Jr. andArthur A. Culver are namedco-publishers.
1966
The Press and Enterpriseexpand state coverage byadding a full-timeSacramento
correspondent.The first Press-Enterprise
Lecture takes place.Co-sponsored by UCR, thelecture brings a prominent
figure in journalism to Riversideto speak on issues in journalism.It will be renamed the HaysPress-Enterprise Lecture in 1998with a $100,000 endowment fromTim Hays’ son Tom, in honor of his father.
News and mechanicaldepartments of the newspapersare expanded at the 14th Streetfacility with a two-story,25,000-square-foot addition to thebuilding. In the mid-1960s, thefirst steps toward automatedtypesetting are taken with someadvertising.
1967
The Press and Enterprisecombine to launch a singleSaturday morning edition: ThePress -Enterprise.
1968
The newspapers beginpublication of articlesexposing the way in which
judges and attorneys hadbeen using their position to levyexorbitant fees against theestates of the Agua CalienteIndians of Palm Springs for thebenefit of conservators andguardians. More than 100 stories– mainly the work of reporterGeorge Ringwald – run over aperiod of 12 months.
The stories, together witheditorials on the same subject,win the Press and Enterprise the1968 Pulitzer Prize formeritorious public service. Thearticles lead to a change in thelaws governing the
administration of the Indianestates.Art Nauman is named
managing editor of the Press(1968-1972).
1969
Howard H Hays Sr. dies.
1971
Norman A. Cherniss, who joined the papers as editorialpage editor in 1953 and becameassociate editor in 1967, is namedthe first executive editor of thePress and Enterprise .
1973
Mel Opotowsky is named dayeditor of the Press.
1974
The Press and Enterpriseexpand national coverage byestablishing a Washington, D.C.,
bureau.1977
The Daily IndependentEnterprise eventuallybecomes The DailyEnterprise and in 1977
evolves into The Enterprise.New computer technology is
added to the Press andEnterprise. Reporters andeditors switch from typewritersto video display terminalsaccompanied by "six computersto store, retrieve and changestories." The cost: $1 million.
1978
Total employees for the Pressand Enterprise reach 717 with apayroll of $6.8 million annually.
1981
The company adds a42,000-square-foot pressroom and distributioncenter for eight presses
and two inserters. The Press andEnterprise are published as TheMorning Press-Enterprise andthe Evening Press-Enterprise.The Morning Press Enterprise is,by this time, publishing foureditions – Desert & Pass,Ramona, Corona-Norco andRiverside. The Evening Pressincludes a Jurupa edition.Members of the Culver familysell 20 percent stock ownershipto Dow Jones & Co.
1983
Reacting to a trend away fromevening newspapers, the
morning and evening editions of The Press-Enterprise areconsolidated into a singlemorning newspaper, The Press-Enterprise, on Oct. 1 with sixeditions – Desert & Pass,Ramona, Corona-Norco, MorenoValley, Jurupa and Riverside.
Arthur A. Culver retires asco-publisher. Howard H “Tim”Hays becomes publisher inaddition to editor.
1984
The Press-Enterprise winsthe first of two landmark U.S.Supreme Court cases. The courtrules that the public has the rightto witness jury selection incriminal trials.
The case involved a 1981rape-murder trial in which a
Riverside County Superior Court judge had closed the “deathqualifying” phase of juryselection and then sealed thetranscript.
Arthur A. Culver retires asco-publisher. Howard H “Tim”Hays becomes publisher inaddition to editor of The Press-Enterprise.
Executive Editor and EditorialPage Editor Norman A. Chernissdies.
Gordon Wilson is namedmanaging editor/news, MelOpotowsky is named managingeditor/administration andfeatures.
Bruce Reynolds is namedexecutive editor.
1985
Gordon Wilson retires.Marcia McQuern is namedmanaging editor / news. Bruce
Reynolds becomes associateeditor before departing in 1986.The Press-Enterprise opens
bureaus in Moreno Valley andTemecula.
1986
The Press-Enterprise wins asecond landmark case in whichthe U.S. Supreme Court rules thepublic has the right to attendpretrial hearings in criminalcases, including preliminaryhearings, after a RiversideCounty Superior Court judgeclosed the preliminary hearingin a multiple murder trial andthen sealed the transcript of thehearing.
The Press-Enterprise dividesits Ramona edition into two neweditions – Hemet-San Jacinto
and Southwest.1987
Marcia McQuern is namedexecutive editor. MelOpotowsky is namedsenior managing
editor/administration andfeatures. Joe Happ is namedmanaging editor/news.
1988
The Press-Enterprise adds110,000 square feet of space,three Goss offset presses and anexpanded distribution center.Total cost of expansion: $40million. Howard H “Tim” Hayssteps down as publisher.
1989
William D. Rich is named
publisher. The Press -Enterpriseadds a Temecula Valley edition.
1992
Tim Hays relinquishesleadership of the day-to-dayoperation of the newspaperto Marcia McQuern, who
becomes president and CEO. Haysbecomes company chairman.Subzoned pages for the Jurupa,North and South Riverside areasare added to the Riverside edition.
Mel Opotowsky is namedmanaging editor.
1878-2007 : A P R E S S - E N T E R P R I S E T I M E L I N E
CONTINUED FROM S9
WORLD CLASS
PHOTOGRAPHY
Two Press-Enterprisephotographers have cap-tured top awards in theWorld Press Photo com-petition. Above, MarkZaleski took first prize inthe Nature Singles cate-gory for his photo of ahelicopter fighting a Cali-fornia wildfire. Left, Car-los Puma captured firstprize for his photo duringa Jaripeo Mexican rodeoat Lake Perris Fair-grounds.
In this photo by The Press-Enterprise’s first staff photographer, FredBauman, The Rolling Stones arrive at the Swing Auditorium in San Ber-nardino, in spring 1964, for their first American concert.
1993
Publisher William D. Richretires.
1994
Marcia McQuern becomeseditor and publisher of The Press-Enterprise. Arthur A. Culverdies.
1996
Dow Jones & Co. sells its 20percent stock ownership of The
Press-Enterprise to Dallas-basedA.H. Belo Corp. – now called Belo.
1997
The San Bernardino Countybureau opens, and a SanBernardino County edition isadded covering the southerntiers of that county. Howard H“Tim” Hays oversees the sale of the family’s interest of The Press-Enterprise to A.H. Belo Corp.
1998
George Rodrigue is namedmanaging editor. Mel Opotowskyretires but stays for a year asombudsman/consultant. ThePress-Enterprise publishes anextra Oct. 6 reporting a shootingat Riverside City Hall.
1999George Rodrigue is named
executive editor. The Press-Enterprise purchases theHemet News, which is circulatedas an insert of the Hemet-SanJacinto edition.
2000
Maria De Varenne is namedmanaging editor. The HemetNews becomes the local sectionof Hemet-San Jacinto edition.George Rodrigue leaves the P-Eto oversee Belo publishing andbroadcast operations inWashington, D.C.
2001
Maria De Varenne is namedexecutive editor. Lawrence Youngis named managing editor.
2002
The Press-Enterprise recastsits nameplate from “TheInland Empire’s Newspaper”to “Inland Southern
California’s Newspaper.”Lawrence Young dies at age 47.The newspaper begins home
delivery in the San BernardinoMountains, serving Crestline,Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear andsurrounding communities.
Marcia McQuern retires aspresident and CEO of The Press-Enterprise Co. and publisher andeditor of The Press-Enterprise.
David Cornwall is namedpublisher and CEO and Maria DeVarenne is named editor andvice president/news.
2004John Gryka, deputy managing
editor of The Press-Enterprisefor the past three years, is namedmanaging editor and placed incharge of day-to-day operationsof the paper’s newsroom.
Publisher and CEO David L.Cornwall retires.
2005
Veteran media executiveRonald Redfern is namedpublisher and CEO of ThePress-Enterprise.
Redfern, who spent two yearsas president of Media GeneralInc.’s Florida CommunicationsGroup in Tampa, had previouslyworked for more than a decade insenior management atIrvine-based Freedom
Communications Inc. and itsflagship newspaper, The OrangeCounty Register.
2006
A host of Belo Corp.executives, including Robert W.Decherd, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Belo, gatherwith Tim Hays and Inlanddignitaries for groundbreakingceremonies on the future site of the Howard H “Tim” Hays MediaCenter.
