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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.

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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.