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Ventura County Star
The Ventura County Star (Marked online as VC Star) is a daily newspaper published in Camarillo, California and serves all of Ventura County. It is owned by Gannett, the largest publisher of newspapers in the United States. It is a successor to a number of daily newspapers published around Ventura County during the 20th century.
On June 15, 1925, the first issue of the Ventura County Star was published. Its first publisher was Roy D. Pinkerton. He co-founded the Star with William H. Porterfield, who died in 1927. An early stockholder in the Star was John P. Scripps Newspaper Group.
In 1936, the Star acquired rival paper Ventura Free Press (which itself was founded in 1875) from Dan W. Emmett, and soon began publishing as the Ventura County Star-Free Press. In 1986, John P. Scripps merged with E. W. Scripps Company.
E. W. Scripps purchased the Camarillo Daily News in 1992 from Harris Enterprises. The daily Simi Valley Enterprise and the weekly Moorpark News-Mirror also were acquired in 1992. Scripps also owned the daily Thousand Oaks News Chronicle Editor & Publisher magazine called Ventura County the "site of one of the hottest newspaper wars in the nation." The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News and the Thomson Newspapers group all published competing Ventura County newspapers. The Camarillo Daily News stopped publishing in December 1993. The competing Thomson Oxnard Press-Courier last published on June 14, 1994. The Thomson weekly newspapers, the Camarillo Sun and Ventura Sun, also ceased publication. The Santa Paula Chronicle also ended publication.
The paper dropped the Free-Press part of the name in November 1994.
Scripps spun out its newspapers to Journal Media Group in April 2015, and Gannett acquired the Journal newspapers in April 2016. Daily circulation was reported to be around 45,700 and its Sunday circulation at 58,600.
After more than 10 years at the 550 Camarillo Center Drive location, the Ventura County Star announced in May 2018 that they were moving to a new office on East Daily Drive in Camarillo.
From 1960 to 1987, the editor was Julius Gius. Later, George Cogswell III was the publisher for five years, leaving in 2012 to be publisher and chief revenue officer of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee. followed by Shanna Cannon. As of October 2016, the president is Mark J. Winkler.
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Ventura County Star
The Ventura County Star (Marked online as VC Star) is a daily newspaper published in Camarillo, California and serves all of Ventura County. It is owned by Gannett, the largest publisher of newspapers in the United States. It is a successor to a number of daily newspapers published around Ventura County during the 20th century.
On June 15, 1925, the first issue of the Ventura County Star was published. Its first publisher was Roy D. Pinkerton. He co-founded the Star with William H. Porterfield, who died in 1927. An early stockholder in the Star was John P. Scripps Newspaper Group.
In 1936, the Star acquired rival paper Ventura Free Press (which itself was founded in 1875) from Dan W. Emmett, and soon began publishing as the Ventura County Star-Free Press. In 1986, John P. Scripps merged with E. W. Scripps Company.
E. W. Scripps purchased the Camarillo Daily News in 1992 from Harris Enterprises. The daily Simi Valley Enterprise and the weekly Moorpark News-Mirror also were acquired in 1992. Scripps also owned the daily Thousand Oaks News Chronicle Editor & Publisher magazine called Ventura County the "site of one of the hottest newspaper wars in the nation." The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News and the Thomson Newspapers group all published competing Ventura County newspapers. The Camarillo Daily News stopped publishing in December 1993. The competing Thomson Oxnard Press-Courier last published on June 14, 1994. The Thomson weekly newspapers, the Camarillo Sun and Ventura Sun, also ceased publication. The Santa Paula Chronicle also ended publication.
The paper dropped the Free-Press part of the name in November 1994.
Scripps spun out its newspapers to Journal Media Group in April 2015, and Gannett acquired the Journal newspapers in April 2016. Daily circulation was reported to be around 45,700 and its Sunday circulation at 58,600.
After more than 10 years at the 550 Camarillo Center Drive location, the Ventura County Star announced in May 2018 that they were moving to a new office on East Daily Drive in Camarillo.
From 1960 to 1987, the editor was Julius Gius. Later, George Cogswell III was the publisher for five years, leaving in 2012 to be publisher and chief revenue officer of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee. followed by Shanna Cannon. As of October 2016, the president is Mark J. Winkler.