Appeal-Democrat

Appeal-Democrat

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Horizon Publications
Publisher	Paula Patton
Founded	1860 (as the Marysville Appeal; see article)
Official website	www.appeal-democrat.com

The Appeal-Democrat is a daily broadsheet newspaper printed in Marysville, California, in the United States. It has an estimated circulation of 15,500 copies a day, primarily in Yuba and Sutter counties. The paper also is sold in Colusa County to the west and Butte County to the north.

History

The Appeal-Democrat formed from the 1926 merger of two earlier newspapers, the Marysville Appeal (founded in 1860) and the Marysville Evening Democrat (founded in 1884).

R.C. Hoiles, who built the Freedom Communications newspaper chain around the Santa Ana paper that became the Orange County Register, bought the Appeal-Democrat in 1946 and placed his son-in-law Robert C. Hardie in charge as its publisher.

Hardie directed the paper for the next 55 years, as circulation rose from about 7,500 to more than 20,000. Even as residents and businesses gradually shifted west from Marysville to nearby Yuba City, Hardie kept the Appeal-Democrat in its longtime home, twice acquiring new headquarters there (in 1950 and 1986).

In 2013, Freedom sold the Appeal-Democrat to Horizon Publications.

Current staff

Publisher: Paula Patton

Editor: Steve Miller

Advertising Director: Debbie Baggett

Circulation Director: John Mihalyo

IT/Interactive Director: Courtney Lopez

Human Resources Director: Donna Blair

Classified Director: Nancy Brown

City Editor: Eric Vodden

Sports Editor: Bryan DeMain

Photo Editor: Chris Kaufman

Multimedia Editor: Larry Badger

Community Editor: Leticia Gutierrez

Features Editor: Susan Benitez

Internet Managing Editor: Laura van der Meer

External links

• Appeal-Democrat official site
• Official mobile website
• Freedom Communications subsidiary profile of the Appeal-Democrat