The Press Democrat
The Press Democrat, with the largest circulation in California's North Bay, is a daily newspaper published in Santa Rosa, California.
Type
Daily newspaper
Sonoma Media Investments LLC
John D'Anna, Interim Executive Editor
1897
(as the Sonoma Democrat)
416 B Street
Santa Rosa, California 95401
United States 38°26′30″N 122°42′54″W / 38.441743°N 122.714944°W
20,000 Daily
25,000 Sunday
18,000 Digital Only
(as of 2023)[1]
cdnc.ucr.edu (1875-1928)
Awards and honors[edit]
The Press Democrat's staff was the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for "[f]or lucid and tenacious coverage of historic wildfires that ravaged the city of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County."[7] Former staff photographer Annie Wells also won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography "for her dramatic photograph of a local firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters."[8]
The newspaper was also the 2004 recipient of the George Polk Award for Regional Reporting,[9] given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.