THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE

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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.

1993
Publisher William D. Rich retires.

1994
Marcia McQuern becomes editor and publisher of The Press -Enterprise. Arthur A. Culver dies.

1947
bureau office is established in Corona. (Today there are bureaus from San Bernardino to Palm Springs and Temecula producing six editions of The Press-Enterprise: Desert, Hemet-San Jacinto, Southwest, Corona-Norco, San Bernardino County-Pass and the Riverside-Moreno Valley edition.) Harvey Oster works for the Press and Enterprise as a freelance professional photographer.

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 familys interest of The Press -Enterprise to A.H. Belo Corp.

1948

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. Hammonds daughter in the 30s and had been business and advertising manager since 1937, becomes general manager and vice president of the Press and Enterprise.

1998
George Rodrigue is named managing editor. Mel Opotowsky retires but stays for a year as ombudsman/consultant. The Press-Enterprise publishes an extra Oct. 6 reporting a shooting at Riverside City Hall.

WORLD CLASS PHOTOGRAPHY

Two Press-Enterprise photographers have captured top awards in the World Press Photo competition. Above, Mark Zaleski took first prize in the Nature Singles category for his photo of a helicopter fighting a California wildfire. Left, Carlos Puma captured first prize for his photo during a Jaripeo Mexican rodeo at Lake Perris Fairgrounds.

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.

1949
Howard H Tim Hays becomes editor of the Press and the Enterprise at age 32.

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.

1952
A bureau office for the Enterprise is established in Banning. The papers use 7,000 local photos shot by freelancers during the year.

1963
A 15,000-square-foot addition is made to the 14th Street building to house a new and bigger press.

1953
Norman A. Cherniss becomes the first editorial page editor of the Press and Enterprise, a title he retained until his death in 1984.

1974
The Press and Enterprise expand national coverage by establishing a Washington, D.C., bureau.

1985

1964
The Press-Enterprise begins publication of a Sunday TV magazine.

1954

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 Representatives 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.

1965
Howard H Tim Hays Jr. and Arthur A. Culver are named co-publishers.

1966

1955

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 .

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 Riverside 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.

Gordon Wilson retires. Marcia McQuern is named managing editor / news. Bruce Reynolds becomes associate editor before departing in 1986. 1977 The Press-Enterprise opens he Daily Independent bureaus in Moreno Valley and Enterprise eventually Temecula. becomes The Daily 1986 Enterprise and in 1977 evolves into The Enterprise. The Press-Enterprise wins a New computer technology is second landmark case in which added to the Press and the U.S. Supreme Court rules the Enterprise. Reporters and public has the right to attend editors switch from typewriters pretrial hearings in criminal to video display terminals cases, including preliminary accompanied by "six computers hearings, after a Riverside to store, retrieve and change County Superior Court judge stories." The cost: $1 million. closed the preliminary hearing in a multiple murder trial and 1978 then sealed the transcript of the Total employees for the Press hearing. The Press-Enterprise divides and Enterprise reach 717 with a its Ramona edition into two new payroll of $6.8 million annually. editions Hemet-San Jacinto 1981 and Southwest. he company adds a 1987 42,000-square-foot press room and distribution arcia McQuern is named center for eight presses executive editor. Mel and two inserters. The Press and Opotowsky is named Enterprise are published as The senior managing Morning Press-Enterprise and editor/administration and the Evening Press-Enterprise. features. Joe Happ is named The Morning Press Enterprise is, managing editor/news. by this time, publishing four 1988 editions Desert & Pass, Ramona, Corona-Norco and The Press-Enterprise adds Riverside. The Evening Press 110,000 square feet of space, includes a Jurupa edition. three Goss offset presses and an Members of the Culver family expanded distribution center. sell 20 percent stock ownership Total cost of expansion: $40 to Dow Jones & Co. million. Howard H Tim Hays steps down as publisher.

2001
Maria De Varenne is named executive editor. Lawrence Young is named managing editor.

2002

he Press-Enterprise recasts its nameplate from The Inland Empires Newspaper to Inland Southern Californias Newspaper. 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 PressEnterprise 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 papers 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.

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.

1989
William D. Rich is named publisher. The Press -Enterprise adds a Temecula Valley edition.

1968

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

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he papers publish the first color news photo of Miss California, Sandra Jennings of Riverside more than 30 years before color photography is used regularly in the papers.

1959
he Valley edition of the Daily Enterprise, covering the Hemet-San Jacinto area, begins publication. Later it becomes the Ramona edition, then the Hemet-San Jacinto edition.

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, win the Press and Enterprise the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service. The articles lead to a change in the laws governing the administration of the Indian estates. Art Nauman is named managing editor of the Press (1968-1972).

1992

1984

1969
Howard H Hays Sr. dies.

1971
Norman A. Cherniss, who joined the papers as editorial page editor in 1953 and became associate editor in 1967, is named the first executive editor of the Press and Enterprise .

1960
The Riverside Daily Press changes its name to The Press. The Sunday Enterprise is known as The Sunday Press -Enterprise. On holidays the paper is The Press-Enterprise. The Press-Enterprise opens a bureau in Indio.

1973
Mel Opotowsky is named day editor of the Press.

The Press-Enterprise wins the first of two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases. The court rules that the public has the right to witness jury selection in criminal trials. The case involved a 1981 rape-murder trial in which a Riverside County Superior Court judge had closed the death qualifying phase of jury selection and then sealed the transcript. Arthur A. Culver retires as co-publisher. Howard H Tim Hays becomes publisher in addition to editor of The Press -Enterprise. Executive Editor and Editorial Page Editor Norman A. Cherniss dies. Gordon Wilson is named managing editor/news, Mel Opotowsky is named managing editor/administration and features. In this photo by The Press-Enterprises first staff photographer, Fred Bruce Reynolds is named Bauman, The Rolling Stones arrive at the Swing Auditorium in San Berexecutive editor. nardino, in spring 1964, for their first American concert.

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.

2006
A host of Belo Corp. executives, including Robert W. Decherd, chairman and Chief Executive 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.