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The ''Daily Breeze'' is a print and digital news media company based in Torrance, California. Its coverage area includes the South Bay and Harbor Area cities of Los Angeles County “from LAX to LA Harbor,” including the communities of Carson, El Segundo, Gardena, Harbor City, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Lawndale, Lomita, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, San Pedro, Torrance, and Wilmington. The ''Daily Breeze'' is a member of the Los Angeles News Group (LANG), a division of Digital First Media. Established in 1894, the ''Daily Breeze'' is best known for its coverage of local news. In 2015 the ''Daily Breeze'' won the Pulitzer Prize〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2015-Local-Reporting )〕 for Local Reporting for its coverage of a financial scandal in the Centinela Valley Union High School District. The paper had earlier won a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for the same investigation and also won the National Headliner Award. Another investigative series, (''Getting Away with Murder'' ), examines the scope of unsolved homicides in Los Angeles County. == Early history == The paper was founded as the weekly ''The Breeze'' in 1894 by local political activist S.D. Barkley and first served the local Redondo Beach community. When "Doc" Barkley, also a former druggist, announced to his friends in Redondo Beach one night in 1894 that he was planning to start a newspaper, he reportedly said, "I'm going to start a newspaper in this town tomorrow and call it the Breeze, because the breeze always blows here." Barkley opened his newspaper office at 116 North Pacific Avenue in a wooden building he shared with Nick's Bootery, and the four-page tabloid paper began to appear once a week on Saturday. Prohibition was the hot-button issue of the day in Redondo Beach. Barkley jumped right into the battle, aligning himself with the four saloonkeepers in town who were leading The Wets. The Drys were out to close the saloons, and were represented by local ministers and their followers who were opposed to alcohol consumption. The much-debated issue finally came to a couple of heated votes in 1910. Redondo Beach voters sided with the Breeze and its Wet brethren in both cases, and the saloons stayed open. Barkley's newspaper venture began to grow more successful as the area began to develop. He was an active Chamber of Commerce member, and the pages of the Breeze in its early days are filled with civic boosterism and upbeat local news involving the area's growing population and thriving real estate activities. Coverage eventually spread to other coastal cities. In 1912, the Breeze began covering news in Manhattan Beach (population: 75) and Hermosa Beach (population: 685). Barkley sold the Breeze in 1913; he later became postmaster of Redondo Beach. Chamber of Commerce secretary George Murphy became the paper's new owner. It was rumored that he was merely a front man for the ambitious politician Harry Brolaski, who led an unsuccessful attempt to develop a harbor at Redondo Beach to rival San Pedro. In any case, the Breeze was sold again in late 1915 to Frank L. Perry, son of a railroad executive. He owned the paper for just nine months before selling it in 1916 to George Orgibet, a newspaperman from Chicago. "I was no newspaperman and was rather glad to get it off my hands," said Perry later. In 1918, the circulation of the Breeze was "631 paid copies." A subscription cost $1.50 a year. When Orgibet heard that newspaper publisher F.W. Kellogg was looking to start up an operation in Redondo Beach, he immediately tracked him down and sold him the Breeze in the late fall of 1922. Kellogg made several changes. He moved the Breeze to the basement of the Bank of America building at 105 Wall Street, which also fronted on 131 Pacific Avenue, and he quickly transformed the weekly into a daily paper (except Sunday) as of the Monday, December 18, 1922 edition. The paper thrived under Kellogg's ownership during the 1920s as Redondo Beach continued its growth. Circulation as of December 6, 1927 reached 2,951. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daily Breeze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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