Editing Long Beach, California (section)

==Media==
===Print===
Long Beach's daily newspaper is the ''[[Long Beach Press-Telegram]]'', which is distributed throughout most of the [[Gateway Cities]] and [[South Bay, Los Angeles|South Bay]] areas of southwest Los Angeles County. The ''Press-Telegram'' is owned by [[Digital First Media]] and is part of the [[Los Angeles Newspaper Group]], which has several newspapers in the [[Southern California]] area which share resources and reporters.

On September 30, 1933, the ''Press-Telegram'' published what [[David Dayen]] called "One of the more influential letters to the editor in American history": [[Francis Townsend]]'s letter outlining the Townsend Plan, a proposal that sparked a national campaign which influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration's [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] system.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://psmag.com/social-justice/frustrated-blogger-made-expanding-social-security-respectable-idea-67226 |title=How a Frustrated Blogger Made Expanding Social Security a Respectable Idea |first=David |last=Dayen |date=October 29, 2013 |work=Pacific Standard |access-date=January 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524200926/https://psmag.com/social-justice/frustrated-blogger-made-expanding-social-security-respectable-idea-67226 |archive-date=May 24, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

California State University, Long Beach also has a student newspaper published four times a week during the fall and spring semesters, the ''Daily Forty-Niner''.

The Gazette newspapers called ''The Grunion Gazette'', ''The Downtown Gazette'', and ''The Uptown Gazette'' are free, weekly newspapers that focus on various parts of the city. The Gazettes were sold to MediaNews (now Digital First Media), owner of the ''Press-Telegram'', in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gazettes.com/contact_us/about_us/ |title=About Us |website=Gazettes |access-date=January 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124012233/http://www.gazettes.com/contact_us/about_us/ |archive-date=January 24, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

''Palacio Magazine'' (formerly ''Palacio de Long Beach'') is a free quarterly,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://palaciomagazine.com/about/|title=About Us – Palacio Magazine|access-date=January 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104201638/http://palaciomagazine.com/about/|archive-date=January 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> bilingual magazine which runs stories focusing on community, education, art, health and wellness side by side in English and Spanish.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://lbpost.com/news/2000006185-palacio-de-long-beach-relaunches-as-palacio-magazine|title=Bi-Lingual Publication Palacio de Long Beach Relaunches as Digital-Focused Palacio Magazine|first=Asia|last=Morris|date=May 26, 2015|work=Long Beach Post|access-date=January 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101104213/http://lbpost.com/news/2000006185-palacio-de-long-beach-relaunches-as-palacio-magazine|archive-date=January 1, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Although not based in Long Beach, the [[alternative weekly|alternative weeklies]] ''[[OC Weekly]]'' and ''[[LA Weekly]]'' are distributed widely in Long Beach. Starting in 2007, Long Beach was served by its own [[The District (newspaper)|''The District Weekly'']], an alternative weekly that covered news, the arts, restaurants, and the local music scene. The District Weekly ceased publication in March 2010, citing lack of advertiser support.

In 2013 Freedom Communications, owner of the ''[[Orange County Register]]'', launched a five-day daily newspaper, the ''Long Beach Register'', aimed at competing with the ''Press-Telegram''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Despite-Odds-Calif-City-Becomes-2-Newspaper-Town-220104281.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand|title=Despite Odds, Calif. City Becomes Two-Newspaper Town|work=[[NBC Southern California]]|first=Justin|last=Pritchard|date=August 18, 2013|access-date=January 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927100320/http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Despite-Odds-Calif-City-Becomes-2-Newspaper-Town-220104281.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand|archive-date=September 27, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2014, the ''Long Beach Register'' was reduced to Sundays only, and was distributed as an insert in the ''Orange County Register''. In August of the same year, just sixteen months after its much-publicized launch, Freedom Communications announced it would cease publication of the ''Long Beach Register'' completely,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-long-beach-register-stops-publishing-20141228-story.html | first1=Stuart | last1=Pfeifer | first2=Andrew | last2=Khouri | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | title=Long Beach Register stops publishing | date=December 28, 2014 | access-date=January 5, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712060827/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-long-beach-register-stops-publishing-20141228-story.html | archive-date=July 12, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> citing lack of reader and advertiser interest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/12/long_beach_register_ends_12-28-14.php|title=Long Beach Register, Like Los Angeles Register, is Now a Collector's Item|first=Matt|last=Coker|date=December 29, 2014|work=Navel Gazing|access-date=November 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016150045/http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/12/long_beach_register_ends_12-28-14.php|archive-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Radio===
Long Beach is part of the Los Angeles [[designated market area|DMA]] radio and television markets. Although a few radio stations have had studios in Long Beach over the years, including the 1980s [[Alternative rock|alternative music]] and later [[hard rock]] station [[KNAC]], the only remaining radio stations in Long Beach are the jazz and blues station [[KKJZ]] on the [[California State University, Long Beach|Cal State Long Beach]] campus, and the [[Christian radio]] broadcaster [[KFRN]]. The most recent radio station to grace the Long Beach airways is public radio station KLBP, 99.1, a low-power station, which started broadcasting in December 2018.

===Online===
Long Beach has a number of online news outlets, including the Long Beach Post,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://lbpost.com/about-us/ |title=About us • Long Beach Post |access-date=December 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121173107/https://lbpost.com/about-us/ |archive-date=January 21, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> Long Beach Local News,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://longbeachlocalnews.com/ |title=Long Beach Local News: Latest Breaking News, Video |access-date=December 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924200204/https://longbeachlocalnews.com/ |archive-date=September 24, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Modern Times of Long Beach,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.moderntimeslb.com/ |title=News &#124; the Modern Times of Long Beach |access-date=December 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220213719/https://www.moderntimeslb.com/ |archive-date=December 20, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> FORTHE,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://forthe.org/ |title=Home - FORTHE |access-date=December 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408002441/https://forthe.org/ |archive-date=April 8, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> and LBReport.com.<ref>{{cite web |title=LBReport.com: News, Politics, Opinion, Community, Serving Long Beach, California|url=https://www.lbreport.com/index.htm |website=www.lbreport.com |publisher=Bill Pearl}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Saltzgaver |first1=Harry |title=Journalism Scholarship Honoring Bill Pearl Launched at Long Beach State |url=https://www.presstelegram.com/2021/02/25/journalism-scholarship-honoring-bill-pearl-launched-at-long-beach-state/ |work=Press Telegram |date=February 26, 2021}}</ref>