Anderson Valley Advertiser
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The Anderson Valley Advertiser is a digital newspaper covering Mendocino County. From the 1950s until 2024, it published a small weekly paper in the broadsheet format.<ref name="fre">Frederiksen, Justine (May 3, 2024). "Final print edition of the Anderson Valley Advertiser out this week". Ukiah Daily Journal. Retrieved July 4, 2025.</ref>
History
The Anderson Valley Advertiser (AVA) was founded in 1956 by Elizabeth and Steven Malgrem in Boonville, California.<ref name="oac">Anderson Valley Advertiser Records. Online Archive of California. Retrieved July 6, 2025.</ref> The paper was purchased in 1983 by Bruce Anderson,<ref>Gemperlein, Joyce (May 12, 1996). "A Really Free Press". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 22, 23, 24, 31.</ref> who expanded its national coverage.<ref name="oac"/>
Anderson left the AVA in 2004 for Oregon where he tried to start another weekly. It failed and Anderson bought the AVA back in July 2007. The paper enjoyed a modest national circulation during its print run. It is now online only. Anderson describes himself as "a socialist with strong, nay overwhelming, anarchist instincts."<ref>Smith, Dave (October 22, 2014). "Mendocino Talking: Bruce Anderson". Anderson Valley Advertiser. Retrieved July 4, 2025.</ref>
Masthead
The old masthead in the print version billed the paper as "America's last newspaper."<ref name="fre"/> It featured mottoes borrowed from the French Revolution and the Industrial Workers of the World:
- Fanning the Flames of Discontent! (The IWW's Little Red Songbook is sub-titled "To Fan the Flames of Discontent")
- Peace to the Cottages! War on the Palaces! (The motto of Georg Büchner's Hessian Courier)
- All Happy - None Rich - None Poor
Various quotations are distributed throughout every issue of the paper. Examples include:
- "Be as radical as reality."<ref name="fre"/> - Lenin
- "Newspapers should have no friends."<ref name="fre"/> - Joseph Pulitzer
Contributors
Contributors include: