William Russell Harris: Journalist was North County Times managing editor
Tarcy Connors
February 22, 2019
Filed under Cardiff by the Sea, Carlsbad, Carmel Valley, Del Mar, Encinitas, Escondido, Fallbrook, IN MEMORIAM, La Costa, Leucadia, North County, Oceanside, Olivenhain, Poway, Ramona, Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Penasquitos, Rancho Santa Fe, Region, San Diego County, San Elijo Hills, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Valley Center, Vista
William Russell Harris, who guided the Blade-Citizen and North County Times newsrooms to scores of awards and mentored dozens of newspaper people, died Feb. 21 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Current earns awards for news site, Encinitas electoral coverage
North Coast Current
July 18, 2018
Filed under Business, BUSINESS NOTES, Media
The North Coast Current was recognized for local news excellence with four awards Tuesday, July 18, from the Society of Professional Journalists San Diego Pro Chapter.
Reporting live from Carlsbad High School: A spotlight on CHSTV
Michele Leivas
October 18, 2016
Filed under Carlsbad, Education, Encinitas, K-12, La Costa, Media, NORTH COAST CAMPUS
Carlsbad High School's news channel — CHSTV — is not the first of its kind, but it is one of the best, as its award-winning coverage attests.
Definition of nonprofit journalism enters gray area in Encinitas
Camille Lozano
October 17, 2014
Filed under Cardiff by the Sea, Encinitas, Encinitas City Election, Leucadia, Media, Olivenhain, Politics
The not-for-profit news model has recently emerged as an increasingly viable form for sustaining media organizations in a time when the future of traditional media is questioned and for-profit institutions report weakened readership. But as nonprofit news organizations rise in number, concerns have...
POV: Stop the rhetorical insanity
Roman S. Koenig
October 28, 2012
Filed under Commentary, DIALOGUE, Elections, Encinitas, Media
Leave Jim Kydd alone. Some of you might find this statement surprising coming from the editorial director of the North Coast Current, especially those of you who have chosen to use recent coverage in this publication as a passive endorsement of typical Encinitas-style “hate politics.” I found...
Editorial: Who watches the watchdog?
North Coast Current
October 22, 2012
Filed under DIALOGUE, Editorial, Encinitas
It’s bad enough that the local media market has virtually been taken over by ultra-conservative developer Douglas Manchester, relegating the daily North County Times and U-T San Diego (now one media outlet) to a platform for his political whims. But Coast News Publisher Jim Kydd? And hidden in plain...
Newspaper publisher quietly steps into the political fray
Ernesto Lopez
October 20, 2012
Filed under Cardiff by the Sea, Encinitas, Encinitas City Election, Leucadia, Media, Olivenhain
Aside from urging Encinitas voters in an Oct. 12 editorial to “please, please, please” end the tenure of City Council members Jerome Stocks and Mark Muir, The Coast News publisher Jim Kydd is also using a separate website to sway the community. Kydd is the registered owner of the political action site ...
Coast News launches online pay wall
Ernesto Lopez
April 27, 2012
Filed under Encinitas, LOCAL WIDE WEB
The economic reality for media has caught up to longtime North County free weekly newspaper The Coast News. It recently launched a pay wall on its website, which gets nearly 50,000 hits per month. “I (was) not getting any money from the Web page,” said Jim Kydd, the newspaper’s publisher. “And...
Editorial: A new start in Encinitas
North Coast Current
April 7, 2012
Filed under DIALOGUE, Editorial
History is turning an important page in Encinitas in wake of the announcement that the Paul Ecke Ranch is changing hands. It’s with that sense of history – and the future – that the North Coast Current relaunches its news production. Surely, we can expect a multitude of voices in the coming...
Newspaper publisher extends greetings
North Coast Current
February 11, 2012
Filed under Encinitas, Local History, Top Stories
Editor´s Note: This was the first editorial published in the Encinitas Coast Dispatch on Feb. 12, 1925. It is reproduced here in full from the North Coast Current archives. After a careful survey of the Southern California newspaper field we have located in this pleasant community of Encinitas as...
Remembering William ‘Magpie’ Maguire
Mary Cate O’Malley
February 14, 2009
Filed under COASTLINE, Encinitas, Region
William Anthony “Magpie” Maguire, 65, a third-generation San Diegan and Encinitas icon, died New Year’s Day in his historic Encinitas Highlands home after a long illness. Maguire, also known as Tony, was an artist, photographer, collector of rare books, bee keeper, and free thinker who touched...
