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The Reporter (Vacaville)
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The Vacaville Reporter is a newspaper in the city of Vacaville, California.[2] It also covers surrounding Solano County, California, including Fairfield and Dixon.
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The first issue of The Reporter was published on March 10, 1883 by editor and proprietor James D. McClain.[3] A year later the paper was bought by attorney Raleigh Barcar.[4] On March 4, 1885, Barcar changed the paper's name to Judicion.[5][4] The word "Judicion" was invented by Barcar. He wrote it was a word of "merit" and intended it to be "a refinement of Gumption," which he thought inelegant.[6]
On Feb. 4, 1886, McClain started another rival paper in Vacaville called The Reporter.[7][4] A.B. Leach of Judicion sued McClain for $2,500 to stop him from using that name.[8] On Jan. 19, 1889, Henry I. Fisher and Albert Sears started the Vaca Valley Enterprise,[9][4] which Barcar bought in 1891 and consolidated with Judicion.[10] In 1892, Barcar bought McClain's paper and renamed Judicion back to The Reporter. In 1901, R.B. Stitt launched the Vacaville Leader and Barcar soon bought this paper as well.[4]
In April 1902, Clayton L. Adsit became a co-owner with Raleigh Barcar,[11] and two years later Edward "Andy" Cleveland bought out Barcar in October 1903.[12] Adsit worked as the paper's editor until his sudden death in March 1935.[13] That July, plant employee John Rico purchased the interests of the deceased Adsit.[14] Andrews retired in 1942 and sold out to Rico.[15]
The Rico family operated the paper until selling it to MediaNews Group in 2002. At that time the paper had a circulation of 17,820 on weekdays and 19,201 on Sundays.[16][17] In 2013, MediaNews Group merged and became Digital First Media which is controlled by Alden Global Capital.[18]
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