Embarcadero Media

Embarcadero Media
Statusdefunct
PredecessorThe Embarcadero Publishing Company
Founded1979 (1979)
FounderBill Johnson, Robert Heinen, Roger Sanford
Defunctearly 2024
SuccessorEmbarcadero Media Foundation
Headquarters location450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, California
Publication typesPalo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto Online
Official websitewww.embarcaderomediagroup.com

Embarcadero Media was a publishing company for four decades whose titles included the Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac of Menlo Park, the Mountain View Voice, the Pleasanton Weekly, The Six Fifty, and Palo Alto Online.

The company was founded as The Embarcadero Publishing Company in 1979 by William Johnson and was renamed Embarcadero Media in 2009. [1]

Johnson served as president and CEO until 2022, when he announced that he would retire and be succeeded by Adam Dawes, while remaining chairman of the board of directors.[2]

In November 2023, the company announced the establishment of a non-profit entity that would continue publishing the community weeklies. [3]

  1. ^ "NAME CHANGE FROM THE EMBARCADERO PUBLISHING COMPANY Control ID LBA23021284". California Secretary of State. 10 June 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Weekly publisher announces retirement after four decades at the helm". Palo Alto Online. June 10, 2022.
  3. ^ "Bay Area media company Embarcadero Media announces transition to nonprofit" (PDF). embarcaderomediafoundation.org. Embarcadero Media Foundation. 15 November 2023. Retrieved 24 December 2023.