The Press Democrat
Kienan O'Doherty is an experienced sports journalist currently serving as a Sports Reporter and Digital Producer at The Press Democrat since June 2022, covering local and professional sports in Northern California. Previously, Kienan held the position of Sports Editor at Perry County Tribune, where coverage included Ohio State football and the Columbus Blue Jackets, along with managing social media accounts and engaging with high school journalism students. Kienan's background includes roles as a Sports Writer at Logan Daily News, Creative Writer for the University of San Francisco, and Editor-In-Chief of Ohio Wesleyan University's student-run newspaper, showcasing a strong commitment to journalism and digital media. Kienan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism with a minor in Spanish from Ohio Wesleyan University.
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The Press Democrat
The very first newspaper in Santa Rosa, the parent of today's Press Democrat, was begun in 1857, just three years after Santa Rosa was chosen as the seat of Sonoma County and seven years after California became a part of the United States. Called the Sonoma Democrat this newspaper was a four-page weekly. Its name reflected the politicsof the Santa Rosa and Russian River valleys, which were settled in the 1840s and '50s by farmers from Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee. The founding publisher was Alpheus Russell, a merchant with some newspaper experience who came to open a general store on Third Street. John Taylor, a prosperous rancher south of the new town, encouraged Russell to establish the paper, giving him a five-dollar gold piece for the first subscription. At the end of a year, Russell sold the paper to printer E.R. Budd, who sold it again in 1860. The new owner was Thomas Thompson, a young Virginian who had edited Petaluma's Sonoma County Journal five years earlier at the age of 17.