The Press Democrat
Martin Espinoza is an experienced journalist currently serving as a Senior Reporter at The Press Democrat since August 2004. Espinoza has also worked as a Visiting Journalist in the Metro section of The New York Times for a brief period in 2008. Prior to these roles, Espinoza gained experience as a Writer and Editor at The Jersey Journal and as a Writer and Assistant News Editor at The San Francisco Bay Guardian from 1991 to 1997. Additionally, Espinoza worked as a Reporter for El Financiero International. Educationally, Martin Espinoza holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University-Sacramento, earned between 1983 and 1988.
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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.