El Sol de Salinas

El Sol de Salinas publishing on November 13, 1968, and it considered to be the oldest and largest Spanish weekly newspaper on California's central coast.[2] The paper is produced by The Salinas Californian, and both papers are owned by the Gannett Company, which also owns the USA Today Network.[4]

El Sol's parent company, Gannett, has been criticized for publishing content in local papers that was not relevant to those local communities, as a result of managing too many papers under one editorial structure.[5] Much of El Sol's content is translated content from its parent newspaper, The Salinas Californian, rather than original content for the local Spanish-speaking communities.[6]

El Sol is the paper of record for Spanish-language public notices from Monterey County, including Monterey's Treasurer-Tax Collector.[7]

Valentin Mendoza, who had worked as editor of El Sol for many years, left in 2015.[8]

In 2017, Silas Lyon was named Executive Editor over the north central team of California papers, which includes El Sol.[9] Lyon's hiring, and the firing of previous editor Pete Wevurski, was part of a financial restructuring across the Gannett Company and included a number of other layoffs.[3]