Santa Monica’s only daily paper digs its heels in
The Santa Monica Daily Press turns 2 years old today.
The paper hit the streets in hopes of becoming the city’s daily source of local news. Our mission was to not only inform you of what’s going on in your town every day, but to provide you with a forum to debate issues crucial to life here.
We hope we’ve done that and more. The SMDP has gone from being a scrappy start-up that was-n’t taken seriously to what we believe is the paper of record for Santa Monica. That’s because we publish every day — except Sunday — and focus on issues that are pertinent to people who live, work and play here.
There were plenty of skeptics who said the SMDP couldn’t survive. They pointed to the saturated marketplace, the weak economy and the cost of doing business here. But because of community support, we’re still here and have no plans of leaving.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 13, 2003. Read the original PDF.