In the storage room at the San Diego Reader's office, an open drawer reveals a 1989 issue. The alt-weekly is ending its print run after 52 years. Those issues are a sort of living record of the ...

When Jim Holman founded the San Diego Reader in late 1972, the city’s population was around 700,000. It cost $400 to print 20,000 newspapers. The cover story was about Horton Plaza — the downtown park ...

San Diego Reader has joined the long parade of periodicals to halt their print editions. The last printed issue of the alternative weekly was on February 13. The Reader is laying off production ...

Readers of the San Diego Reader — an alternative press institution for more than 50 years — have seen their last print edition. Jim Holman, the weekly paper’s founder and editor emeritus ...