is a paper focusing on news and information for Hispanic communities in the

Monterey County, California Monterey County ( ), officially the County of Monterey, is a county (United States), county located on the Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 439,035. The count ...

area. It is printed twice weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays. It has a circulation of 13,000 copies. It is edited by Silas Lyon.

History

publishing on November 13, 1968, and it considered to be the oldest and largest Spanish weekly newspaper on California's central coast. The paper is produced by

The Salinas Californian ''The Salinas Californian'', sometimes referred to as ''The Californian'', is a digital and print newspaper published in Salinas, California, covering mainly the Salinas Valley. Founded in 1871 as ''The Salinas City Index'', it went through seve ...

, and both papers are owned by the

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, which also owns the USA Today Network. ''El Sol'' 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. 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. ''El Sol'' is the paper of record for Spanish-language public notices from Monterey County, including Monterey's Treasurer-Tax Collector. Valentin Mendoza, who had worked as editor of ''El Sol'' for many years, left in 2015. In 2017, Silas Lyon was named Executive Editor over the north central team of California papers, which includes ''El Sol''. 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.

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