The ''San Fernando Valley Su''n is a newspaper published in

San Fernando, California San Fernando (Spanish language, Spanish for "Ferdinand III of Castile, St. Ferdinand") is a General-law municipality, general-law city in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It ...

near

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, USA.

History

The newspaper was established in 1904 by Herbert W. Brooks. Over the years, the name and format of the newspaper changed several times. After Brooks, the newspaper was purchased by

Robert K. Straus Robert Kenneth Straus (October 22, 1905 – February 24, 1997) was a Jewish-American newspaper publisher and politician who served on the New York City Council from 1938 to 1941, representing Manhattan. He bought the '' San Fernando Valley Sun'' i ...

, an heir to the

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fortune. It was later acquired by Michael Flannery, who sold it to the

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. It was purchased by the Barrios family in 1985. In 2001, it was purchased by

Sev Aszkenazy Severyn Ashkenazy (born 1936) is a Polish-born American hotelier. Early life Severyn Ashkenazy was born in 1936 in Tarnopol, then part of Poland, now in Western Ukraine.

, a real estate developer, and his wife, Martha Diaz-Aszkenazy, a businesswoman. On October 8, 2004, Congressman

Howard Berman Howard Lawrence Berman (born April 15, 1941) is an American attorney and retired politician who served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from California from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party (United St ...

gave a brief speech to highlight the one-hundred anniversary of the newspaper.

Controversy

Mario Hernandez, former mayor of San Fernando, contended that developer Sev Aszkenazy used his publication that he owns, the San Fernando Sun, to stoke controversies in retaliation for how officials did not give him what wanted on his development projects. Hernandez said that he uses the publication to influence public opinion to his advantage San Fernando community members argued that Aszkenazy newspaper reporting is biased and has sought to retaliate for how his proposals for construction work were rejected. Aszkenazy was accused of using his publication to bully others.

References

1904 establishments in California Newspapers established in 1904 Newspapers published in Greater Los Angeles San Fernando, California {{California-newspaper-stub