{{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} The '''''San Diego Daily Transcript''''', also known as '''''The Daily Transcript''''', is an online newspaper covering business news in and around San Diego, California. Its print origins date to 1882, when it was called the '''''National City Record'''''; it took on its ''The Daily Transcript'' name in 1886.<ref name="hist"/> The original publisher was William Burgess.<ref name="hist"/>
It was considered official newspaper of record for San Diego, which would lead to its having a "bid board" where public notice would be printed of government contract work.<ref name="hist"/> As a consequence, ''The Daily Transcript'' became, in the words of one account of its history, "the business community's go-to publication for industry news and listings."<ref name="hist">{{cite news | url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/economy/sdut-daily-transcript-going-out-of-print-newspapers-2015jul22-story.html | title=Daily Transcript to close after 130 years | first=Jonathan | last=Horn | newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune | date=July 22, 2015}}</ref> By 2004, some 2.8 million copies were printed over the course of each year.<ref name="sdm">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30 | title=Paperless News | first=Christina | last=Bertsch | magazine=San Diego Magazine | date=August 2004 | page=30}}</ref>
It was one of the first newspapers to have an online presence, the '''San Diego Source''', which was launched in 1994 and existed for two decades.<ref name="sdm"/> By the mid-2010s, the paper had 6,000 paying web subscribers as compared to 1,500 subscribers to the print edition.<ref name="sdut"/> But times were tough all over for newspapers – even more so in this case because the online posting of government bid information took away much of its readership – and in 2015, ''The Daily Transcript'' was scheduled to close.<ref name="hist"/>
Instead, parts of it were bought by the Los Angeles–based Daily Journal Corporation, and carried on in a lesser way in an online form, but the original ''San Diego Source'' online entity was not part of the deal.<ref name="sdut">{{cite news | url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/economy/sdut-daily-transcript-name-purchased-will-publish-2015aug27-htmlstory.html | title=Daily Transcript gets new life | first=Lori | last=Weisberg | newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune | date=August 27, 2015}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.sdtranscript.com/SDThome.cfm ''Daily Transcript'' website] * [http://www.sddt.com/ ''San Diego Source'' archive website] * [http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20110620cwb#.WtIIGX8h1t8 125 years of ''The Daily Transcript'' timeline]
Category:Business newspapers published in the United States Category:Newspapers published in San Diego Category:Daily newspapers published in California Category:1882 establishments in California Category:Newspapers established in 1882
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