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About us: The Post was started in 2008 by Dave Price and Jim Pavelich. They were the founding publishers of the Palo Alto Daily News in 1995. The first edition of the Daily News was eight pages, but it steadily grew. By 2005, the Daily News was averaging 100 pages a day and had editions in five cities. In 2005, Price and Pavelich sold the Daily News.
After they left, the Daily News began to go downhill and today it has one small edition, which is a shadow of its former self.
In 2008, readers and advertisers convinced Price and Pavelich that Palo Alto and surrounding communities needed a newspaper like the one they used to publish. As fate would have it, when they began to look for a place to start the Post, the Daily News had just moved out of its downtown home at 324 High St., abandoning Palo Alto. So the Post grabbed that space and began printing a few weeks later.
By 2011, the Post was the No. 1 newspaper in the mid-Peninsula, leading in page counts, advertising inches and circlation. The Post is succeeding as a newspaper, not a website. The exclusive nature of our stories cause readers to pick up our papers, and in the process they see our ads. This "business model" works, while the online advertising business model for local news sites hasn't yet proven itself. Some of the Post's competitors are getting a hand from the government in order to stay in business. Here's an editorial we printed about that.