The Daily Post is published Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Palo Alto, California.
Address: 385 Forest Ave., Palo Alto CA 94301
Phone: (650) 328-7700
Post’s coverage area: Palo Alto, Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, East Palo Alto, Hillsborough, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, Stanford and Woodside.
Only some of the stories the Post prints are available on this website. To get all of the day’s local news, pick up a copy of the Post at more than 1,000 locations in the cities listed above.
History: The Daily Post was started in May 27, 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 went downhill and it devolved into one small edition that comes out once a week.
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 open an office, 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 Palo Alto and the greater mid-Peninsula area, leading in page counts, advertising inches and circulation.
In January 2013, the Post moved to a larger space at 385 Forest Ave., also in downtown Palo Alto.
In March 2015, the Post became the only daily newspaper in Palo Alto.
The Post has a reputation for aggressive reporting. For more than two years, the Post successfully fought in court to open up public records that showed a Redwood City-based sewer district paid $1.8 million to settle sexual harassment claims.
The Post won top regional awards for investigative reporting in 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017.
Back issues: Previous articles can be found on our archives page. Or you can look up an article from the past by going to the Palo Alto Public Library, Rinconada branch, 1313 Newell Road, and visiting the Reference Desk. Please DO NOT call or email the Post to get articles from the past. Our staff time is limited and retrieving past articles takes up time that could be better spent getting the news. That’s why our electronic archive exists.