The Palisadian-Post will relaunch Monday as a digital-first multimedia news platform, debuting a redesigned website on its 98th anniversary after shutting down following the Palisades Fire.
Longtime Pacific Palisades residents Laura and Tim Schneider recently acquired the newspaper.
“There are a lot of reasons to love the Palisades. It is beautiful. Its community is close-knit,” Laura Schneider told NPR last week. “But one of the reasons that we fell in love with the Palisades was because it had this treasure of a small-town newspaper that focused on local people and local stories.”
Tim Schneider will serve as publisher of the publication, which has been a fixture in the coastal neighborhood since its founding in 1928.
“We want this to be among the many wonderful comeback stories for Pacific Palisades,” Schneider said in an earlier statement.
The couple said the publication will relaunch with a focus on digital distribution aimed at reaching Palisades residents currently living across California, in more than 30 states and in several countries.
“After the fire, we felt like there was never a more urgent need to have an authoritative fact-check source of information for the community,” Tim Schneider told NPR. “So, we really felt it was part of the civic infrastructure of Pacific Palisades that needed to be rebuilt. ”
A printed edition is expected to return later following community feedback, according to the couple.
Laura Schneider, a former newspaper executive who worked for Gannett and the Los Angeles Times, said the publication aims to reconnect residents and highlight recovery efforts in the community.
The Palisades Fire destroyed more than 3,000 structures and killed 12 people last year.
“We want the Palisadian-Post to reflect and uplift the incredible work being done by the people and organizations of Pacific Palisades,” she said.
Tim Schneider previously founded Schneider Publishing Company and launched SportsTravel magazine.
The newspaper will be online at palipost.com/.