Company Profile

Company Description:

Embarcadero Media, founded in 1979 by CEO Bill Johnson, operates three community newspapers, eight news and entertainment websites and publishes specialty publications and digital media enterprises on the San Francisco Peninsula and in the East Bay. The company employs approximately 45 people at its headquarters in Palo Alto and its East Bay office in Pleasanton.

Embarcadero Media is independent and locally-owned by Johnson, a Palo Alto resident, and 30 other individual shareholders and publishes the Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac in Menlo Park and the Pleasanton Weekly newspapers. As the first publisher to host its entire editorial content on the web in 1994, it also operates comprehensive 24/7 news and information community websites in those areas, as well as in Mountain View, Redwood City, Livermore, Danville and San Ramon. It's also home to lifestyle blogs The Six Fifty and Peninsula Foodist.