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Metro San Diego Communications Inc. is the parent company of a media enterprise in San Diego County, California.
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Publications and websites
The company's flagship publication is San Diego Metropolitan magazine, a 20,050 monthly business magazine. It also owns the North Park News, a 12,500 circulation monthly newspaper serving the greater North Park community (Zip code 92104) and Uptown-Examiner, a twice-weekly newspaper that focuses on running fictitious business and legal statements along with news of interest to small business owners. The company's primary online site features material published in the monthly business magazine plus a Daily Business Report that is e-mailed to subscribers, the Reel Story movie reviews and business and event calendars. A specialty publications division serves the annual report and directory markets.
Management
Gary Shaw is the publisher and principal owner for all Metro San Diego Communications Inc. publications. Tim McClain is the executive editor for all Metro San Diego Communications Inc. publications. Shaw and McClain are no longer there.
San Diego Metropolitan special issues
San Diego Metropolitan History
San Diego Metropolitan was founded in 1986 by Sean Patrick Reily, a former account executive with an Orange County magazine. The publication started as a downtown-only newsprint magazine and then was expanded to include three editions serving the downtown, Mission Valley and Golden Triangle markets.
In 1995 Reily condensed the publications back to a single magazine with separate sections for each of the three areas. In July 1996, Reily sold the magazine to Gary Shaw, a long-time San Diego journalist and former editor of the San Diego Daily Transcript. Metro San Diego Communications Inc. was the corporation created to purchase the magazine and subsequent publications. Shaw brought on as his editor, and eventually minority partner, Tim McClain who had served as his managing editor at the Daily Transcript. John Davies, a prominent San Diego attorney, later bought a minority interest in the publication. Shaw introduced glossy pages and converted the magazine from a "pink" publication targeted at consumers and front-office workers to a business-lifestyle magazine. Covers were changed from featuring artwork to photographs of business, civic and non-profit leaders. It is one of the few major print publications in San Diego still 100 percent owned by local residents.