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The Palisadian-Post is a bi-weekly subscription newspaper serving Pacific Palisades, California, published every other Thursday. The paper was founded in 1928 and is owned by Alan Smolinisky.
On May 4, 1928, Telford Work published the first edition of The Palisadian, a twelve-page weekly tabloid. Work was a graduate of the University of Southern California who operated the Selma Enterprise for six years and a.small chain of five papers in Fresno and Tulare counties. Work moved to Palisades two years prior to wokk as director of public relations for the Pacific Palisades Association.
In 1934, Clifford D. Clearwater assumed control of the paper. He was one of the first setters of Pacific Palisades and published The Palisadian until his death in 1956. His Zola Clearwater widow ran the paper for a few years until selling it in 1960 to twin brothers Charles B. Brown and William W. Brown, owners of the rival Pacific Palisades Post. The two papers were then consolidated.
In August 1981, the Browns sold the Palisadian-Post, North Shore Mail and Brentwood Post to Small Newspapers of Kankakee, Illinois. Around that time the circulation was 4,100. The Small family operated the paper until December 2012, when they sold it to real estate entrepreneur Alan Smolinisky.
After the sale, editor Bill Bruns announced his plans to retire at the end of the year. He had worked at the Post for two decades. Instead, Smolinisky laid off Bruns and five other journalists. He also let go at least four office workers, shut down the printing press and sold the office building for $3 million. Printing from then on was outsourced.
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