El Sol de Salinas is a paper focusing on news and information for Hispanic communities in the Monterey County, California area.
[3] El Sol de Salinas publishing on November 13, 1968, and it considered to be the oldest and largest Spanish weekly newspaper on California's central coast.
[7] Valentin Mendoza, who had worked as editor of El Sol for many years, left in 2015.
[8] In 2017, Silas Lyon was named Executive Editor over the north central team of California papers, which includes El Sol.
[9] Lyon's hiring, and the firing of previous editor Pete Wevurski, was part of a financial restructuring across the Gannett Company and included a number of other layoffs.