James Strohn Copley was a journalist and newspaper publisher. He published the San Diego Union The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune

-Predecessors:The predecessor newspapers of the Union-Tribune were:* San Diego Sun, founded 1861 and merged with the Evening Tribune in 1939.* San Diego Union, founded October 10, 1868.* Evening Tribune, founded December 2, 1895.-Ownership:...

and the San Diego Evening Tribune from 1947 until his death in 1973, and was President of the Inter American Press Association (1969 - 1970). His politics was "unabashedly conservative, Republican and pro-American". He had close associations with leading Republican of the era, including Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater

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, Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Agnew

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. Copley's presence was a chief reason that the Republican National Convention of 1972 was originally planned to be in San Diego.

Copley was adopted at age four by Col. Ira C. Copley, who later (in 1928) bought The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. Copley graduated from Yale

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 in 1939, and went into journalism, becoming the CEO of the Union-Tribune group on Ira Copley's death in 1947. He remained CEO until his death in 1973, when his wife, Helen K. Copley, took over.. The Union and the Tribune merged in 1992 to become The San Diego Union-Tribune. The Copley Press also published smaller papers in California and the Midwest, including the Torrance, California Daily Breeze, San Pedro, California News-Pilot, Aurora, Illinois Beacon-News, and the Burbank, California Daily Review.

According to Carl Bernstein

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, Copley, as CEO of Copley Press

Copley Press

Copley Press was a privately held newspaper business, founded in Illinois, but later based in La Jolla, California. Its flagship paper was The San Diego Union-Tribune.-Pulitzer Prizes:...

, cooperated with the Central Intelligence Agency

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, which had widespread contacts in the US media.

The University of San Diego

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 has a library named in honour of Copley and his wife (the Helen K. and James S. Copley Library). Copley resided in La Jolla, CA and often stayed at a second home in Borrego Springs, CA