Civil and human rights activist and community organizer Shane Harris announced he has purchased the San Diego Monitor Newspaper and Business Journal, a publication founded in 1986 by the late Willie Morrow, a widely-known San Diego civic leader, entrepreneur, owner of a barber shop, creator of the Afro pick and 1979 founder of radio station XHRM-FM, now known as Magic 92.5.

Harris said he will have the title of publisher. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

A statement said Harris purchased the newspaper from Cheryl Morrow, Monitor publisher and daughter of Willie Morrow. Cheryl Morrow assumed operations of the Monitor prior to her father’s passing in 2022.

A spokesperson told Times of San Diego there are no paid subscribers of the tabloid paper. About 700 copies are printed ea

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