Bruce Anderson

Bruce Anderson is the publisher and editor of the Northern California newspaper, Anderson Valley Advertiser (AVA), which he purchased in 1984 for a sum of $20,000. The New York Times described the AVA as "the country's most idiosyncratic and contentious weeklies." Anderson is known for publishing some of the most interesting, well-researched journalism in Northern California.

Anderson received a baseball athletic scholarship to attend California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, but later transferred to San Francisco State where he earned a B.A. in English. most notably for allegedly withholding evidence in the Bear Lincoln murder trial His son, Zack Anderson, Anderson is uncle to activist and American writer, Robert Mailer Anderson.

Anderson is in poor health and has scaled back his involvement with the Anderson Valley Advertiser no longer publishing a physical newspaper and outsourcing most work to freelancers.