Peninsula Daily News Explained

Peninsula Daily News
Type:Daily newspaper
Foundation:1916, as Port Angeles Evening News
Owners:Sound Publishing
Publisher:Eran Kennedy
Editor:Leah Leach
Circulation:8,087
Circulation Date:2023
Circulation Ref:[1]
Headquarters:305 West First Street, Port Angeles, Washington, U.S.
Issn:1050-7000
Oclc:17023385
Website:peninsuladailynews.com

The Peninsula Daily News is a daily newspaper printed Sundays through Fridays (for publication days of Monday through Saturday), covering the northern Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington, United States.

The paper's main offices are in Port Angeles, with news offices in Port Townsend and Sequim. It publishes separate editions for Clallam County and Jefferson County.[2]

History

In 1963, the Evening News made several innovations to expand of its service to nearby Forks and Sequim, with a dedicated correspondent in each city. Advertising revenue and circulation numbers increased, with the total circulation growing from 6,650 to 7,000.[3]

In the 2000s the Daily News also produced Sequim This Week.[4]

Sound Publications of Poulsbo, Washington, the largest publisher of community newspapers in Washington and a division of Canadian publisher Black Press, purchased the Peninsula Daily News for an undisclosed sum in November 2011. The paper's previous owner, Horvitz Newspapers of Bellevue, Washington, had held it for 17 years.[5]

The same day it purchased the Peninsula Daily News, Sound Publications also bought a competing weekly newspaper publisher, Olympic View Publishing Company, owner of the Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum, along with local real estate publications.[6]

Both the Daily News and the former Olympic View publications are printed at Sound Publications' "state-of-the-art" presses in Everett. The closure of the Daily News presses in Port Angeles in November 2011 cost 20 full- and part-time pressroom and mailroom jobs.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-04-01 . Sound Publishing Media Kit 2023 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230428084330/https://www.soundpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sound_Media_Kit.pdf . 2023-04-28 . 2023-04-28 . soundpublishing.com.
  2. Web site: Contact the Peninsula Daily News . PeninsulaDailyNews.com . March 10, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120214050100/http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/section/pdncontact . February 14, 2012 .
  3. News: Langer . Ralph . November 23, 1963 . Circulation: Small Daily Spreads Out, Makes It Pay . English . . Duncan McIntosh . 2021-02-19.
  4. News: Moynihan . Shawn . February 2008 . NewsPeople . English . . Duncan McIntosh . 2021-02-19.
  5. Web site: Peninsula Daily News purchased by Sound Publishing . November 1, 2011 . SoundPublishing.com . March 10, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120302030105/http://www.soundpublishing.com/index.php/corporate/article/peninsula_daily_news_purchased_by_sound_publishing/ . March 2, 2012 .
  6. Web site: Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum purchased by Sound Publishing . November 1, 2011 . SoundPublishing.com . March 10, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120302013905/http://www.soundpublishing.com/index.php/corporate/article/sequim_gazette_and_forks_forum_purchased_by_sound_publishing/ . March 2, 2012 .
  7. News: Ollikainen . Rob . Peninsula Daily News Sold to Canadian Group . November 1, 2011 . Peninsula Daily News . March 11, 2012.