The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner eliminated its Saturday edition this weekend and moved to a weekend edition published on Sundays.
The newspaper is the latest to reduce its newsprint editions. It is now owned by the Helen E. Snedden Foundation, which purchased the newspaper in 2016. It remains the second-largest newspaper in Alaska, after the Anchorage Daily News, and is the farthest-north daily newspaper in America.
The announcement of the change was made in early August by Publisher Virginia Farmier, who is also the executive director of the Helen E. Snedden Foundation, nonprofit created in 2012.
The Fairbanks newspaper had $4,511,534 in revenues in 2020, down from $5,394,499 in 2019.
Earlier this year, the Juneau Empire, the third largest newspaper in Alaska, moved to a Wednesday and Saturday print edition. The Anchorage Daily News ceased printing a Saturday edition several years ago, and the Anchorage Press stopped print publication earlier this year.
