The final Wednesday edition of Kenai’s Peninsula Clarion will be printed and delivered on Wednesday, June 26, after the parent company, Alabama-based Carpenter Media, decided to trim from two days a week to just one. The newspaper, as so many are, is slowly become an online publication.
“We will publish our last Saturday paper July 6 and deliver readers a weekly paper every Friday following,” the newspaper announced Friday.
One year ago, the Peninsula Clarion and Juneau Empire went from five days week down to two days for their print editions, and, along with Homer News, took the printing work to a firm outside the state.
At the same time, Carpenter Media Group, which acquired Sound Publishing earlier this year, announced it is laying off 62 people in the Northwest, including half of the unionized employees at the Everett Herald. Carpenter owns more than 40 newspapers in Washington and about 200 publications altogether.
Neither the Homer News nor the Juneau Empire have announced similar moves to reducing the print edition. The Empire prints twice a week and Homer prints once.
