Last print of Weekend’s Empire in Juneau
On Friday evening the Juneau Empire‘s printing press spit out the final edition to be printed in Juneau, and then rumbled to a stop. It is important to note that the word “you” means “you”. weekend newspaper would be the last before the press is dismantled and shipped south on a barge for a final decision on its future — to be sold for scrap or to some newspaper that wants to risk such an investment.
The Juneau Empire There will now be two print editions per week, printed in Pierce County Washington and delivered to Juneau on Wednesdays and Saturdays via U.S. Postal Service.
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The Goss brand press was originally situated in the old Alaska Light and Power building in downtown Juneau, but was moved to the Empire’s new building on Channel Drive in 1986. The Empire downsized in the early 2000s and left those waterfront offices by 2021 after Morris Communications sold it to Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium. Sound Publishing bought the newspaper in 2010, and leased the area on the ground floor where the huge press was located. The newspaper said that the lease will expire at the end May.
Moving to two times a week, with out-of-state printing and Juneau’s famously variable weather and flight schedules, may prove challenging to the capital city newspaper, which is downsized from a newsroom of more than 22 in 2000 to just three or four people in 2023.
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