Empire to Stop Daily Editions

By Sentinel Staff

The Juneau Empire, Alaska’s capital city newspaper since 1912, announced Monday that it will change from five-day-a week publication to twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday, starting May 3.

The news came in a message to readers by publisher David Rigas and Editor Ben Hohenstattx in Monday’s edition of the Empire.

The officials said that effective May 3, the Empire will be printed in Washington state, with copies delivered to Juneau for distribution. Their announcement of the changes is reprinted on Page 2 of today’s Sentinel.

Since 2018 the Juneau Empire has been owned by Sound Publishing, an Alaska subsidiary of the Canadian media company Black Press.

The Juneau Empire’s planned conversion to twice weekly publication will leave The Daily Sitka Sentinel and the Ketchikan Daily News as the only daily newspapers that remain in publication in Southeast Alaska.