Alaska’s most-read newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News, to cut back printing to two days a week

Alaska’s astir wide publication newspaper, nan Anchorage Daily News, is cutting its people schedule to 2 days a week.

The ADN’s people version will beryllium disposable connected Sundays and Wednesdays starting nan week of July 15, according to an announcement Monday.

The move will let nan ADN to attraction connected its integer products, wherever it reaches nan immense mostly of its audience, president and proprietor Ryan Binkley said. Only astir 7% of readers really publication nan printed paper, he said.

“It sewage to a constituent wherever location conscionable weren’t capable of them to prolong it, and it conscionable didn’t make sense,” Binkley said. “You know, it takes a batch of clip and power to nutrient a regular news merchandise that is custom, and bespoke, and manufactured nan time of and hand-delivered to your home. And astatine a definite point, that’s time, power that we tin use, amended use, if it’s directed toward nan platforms that our customers are on.”

According to nan announcement, nan alteration will consequence successful nan nonaccomplishment of 3 positions, each related to distributing nan printed paper.

The Anchorage Daily News revenge for bankruptcy successful 2017, nether its erstwhile owner, Alice Rogoff, and the Binkley family bought it retired of bankruptcy court.

The displacement to printing 2 days a week is not a awesome that nan newspaper is struggling again financially, Binkley said.

“I mean, if anything, this is simply a move that will fortify nan paper, allowing america to attraction connected our customers and nan platforms they prefer. The paper’s still healthy, still profitable,” he said.

Still, arsenic a regular people scholar himself, Binkley said he understands why fans of printed newspapers mightiness beryllium glum to perceive astir nan change.

“It’s difficult to deliberation of, benignant of, excessively galore touchstones of American life for nan past period that are arsenic iconic arsenic a regular newspaper successful your hands, aliases connected your doorstep aliases pinch a cup of java successful nan morning,” he said. “So it’s not a determination that we took lightly.”

The Daily News has printed six days a week since 2017, erstwhile it eliminated its Saturday edition.

After it shifts to printing 2 days a week, nan ADN will proceed to connection regular news contented astatine ADN.com 7 days a week and its e-edition, a integer replica of nan people edition, each time connected a Sunday-to-Friday schedule, according to nan announcement.