The Pacific Publishing Company is a

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-based commercial printer and

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. The company publishes newspapers in

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and along with ''Great Basin Sun'' in Nevada and ''Nevada Rancher'' magazine.

History

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media executive Tom Haley and five other investors formed Pacific Publishing Company (PPC) in 1990 to purchase the assets of 14 newspapers in

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with a combined circulation of 126,000 and 135 employees. From John Murray, owner of Murray Publishing Company, PPC purchased the ''Queen Anne News'', ''Magnolia News'', ''Masonic Tribune'', ''The Issaquah Press'', ''The Issaquah Valley Shopper'' and ''Argus Weekend.'' From John Flaherty, owner of Flaherty Newspapers, PPC purchased the ''Beacon Hill News'', ''Capitol Hill Times'', ''University Herald'', ''The North Central Outlook'', ''The'' ''Mercer Islander'', ''Madison Park Times'', ''South District Journal'' and ''Seattle's Police Beat''. In 1995, PPC sold ''The Issaquah Press'' to

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. The paper closed in February 2017 after publishing more than 6,000 editions over 117 years. By 2000, PPC had nine publications with a combine total circulation of 90,000 and employed 43 full-time workers and eight part-timers. In 2005, Haley sold PPC to Peter Bernhard, who owned several community newspapers in Nevada. In January 2007, PPC sold ''The Kirkland Courier'' to King County Publications, a subsidy of

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, and it was renamed to ''The Kirkland Reporter''. PPC originally purchased ''The Kirkland Courier'' in 1992, which at that time was a free weekly newspaper with a 17,000 circulation. PPC ran into financial difficulty during the global

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of 2007–2009, selling the ''Capitol Hill Times'' in July 2009 to Washington Legal Journal, a legal notice publisher. In January 2012, PPC shut down its ''South Seattle Beacon'' and ''North Seattle Herald-Outlook'' community newspapers. PPC reacquired the ''Capitol Hill Times'' on Jan. 1, 2015 from RIM Publications, the publishing wing of the foreclosure services company that took it over from PPC in 2012. PPC also acquired RIM's last two remaining Washington papers: the ''

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'' and ''The Eatonville Dispatch''. ''The'' ''Capitol Hill Times,'' founded in 1926, ceased as of 2020. A year later ''The'' ''Monroe Monitor'', founded in 1899, was merged into the ''

Snohomish County Tribune The ''Snohomish County Tribune'' is a weekly newspaper based in Snohomish County, Washington. It is owned by Pacific Publishing Company. History The predecessor to the newspaper was the ''Snohomish Weekly Sun'', which first came off the press ...

'' in November 2021.

Nevada News Group

Nevada News Group is a division of PPC operating in

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. Prior to 2022, Nevada News Group published six community newspapers along with a business publication and a ranching magazine. On Aug. 1, 2019, PPC acquired the assets of four publications from Sierra Nevada Media Group: the ''

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'' in Carson City, The ''Record-Courier'' in Gardnerville, the ''Fallon Lahontan Valley News'' and the ''Northern Nevada Business View'' in Reno. Nevada News Group was to operate these papers along with the other titles it published at the time: the ''Winnemucca Humboldt Sun'', ''Battle Mountain Bugle'', ''Lovelock Review-Miner'', ''Fallon and Fernley Mailbox News'', and ''Nevada Rancher'' magazine. On June 15, 2022, Owner/Publisher Peter Bernhard announced the ''Winnemucca Humboldt Sun'', ''Battle Mountain Bugle'' and ''Lovelock Review-Miner'' would be merged into a single publication called the ''Great Basin Sun''. Bernhard attributed this to the February 2022 closing of Press Works Ink, a printing press in Carson City owned by

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that printed all of PPC's Nevada newspapers. As a result of the press closure, PPC moved the printing of its Nevada newspapers out of state to Wesco Graphics in

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. In January 2025, PPC sold Nevada News Group to Eagle Valley Publishing. The sale included the ''Nevada Appeal'', ''The Record-Courier'', the ''Lahontan Valley News'' and ''Northern Nevada Business Weekly.'' PPC retained ownership of ''Great Basin Sun'' in Winnemucca and ''Nevada Rancher'' magazine.

Commercial Printing

PPC's Commercial Web Printing Division was first started within Murray Publishing in 1976. The facility is located near downtown Seattle at 636 S. Alaska Street, in

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near Georgetown. Pacific Publishing maintains two lines of cold-set web press operating 24 hours a day six days a week.

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