SGVN to to print newspapers at OC Register facility
The newspapers that comprise the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group -- the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and Whittier Daily News -- announced on Friday that they will outsource their printing operations to the Orange County Register.
The papers had been published at a facility in Valencia owned by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which includes the Tribune, Star-News and Whittier Daily News. The move is part of a larger effort by the group to restructure its printing and production operations.
According to CEO of LANG, Ed Moss, "Outsourcing our printing will enable us to reallocate vital resources to our editorial and advertising sales efforts and refocus on our core mission of being the premium local content provider in the communities we serve."
The Tribune, Star-News and Whittier Daily News are part of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, a division of MediaNews Group, Inc., the nation's fourth largest newspaper company based in Denver, Colorado.
MediaNews Group and its affiliated companies privately own and operate nearly 60 daily newspapers in 13 states with daily and Sunday circulation of approximately 2.6 million and 2.9 million respectively.
LANG newspapers include the Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and Redlands Daily Facts.
The Los Angeles Daily News and Long Beach Press Telegram, which also print in Valencia, will outsource their operations to Southwest Offset Printing in Gardena. The company has been printing the Torrance Daily Breeze and several other of LANG's local weekly publications since 2005.
The papers had been published at a facility in Valencia owned by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which includes the Tribune, Star-News and Whittier Daily News. The move is part of a larger effort by the group to restructure its printing and production operations.
According to CEO of LANG, Ed Moss, "Outsourcing our printing will enable us to reallocate vital resources to our editorial and advertising sales efforts and refocus on our core mission of being the premium local content provider in the communities we serve."
The Tribune, Star-News and Whittier Daily News are part of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, a division of MediaNews Group, Inc., the nation's fourth largest newspaper company based in Denver, Colorado.
MediaNews Group and its affiliated companies privately own and operate nearly 60 daily newspapers in 13 states with daily and Sunday circulation of approximately 2.6 million and 2.9 million respectively.
LANG newspapers include the Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and Redlands Daily Facts.
The Los Angeles Daily News and Long Beach Press Telegram, which also print in Valencia, will outsource their operations to Southwest Offset Printing in Gardena. The company has been printing the Torrance Daily Breeze and several other of LANG's local weekly publications since 2005.
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Kevin Smith is business editor for the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group. Over the past 15 years, Smith has covered development, housing, employment, technology and financial trends for a variety of newspapers.
Ryan Carter covers business and the economy for the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group.
If the LANG was the "premier local content provider" as they claim they are they wouldn't be outsourcing their news printing operation to the OC. Of course, since the Singletons and the Zells of the publishing world started showing their faces outsourcing, downsizing, merging, and layoffs have become the norm. Sad.
No mention of all the production people being let go and the future of the Valencia printing plant. Can't really be efficient to haul newspapers from these locations to the readers of the named newspapers. What will that do to deadlines and delivery times?
Kurmugin:
This is what company's news release says about the future of the plant.
"The company is further evaluating long-term plans for its Valencia property as a non-production facility. Located just off the 5 Fwy and McBean Parkway, the building has been the main production and
distribution center for the Daily News since 1989."
Dog Spot, it makes perfect sense if by saying it will, "enable us to reallocate vital resources" they mean money. Because by closing their only two Union press rooms (Valencia and Long Beach), it will do just that.