EVERETT — The Daily Herald moved its office space to a location near downtown Everett in mid-September after leaving its previous building on 41st Street.
The new office, located at 2500 Hewitt Avenue, is only a couple of blocks from the city’s downtown core.
It’s a significant downsizing from the previous location: The Herald’s old office space totaled 15,915 square feet, while its new space amounts to 3,767 square feet.
The Daily Herald’s publisher, Carrie Radcliff, said a main goal of the move was getting closer to the core of Everett.
“I’m excited about being back closer to downtown,” Radcliff said in an interview. “The visibility up here on Hewitt is going to be fabulous.”
For much of its early years, The Daily Herald was located in the heart of Everett. In 1904, the paper operated out of an office on Colby Avenue and Wall Street. Then, in 1959, The Herald offices moved to the intersection of Grand Avenue and California Street. There, the company also operated an on-site printing press.
In 2013, the newspaper moved to a large office complex on 41st Street in Everett. That building, originally constructed in 1981 for General Telephone and Electrics, known as GTE, was later sold and became office space for a variety of businesses, including Ziply Fiber and health care provider Optum.
After the move to 41st Street, The Herald began printing its newspapers at a facility near Paine Field in Everett. In 2022, Sound Publishing opened a new regional printing facility located in Lakewood in Pierce County, and The Herald began printing there.
That Lakewood facility is set to close as it is financially unviable, said John Carr, the senior vice president of Carpenter Media Group. Carpenter Media Group owns The Daily Herald’s parent company, Black Press Media.
Factors contributing to that closure included region-wide declines in print circulation, fewer print advertisers, smaller average press runs and a consolidation of printing locations across the Pacific Northwest, Carr wrote in an email. In the long term, the company also expects readers to increasingly rely on digital news sources, he wrote.
“Our franchise is not a press or paper. That is just one of several delivery methods,” Carr wrote. “Our franchise is local news and information that readers seek, trust and find important in their daily lives. As long as readers want to know about local schools, land use, crime, business, what local officials are up to and what is going on in their neighborhoods, we are committed to being the best source for them.”
The Seattle Times first reported on the press’ closure. The Herald is now printed at a facility in Skagit County.
The newspaper decided to move its office as the company’s lease at its 41st Street location was ending and it sought to downsize, Radcliff said. When The Herald first moved to that building in 2013, the company had 209 employees, compared to 30 currently.
“Hopefully the employees like it and they feel good energy, camaraderie, teamwork,” Radcliff said. “That’s what I hope for, and that will keep The Herald strong and serving the community for a long time.”
The Herald now has a 10-year lease at the Hewitt Avenue location.
The Daily Herald began publishing in 1901 and will celebrate its 125th anniversary next year. In 1974, The Washington Post Co. bought the newspaper and owned it until 2013, when Black Press Media acquired The Herald. In 2024, Black Press Media was sold to Carpenter Media Group, along with private investment firms.
Will Geschke: 425-339-3443; william.geschke@heraldnet.com; X: @willgeschke.
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