David Black of Sound Publishing has pulled the plug on the 10,600-circulation Kitsap Free Daily serving Kitsap County on Puget Sound, west of Seattle.
“We are temporarily suspending publication of the Free Daily to focus on our core products in Kitsap County,” says Lori Maxim, Vice President of West Sound Newspaper Operations. “The Daily is a fantastic product but we have decided to shift our focus to continued development of our online products and the community newspapers serving the Kitsap region.” Sound Publishing has six weeklies in the Kitsap area.
Here's a link to the announcement.
Black (no relation o Canadian-born British former media mogul Conrad Black) also group of 17 free dailies in British Columbia. The average circulation is 4,818 with the largest being the Victoria and Nanaimo editions at 10,000 each. Here's a profile free-daily.com did of him last month.
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While Free-Daily.com wants to see this industry developed, this site isn't about cheerleading. We report the bad news as well as the good, and we publish editorials highlighting problems and solutions.
E-mail free-daily@hotmail.com with tips, comments or criticisms.
About editor Clyde Davis.
Two other sites to visit:
• Free Daily Association of North America, where this blog can also be found along with contributions of many others.
• Newspaper Innovation, a comprehensive look at the worldwide free daily industry compiled by Amsterdam University associate professor Piet Bakker.
Here's our RSS link.
54 U.S./Canadian Free Dailies
- amNewYork
- Aspen Daily News
- Aspen Times
- Aurora (Colo.) Sentinel
- b (Baltimore)
- Berlin (N.H.) Daily Sun
- Boston Metro
- Briefing (Dallas)
- Calgary 24 hours
- Calgary Metro
- Cape Cod (Mass.) Day
- Colorado Daily (Boulder)
- Colorado Springs Ink
- Conway (N.H.) Daily Sun
- Denver Daily News
- East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Ariz.)
- Edmonton 24 hours
- Edmonton Metro
- Glenwood Springs (Colo.) Post Independent
- Halifax Metro
- Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Daily
- Kitsap (Wash.) Free Daily
- Laconia (N.H.) Daily Sun
- Marco (Fla.) Daily Eagle
- Montreal 24 heures
- Montreal Metro
- New York Metro
- Ottawa 24 heures
- Ottawa 24 hours
- Ottawa Metro
- Palo Alto (Calif.) Daily News
- Palo Alto (Calif.) Daily Post
- Philadelphia Metro
- Portland (Maine) Daily Sun
- RedEye (Chicago)
- San Francisco Examiner
- San Mateo (Calif.) Daily Journal
- Santa Barbara Daily Sound
- Santa Monica (Calif.) Daily Press
- Sky-Hi Daily News (Granby, Colo.)
- Starkville (Miss.) Dispatch
- Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Today
- Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Colo.)
- Tahoe Daily Tribune (S. Lake Tahoe, Calif.)
- tbt* (Tampa Bay, Fla.)
- Telluride (Colo.) Daily Planet
- Toronto 24 heures
- Toronto 24 hours
- Toronto Metro
- Toronto t.o.night
- Vail (Colo.) Daily
- Vail (Colo.) Mountaineer
- Vancouver 24 hours
- Vancouver Metro
- Washington Examiner
- Washington Express