The Edmonds Beacon is a weekly newspaper serving the city of Edmonds in Snohomish County, Washington . It is owned by Beacon Publishing, Inc.
46-792: The Edmonds Beacon began publication in 1986, as part of the Beacon Publishing, Inc. family of newspapers. Beacon Publishing was founded in 1992, in Mukilteo. Beacon Publishing, Inc. is owned by Paul Archipley, and also publishes the Mukilteo Beacon and the Mill Creek Beacon . Sara Bruestle was editor of the Edmonds and Mukilteo editions of the Beacon prior to becoming features editor of The Everett Herald in 2016. The current editor for Edmonds Beacon
92-476: A Brooklyn -based tutoring company which in subsequent decades would grow its footprint and expand its offerings beyond test prep to become Kaplan, Inc. On August 5, 2013, it was announced that the Washington Post Company would sell the flagship newspaper for $ 250 million to Jeff Bezos , founder and chief executive of Amazon.com . The Washington Post Company agreed to adopt a new corporate name once
138-406: A Garrett, Indiana -based electrical manufacturer. In 2017, Graham acquired Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc, a supplier of lumber and plywood products for fire retardant and preservative applications. In May 2020, Graham Holdings announced that it had acquired Framebridge . In July 2019, Graham Holdings acquired Clyde's Restaurant Group , the owner and operator of several restaurants in
184-410: A "quota system" based on story count and page views to determine who was going to be laid off and demands all jobs to be reinstated. On June 25, the union extended the strike for a second day until Carpenter Media agreed to set a date to bargain over the job cuts. An agreement was eventually reached and in the end 12 union employees were laid off on Aug. 5 with some taking buyouts. The paper's publisher
230-468: A circulation of 16,000. The Herald laid off 10 employees on August 19, 2008, due to the 2008 recession . About 15 empty positions company-wide would also not be filled anytime soon. No newsroom employees were laid off. In January 2013, The Herald announced six employees would be laid off, including four from the newsroom, due to ad revenue loses. Two vacancies would also not be filled, and one news reporter's hours were reduced. On February 6, 2013,
276-594: A daily newspaper based in Everett, Washington , United States. It is owned by Sound Publishing, Inc. The paper serves residents of Snohomish County in the Seattle metropolitan area . The first newspaper to be called The Everett Herald was established in 1891 and ceased publication during the Panic of 1893 . The second incarnation came years later when Sydney "Sam" Albert Perkins, a proprietor of two Tacoma newspapers, purchased
322-707: A decline in ad revenue resulting from the COVID-19 recession in the United States . Seventy workers across all departments lost their jobs, including more than a dozen employees who worked on The Herald. No news reporters were laid off, but newsroom employees had their hours reduced 20% to 40%. In March 2020, The Herald launched the Investigative Journalism Fund in cooperation with the Community Foundation of Snohomish County. As of September that year,
368-435: A group of seven television stations ; education company Kaplan ; manufacturing operations including Hoover Treated Wood Products, Dekko, Joyce/Dayton Corp, Forney Corporation; Graham Healthcare Group, which provides home health, hospice and palliative care services through joint ventures with health systems and physicians groups as well as other services; Graham Automotive, which includes eight automotive dealerships around
414-600: A group of seven television stations. Led by chief executive officer Catherine Badalamente, the company is based in Detroit , co-located with its local NBC affiliate WDIV-TV . Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license . Graham Holdings Company also owns several companies active in various capacities on the World Wide Web . These include The Slate Group , which publishes Slate , Slate V , ForeignPolicy.com and World of Good Brands (formerly
460-826: A majority stake in Troy, Michigan -based Residential Healthcare Group, the parent company of Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice, which provides at-home and on-site health care and hospice services in Michigan and Illinois. Graham Healthcare Group provides home health, hospice and palliative care services through joint ventures with health systems and physicians groups. The subsidiary designs business and technology solutions aimed at streamlining hospice and home health operations and improving quality of care. Graham Healthcare Group includes Residential Healthcare Group, Allegheny Health Network-Healthcare @ Home, Mary Free Bed at Home, Clarus and InTeliCare. Graham Healthcare Group also operates
506-556: A nationwide specialty pharmacy licensed in 38 states that serves patients suffering from chronic illness through its Clinical Specialty Infusions, LLC (CSI Pharmacy) business located in Texarkana, Texas . Through its Clarus Care, LLC (Clarus) business in Nashville, Tennessee , GHG provides call management solutions to physician groups and hospitals. In July 2013, Graham Holdings purchased Forney Corp. for an undisclosed sum. The company, which
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#1733084713958552-568: A social media management platform for newsrooms, through its subsidiary, Graham Media Group. In June 2021, Graham Holdings acquired Leaf Group , a consumer internet company that runs both online consumer-orientated brands and marketplace brands. In 2023, the Leaf Group was restructured to become World of Good Brands, separating Leaf’s lifestyle publishing websites – Well+Good , Livestrong , Hunker and OnlyInYourState — from its marketplace businesses, Saatchi Art and Society6 . In October 2012,
598-509: A son-in-law of CEO Don Graham, joined GHC as president. O'Shaughnessy became CEO in November 2015. In November 2014, Graham Holdings said it would spin off Cable ONE as a separate, publicly traded company in 2015. The spin-off was completed on July 1, 2015. In March 2018, Graham sold Kaplan University , Kaplan’s online higher education operation, to the Purdue University system , and it
644-518: A stroke in 1976. He was succeeded by his son, Robert D. Best Jr. The newspaper established a satellite news bureau for southern Snohomish County in May 1954, which later became the Western Sun edition in 1970. A three-alarm fire occurred February 13, 1956, at the paper's building on Colby and Wall Streets. The explosive blaze began in the basement when a backfiring furnace ignited a pan of oil underneath
690-457: A three-story brick building, which would make it the only paper on the Puget Sound to own the building it occupies. Once complete, the site would house The Herald ' s newspaper plant equipped with new machinery including a linotype machine from a New York factory, a double-feed Dispatch press and a Whitlock cylinder press. The Herald was to be enlarged to an eight-page seven-column paper,
736-404: Is Brian Soergel and the sports editor is David Pan. As of 2017, the newspaper's archives were only available to subscribers. Edmonds mayor Dave Earling praised the Beacon , along with My Edmonds News , in 2016 and 2018, describing the two as sources he consults "to find what's going on in town well beyond what I see and hear about." In 2018, Paul Archipley, owner of Beacon Publishing, Inc., won
782-474: Is based in Addison, Texas , manufactures equipment that monitors and controls the combustion of coal, natural gas, and other materials. This equipment is sold to electric utilities for use in power generation plants. In June 2014, Graham Holdings acquired Joyce/Dayton Corp., a Dayton, Ohio -based manufacturer of screw jacks and other linear-motion systems. In November 2015, Graham Holdings acquired Group Dekko,
828-516: The Everett Independent circa January 1901 and renamed to The Everett Herald. The first issue of the newly christened paper published on February 11, 1901 with Samuel E. Wharton serving as its editor. A 1908 book covering the history of Snohomish County lists both Perkins and Wharton as the newspaper's founders. On March 14, 1903, The Everett Herald Company purchased a double corner lot on Colby Avenue and Wall Street for construction of
874-582: The Washington metropolitan area , including Old Ebbitt Grill . In January 2019, Graham Holdings acquired 90% of two automobile dealerships from Sonic Automotive. The company's latest acquisition — its fourth auto dealership to date — is located at 8820 Centreville Road in Manassas. Christopher J. Ourisman of Ourisman Automotive will operate and manage the dealership, which the Arlington holding company purchased from
920-419: The $ 150,000 rotary press. Extensive damage occurred throughout the building. Only the business offices escaped the flames, but were damaged by water and smoke. It took two-hours to extinguish the fire. Three firefighters were injured, but none of the 140 newspaper employees were hurt. An editor said six employees were working in the building when the fire started at 8:53 p.m., but all escaped unharmed. As
966-511: The Battlefield Automotive Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In 1984, Graham Holdings (then The Washington Post Company), acquired Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers. In the 1990s, the company expanded abroad and grew beyond test preparation, expanding its training and publishing businesses, diversifying into English language training, higher education, pathways programs, online learning and other services. It launched
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#17330847139581012-539: The Leaf Group). The Root , an online magazine focusing on African American culture, was owned by The Slate Group until Graham Holdings sold it to Univision Communications in 2015. Graham Holdings Company also owns SocialCode, an advertising agency specializing in social media/ID-based marketing, and is an investor in Pinna, a children's podcast company. In November 2014, Graham Holdings Company acquired Social News Desk,
1058-548: The U.S. Postal Service for same-day delivery. The paper also announced it would cease publishing a Sunday edition and that the Monday edition would be online only. On June 19, 2024, the newspaper laid off 12 journalists—half of its editorial staff. An article on the layoffs posted to The Herald ' s website was taken down and replaced with version that appeared friendlier to owner Carpenter Media Group, which had acquired Sound Publishing earlier that year. A company executive called
1104-473: The Washington Newspaper Publisher's Association's Miles Turnbull Editor/Publisher Award. In 2020, editor Brian Soergel won Washington Newspaper Publisher's Association's Better Newspaper Contest awards in several categories. This article about a Washington (state) newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Everett Herald The Everett Herald is
1150-574: The Washington Post Company announced it was selling the paper to the Sound Publishing division of Black Press , based in Victoria, British Columbia . At the time of purchase, The Herald had a 46,000 daily circulation and a 50,795 Sunday circulation while losing modest amounts of money in recent years. The newspaper then moved to Sound Publishing's offices on Colby Avenue in Everett. On November 6, 2013,
1196-473: The Washington, D.C. region; and content and marketplace company World of Good Brands (formerly Leaf Group ). Graham Holdings Company also owned cable television and internet service provider Cable One until it was spun off in 2015 and the now-defunct Trove (formerly WaPo Labs)—the developers of a news reader app . The history of Graham Holdings Company dates back to 1877, when The Washington Post
1242-534: The awkward survivor of a discarded business strategy," Crosscut.com reporter David Brewster wrote in 2013. On April 5, 1981, The Herald relaunched its Sunday edition and folded the Western Sun edition into the countywide newspaper. The Herald was an afternoon paper until switching to a morning paper in 1991. The newspaper also acquired a chain of weekly newspapers under The Enterprise in southern Snohomish County, which it operated from 1996 to 2012. The Daily Herald 's website, HeraldNet.com,
1288-539: The beneficiaries of various family trusts) collectively control the company through their ownership of the unlisted Class A common stock that selects 70% of the company's board of directors . As of 2014, it forms more than 90% of the family's assets. Prior to 2014, Berkshire Hathaway was a substantial holder of the public Class B common stock that selects 30% of the company's board of directors, but exchanged most of that stock for WPLG-TV , one of Graham Holdings' television stations, and other assets, in 2014. Since 1950,
1334-421: The building burned, a veteran reporter gathered staff members to remove what office equipment they could from the building before the flames drove them back. Despite the blaze, the paper published the next day by using the facilities of The Seattle Times and Local 23 Photo Engravers Union. In 1959, The Herald moved its offices and printing presses to a building on California Street. The Best family owned
1380-555: The company had been based in the Washington Post building in Washington, D.C. , which was sold off separately in 2014. Its new headquarters are at 1300 North 17th Street in Arlington, Virginia, with the choice of state motivated (according to Don Graham) by the proximity to Congress and the fact that two of the holding's activity areas, education and health care, are subject to federal regulation. In 1984, The Washington Post Company purchased Stanley H. Kaplan Education Centers, Ltd.,
1426-577: The court had ruled that "criminal defendants could force reporters to reveal confidential sources if the information was crucial to the case" and characterized the loss as "a major defeat for the news media". The Daily Herald took the Appeals Court decision to the Washington Supreme Court in State v. Rinaldo 102 Wn.2d 749 (1984) , which was heard en banc with the result that the subpoena itself
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1472-581: The firm purchased Celtic Healthcare Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Celtic Healthcare, based in Pennsylvania , provides home health care in western, central, and northeastern Pennsylvania as well as Montgomery and Baltimore County, Maryland . It also provides home hospice services in the same areas, as well as owns a 10-bed inpatient hospice in Dunmore, Pennsylvania . In 2014, it had around 558 full-time and 45 part-time employees. In 2014, Graham Holdings bought
1518-523: The newspaper until selling it in 1978 to the Washington Post Company . Robert D. Best Jr. remained on as the newspaper's publisher and president. At the time, circulation was 56,200. The purchase was part of the Post's strategy of acquiring smaller dailies near large cities, and then expanding into some of the big-city territory. The strategy largely failed, and decades later The Herald "remained
1564-458: The original article a "hit-piece" while The Herald ' s editors threatened to quit if the story was not republished. On June 24, the paper's newsroom union went on strike for the day to protest layoffs. The union raised $ 13,353 on GoFundMe for its strike fund and Rick Larsen , who represents the Everett area in Congress, joined the striking workers Monday. The union alleged the company used
1610-531: The paper announced it would launch a paywall on its website with a limit of 15 free articles. Afterwards, readers would be prompted to subscribe for $ 8.95 per month. Ten employees were laid off in February 2017, including four from the newsroom. In February 2019, it was reported The Herald had 200 or so coin-operated newspaper vending machines in operation and was planning to install newspaper racks topped with flat screen monitors at stores. An optical lens on top of
1656-770: The paper had received donations amounting $ 125,000 to help support investigative journalism. In September 2020, The Herald launched the Environmental and Climate Change Reporting Fund in the same vain. The Health Reporting Initiative launched in October 2022 is funded in part for three years by Premera Blue Cross . On July 19, 2022, editorial staff members at The Herald announced their intention to unionize, citing poor wages and an inability to retain staff as key concerns they wished to address. The Herald ' s newsroom employees voted unanimously on September 8 to unionize. On December 25, 2022, The Herald announced it would start using
1702-450: The paper's circulation was 15,000. Gertrude oversaw The Herald for the next 17 years. She established the paper's photo department and published its first Sunday edition, which was scrapped in 1932 as a result of The Great Depression . The Bests' son assumed the role of publisher when his mother suffered a stroke in 1939. She later died in 1947. Robert D. Best Sr. became publisher at 29 and served in that role for 37 years until dying from
1748-457: The sale was finalized. It adopted Graham Holdings Company as the new name effective November 29, 2013. Amazon.com was not involved in the sale. Nash Holdings LLC, a company owned by Bezos, closed the purchase of the newspaper and affiliated publications on October 1, 2013. Graham Holdings Company retained ownership of WaPo Labs, its technology innovation group, since rebranded as Trove . In 2014, Tim O'Shaughnessy, founder of LivingSocial and
1794-458: The same size as newspapers in Seattle and Tacoma. Perkins sold the paper to James B. Best, of Everett, and his newly established enterprise, The Daily Herald Company, on September 6, 1905. The price paid for both the building and business was $ 100,000. At the time the paper's circulation was 4,250. James B. Best's wife Gertrude Best took over for him when he died in 1922 at the age of 56. By 1926,
1840-546: The unit would be able to determine a person's age and gender within 15 feet and then play target ads along with sports scores, weather, news and a broadcast anchor. As of 2023, these racks have not been installed in stores. The newspaper's printing plant near Paine Field was replaced in 2022 by a new Sound Publishing plant in Lakewood . The plant includes a press acquired from The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa . In April 2020, Sound Publishing laid off 20% of its workforce amid
1886-424: Was also replaced July. In March 1983, The Daily Herald lost an appellate court case in the State of Washington in which it sought to quash a subpoena allowing a judicial review of confidential material gathered for articles it had published in 1979 on the cult activities of Theodore Rinaldo , who had since been convicted on charges of rape, indecent liberties and assault. The New York Times reported that
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1932-596: Was first published. The Washington Post Company was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1889, and remained a District of Columbia corporation until it changed its place of incorporation to Delaware in 2003. It is a public company and its Class B common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GHC; it went public in 1971. Descendants of the late Eugene Meyer (including Chairman Donald E. Graham , his sister Lally Weymouth , and
1978-455: Was formerly the owner of The Washington Post newspaper and Newsweek magazine. Its current holdings include the digital marketing company Code3 (formerly SocialCode); online and print media entities including Slate Magazine , Foreign Policy through the FP Group, which includes Foreign Policy magazine and ForeignPolicy.com), Graham Media Group (formerly Post-Newsweek Stations),
2024-804: Was launched on January 5, 1997. The Herald Business Journal launched in April 1998 as monthly magazine covering business and technology. A website for that publication launched in April 2001. The magazine's name was changed to Snohomish County Business Journal in August 2002. The name changed back in 2012. The Journal launched the same month as a competitor, Everett Business Journal , owned by Sun News Inc., which also published The Bellingham Business Journal and The Wenatchee Business Journal . In April 2004, Everett Business Journal ceased publication and its assets were acquired The Herald 's publisher. At that time The Herald 's business publication had
2070-568: Was quashed on the basis that Rinaldo had not met the threshold requirements to compel such an inspection, while upholding the Court of Appeals ruling in general. Washington Post Company Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company ) is a diversified American conglomerate holding company. Headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia , and incorporated in Delaware , it
2116-521: Was rebranded Purdue University Global , a new public university to serve adult learners. In 2019, children's podcasting company Pinna spun out of the Slate Group as a separate Graham Holdings subsidiary. In June 2021, Graham Holdings completed their acquisition of Leaf Group , a consumer internet company, at a valuation of approximately $ 323 million. Through its Graham Media Group subsidiary (formerly Post-Newsweek Stations), Graham Holdings owns
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