The Bee will print 3 days a week: California newspapers keep shrinking.
The Fresno Bee will be transitioning to a 24/7 digital product with three days of print (Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday) beginning July 8.
McClatchy-owned Bee joins the same company owned San Luis Obispo Tribune that announced in April it would cut back to two days a week in April for its print edition.
Earlier this year the Los Angeles Times reported that their last printing press facility in Downtown Los Angeles closed down after printing its final paper. At one time LA Times four facilities printed 1.5 million Sunday papers. The one remaining Olympic plant printed about 100,000 papers at shutdown. They used to print for other papers but that business is gone too. The newspaper and its small circulation will go to a contract plant in Riverside.
Wildfire watch
Wet start to summer for the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest has seen good rainfall earlier this year and now forecasts suggest the next month will be relatively wet as well. That could mean fewer wildfires this summer at least until late.In California, similar to last year, a slow beginning to the peak fire season is forecast for California, with below normal potential forecast for much of California in June and for the Sierra and coast in July.
However, significant fire potential is forecast to rise to above normal across the central and southern California coast and southern Sierra Foothills in September due to heavy fine fuel loading. Although it’s been a fiery start to the California fire season in Southern California this month experts still predict below average acreage