Hooray For Us
(April 22, 2010) We’ll return to our regular programming next week, but right now there’s just so much good news emanating from the NCJ and its extended family that we’re going to go ahead and devote a whole goddamned column to it. If you have a problem with that, stop reading right here.
First things first. No one was more overjoyed than we when we heard that news that Jack Davis and Steve Jackson, ink-veined pressmen of many years’ standing, had completed their purchase of Western Web, the Fairhaven-based company that prints this and just about every other independent publication in the region. Davis and Jackson take over the company from Eureka kazillionaire Rob Arkley’s Security National family of companies, which lost its main motivation for owning a printing press when its upstart daily, the Eureka Reporter, went under a couple of years ago.
This is fantastic news, because it keeps the finest printing press between the Bay Area and Oregon running and in independent hands, and 20 super-professional employees on the job. For the Journal, the fear has long been that the media mogul Dean Singleton, owner of the Times-Standard and related publications, would seek to replace his creaky old equipment by buying out Western Web and its state-of-the-art Tensor press. This, thank the Heavens, did not come to pass.
Rather, Davis and Jackson and crew take over as an independent company with a surprisingly huge client list, given the general doom and gloom that infests all discussion of the printed words these days. Not many people know that Western Web doesn’t only work with local papers: It also regularly prints a multitude of Bay Area publications as well, including the venerable San Francisco Bay Guardian. The crew out there was just putting this week’s Bay Guardian run onto pallets for their journey south when we called to congratulate Davis Tuesday morning.
How did Western Web beat the tech-heavy Bay Area printers for the Bay Guardian contract?
“Being up here, we’re more competitive,” Davis said. “Our costs are less. Our lease — the cost for property is less.”
Is that all?
“And we can outprint ’em.”
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STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
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Comment / By emily / April 22, 1:15 p.m.
HERE HERE!! The North Coast Journal rules!