The Journal also reduced its size from a 50 to a 44-inch web and reduced the cutoff by approximately three-quarters of an inch. The mammoth press constructed of seven print towers, totaled 28 units and increased page capacity from 40 to 112 pages of color in a single run, while improving registration. The company purchased a used Goss Metro Color press from the Fort Worth Star Telegram after Fort Worth moved its printing to the Dallas Morning News. Recognizing the need for additional color capacity for graphics and general presentation in 2015, the Albuquerque Publishing Co. Their previous press printed on a 50-inch web and incorporated unit to unit printing to achieve process color. The New Mexican, dubbed “the West’s oldest newspaper,” printed its first issue in November 1849.īack in 1982, the Journal installed a press and quickly outgrew its page capacity over the years. was created in 1880 from the Golden Gate and quickly changed the name to the Albuquerque Daily Journal, printing its first edition in October 1880. I am sure our two fathers would be happy that their children are working together to keep their publications family owned and dedicated to their communities.”īoth publications boast a solid foothold in New Mexico’s history.
Referencing the relationship between the two publications, New Mexican president Robin Martin recently was quoted by the AP to say, “That was rare in the days when most newspapers were family-owned and neighboring publications were often fierce rivals.
Lang, president of the Journal, told the Associated Press in a recent statement that “the financial savings from the arrangement will strengthen the newspapers’ ability to continue to report and print news important to New Mexico.” The AP further quoted him as saying, “We have been in this plant for 38 years and it has served us well, but as an aging plant, it has become more and more expensive to operate”. The newsrooms and other business operations will remain independent and the production move will not affect size or content in either publication. Sister publications of the Journal will also move production to the New Mexican’s facility: the Rio Rancho Observer, Valencia County News-Bulletin and El Defensor Chieftain of Socorro. The transfer of printing and mailroom operations is scheduled to take place Oct. These family-owned newspapers have announced that they will soon partner production operations, and the Journal will be moving all its printing to the New Mexican production facility.
As many newspapers seek cost savings and increased efficiencies through consolidation, this popular trend has found its way to the two largest papers in New Mexico: the Santa Fe New Mexican and Albuquerque Journal.
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