Peninsula Daily News

Peninsula Daily News (2015 circ, independently audited: 13,200 Sunday, 11,700 M-F) is the largest local newspaper -- print and online -- on the North Olympic Peninsula (Clallam and Jefferson counties) of Washington state. The PDN’s website is the dominant news and information website for the Peninsula, according to statistics from Omniture, Quantcast and Google Analytics. It averages 1.2 million page views monthly. It has three offices -- Port Angeles (headquarters), Sequim and Port Townsend -- and serves a largely rural, 156-mile circulation area across "the authentic Northwest" of the two-county Peninsula (about 2.5 hours by road and ferry northwest of Seattle). It is a local, local, local newspaper, rarely playing regional, national or international news on Page 1. It actually publishes two zoned newspapers Sunday through Friday — one tailored to readers in Clallam County, the other with specific news/photos for readers in Jefferson County. PDN donates to more than 25 community organization. Its staff is particularly proud of the newspaper's own "hand up, not a handout" Peninsula Home Fund which raises tens of thousands of dollars annually to aid those in need across the Peninsula (read stories about it at www.peninsuladailynews.com). PDN has been owned since November 2011 by Sound Publishing Inc., the largest publisher of community newspapers in Washington state. Sister publications on the Peninsula also owned by Sound are two weekly newspapers, Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum, and Olympic Peninsula Homes-Land, a monthly real estate magazine. The PDN publisher is also publisher of those publications. For more information, go to www.peninsuladailynews.com or phone the newspaper at 360-452-2345.