Forks Forum

Last updated
Forks Forum
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Sound Publishing
PublisherEran Kennedy
EditorChristi Olson Baron
Founded1931
Circulation 995(as of 2023) [1]
Website forksforum.com

The Forks Forum is a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays serving the city of Forks in the U.S. state of Washington. [2] [3]

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History

This newspaper was established in 1931 to serve Forks and the surrounding rural communities of the western Olympic Peninsula. [4] Newspaper publishing on the coast side of the Olympic Peninsula had been underway since 1890. [3]

In 1990, the Forum-Peninsula Herald was sold by Lorraine Maris to Maloney Publishing Co. Maloney also owned the Jimmy Come Lately Gazette in Sequim and the monthly Peninsula Business Journal. [5]

Throughout its history the Forum has been notable as the "Farthest west newspaper in the contiguous United States."

Sound Publishing, a division of Canada-based Black Press Group, purchased The Forks Forum in October 2011 from previous owners Olympic View Publishing Company. [6]

In early 2020, The Forks Forum went entirely digital due to COVID-19 setbacks and returned in May 2020 with a broadsheet format rather than their former tabloid-sized format. [7]

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References

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  2. "Forks Forum newspaper in Forks Washington - MondoTimes.com". www.mondotimes.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  3. 1 2 Bagwell, Steve; Stapilus, Randy (2013). New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be. Carlton, Oregon: Ridenbaugh Press. p. 215. ISBN   978-0-945648-10-9. OCLC   861618089.
  4. "Forks Forum". Sound Publishing, Inc. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  5. "Ownership Changes". Editor & Publisher . Duncan McIntosh. February 20, 1990. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  6. "Sound Publishing purchases newspapers in Port Angeles, Sequim and Forks". Kent Reporter. 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  7. Leach, Leah (2020-05-07). "Forks Forum to return". Peninsula Daily News. Retrieved 2020-12-02.