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The Bellingham Herald will reduce its print editions to two days weekly, Wednesdays and Sundays, starting Jan. 29. This is “the latest cutback stretching the definition of ‘daily newspaper,’ Brier Dudley wrote in his Seattle Times column “Save the Free Press” Dec. 7. He “put ‘Sunday’ in quotation marks because that edition won’t arrive on Sunday” because it will be mailed Saturday and “could be a Monday edition, if the mail is slow.”

New Herald Senior Editor Scot Heisel called it a key move “within the digital transition of the news industry – and a vital step toward the sustainability of The Bellingham Herald.” His Nov. 30 article ends with a thank you to subscribers.

The Cascadia Daily started in Bellingham in early 2022 to compete with the Herald. It has daily digital editions and a Friday printed paper.

Read Heisel’s article at: bellinghamherald.com/activate.