The Daily World

What The Daily World does

The Daily World is a privately held local newspaper serving Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties on Washington's Pacific coast, headquartered in Aberdeen. The publication was founded in 1889 and has operated continuously for over 135 years as the dominant daily news source in its two-county service area, covering local news, sports, business, life/arts, opinion, obituaries, and local/national headlines. The company is owned and operated as a property within Carpenter Media Group, a diversified media conglomerate that provides shared corporate infrastructure including privacy, terms of service, and locations listings.

The Daily World's product portfolio spans a print daily newspaper, an eEdition digital replica accessible via the Newsmemory platform, email newsletters, an online classifieds marketplace integrated with iPublishMarketplace (covering jobs, autos, real estate, and legal notices), a sponsored-content surface on its website carrying partners such as Comcast and The UPS Store, and a "Best Of Twin Harbor" community contest. Reader and community-submission services include story ideas, press releases, photos, engagement and wedding announcements, birth announcements, letters to the editor, obituaries, legal notices, and classified listings. The technology stack is a standard CMS (WordPress-hosted) plus third-party eEdition (Newsmemory) and classifieds (iPublishMarketplace) platforms — no proprietary model or platform is in evidence.

The business model is multi-stream: print and digital subscription revenue, display and sponsored-content advertising, classified ad placement fees, legal-notice publication fees (a regulated revenue stream tied to Washington's public-notice requirements), and limited event-related commerce (e.g., concert ticket pricing for Grays Harbor County Fair events). Pricing is not publicly disclosed; subscription rate cards are gated behind the Subscriber Center. The customer base is geographically concentrated — local residents and community members as readers, plus local and regional small/medium businesses and national brand advertisers as the sponsor/classified base — making customer concentration diffuse at the reader level but moderately tied to local SMB advertisers and state-mandated legal-notice revenue on the monetization side.

Name

The Daily World

Legal name

The Daily World

Website

https://thedailyworld.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1890

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Daily World is a privately owned local newspaper serving Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties on Washington's coast, operating under Carpenter Media Group and offering print editions, an eEdition replica, newsletters, classifieds, and sponsored content.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Newspaper Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAB)

Keywords

• Local newspaper publishing
• Community news coverage
• Classified advertising
• Print media subscriptions
• Newsletter publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Aberdeen

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Daily World publishes a local newspaper serving Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties on Washington's Coast, covering local and national news, sports, business, life/arts, opinion, and obituaries. The company distributes content through daily/periodic print editions, a digital e-Edition replica, email newsletters, and an online classifieds marketplace. Subscription access is offered to both print and digital formats for community readers.

Product overview

The Daily World is a traditional local newspaper offering a single unified product focused on regional news coverage. The core offering includes daily/periodic print editions distributed to subscribers, supplemented by digital access through eEdition, email newsletters, and an online classifieds platform. The newspaper covers local news, sports, business, life/arts/entertainment, opinion, and obituaries for Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Daily World newspaper (print) Local newspaper serving Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties on Washington's Coast, with print editions featuring local and national news, sports, classifieds, business, and services coverage. Physical delivery available to print subscribers.
• eEdition Digital replica of the print newspaper accessible online, allowing subscribers to read print editions electronically and access archives.
• Newsletters Email newsletters delivering curated news updates and announcements to subscribers via the Subscriber Center.
• Classifieds Online classified advertising platform for jobs, autos, real estate, and legal notices serving the Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties area.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Carpenter Media GroupcoreOthersThe Daily World is operated under Carpenter Media Group, a media company with multiple newspaper properties. The parent company provides corporate infrastructure including privacy policy, terms of service, and locations network.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• The News Tribune: A daily newspaper serving Tacoma and Pierce County, Washington. Comparable regional Washington newspaper with multi-channel distribution, e-Editions, classifieds, and similar content categories.
• The Daily Astorian: A daily newspaper serving Astoria and Clatsop County on the Oregon/Washington coast. Highly comparable as a small-market coastal newspaper serving a similar geographic and demographic profile to Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.
• Peninsula Daily News: A daily newspaper serving the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Comparable as a regional Washington newspaper with similar print + digital hybrid model covering a rural coastal community.
• The Olympian: A daily newspaper serving Olympia, Washington and the surrounding Thurston County area. Directly comparable as a regional/local Washington State newspaper with similar print + digital + classifieds business model serving a comparable geographic scope.
• The Bellingham Herald: A daily newspaper serving Bellingham and Whatcom County in northwest Washington. Comparable as a regional Washington State newspaper with print and digital editions, local news coverage, classifieds, and similar subscription-based revenue model.
• The Columbian: A daily newspaper serving Vancouver, Washington and Clark County. Comparable regional Washington newspaper with print and digital editions, classifieds marketplace, and local news focus.
• Walla Walla Union-Bulletin: A daily newspaper serving Walla Walla in southeastern Washington. Comparable as a small-market regional Washington newspaper with similar print + digital + classifieds business model.

Broad incumbents

• The Seattle Times: The largest newspaper in Washington State, serving the Seattle metropolitan area. Comparable as a Washington newspaper with overlapping coverage of state and regional news, though significantly larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Gannett LocaliQ: The local media division of Gannett, operating USA TODAY Network's hundreds of local newspapers including many in the Pacific Northwest. Comparable as a large-scale operator of community newspapers with similar multi-channel monetization including print, digital, and classifieds.
• Lee Enterprises: A major newspaper company operating numerous daily and weekly local newspapers across the United States, including several in the Pacific Northwest. Comparable as a multi-property local newspaper operator with similar print + digital business model and classifieds revenue streams.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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