The Daily World Aberdeen WA

Serving Grays Harbor and northern Pacific counties since 1889, The Daily World is the only daily newspaper (circulation 14,100) on the coast of Washington state. The Daily World, which also publishes the East County News, a total-market-coverage weekly serving eastern Grays Harbor County, is owned by Sound Publishing, Inc. of Everett, Washington. With state-of-the-art printing, The Daily World also does full-color commercial printing for advertisers and several other weekly and monthly publications. Our goal is to better serve our customers and we will continue to invest and improve our newspaper and production facility to achieve that purpose.The newspaper made its debut as the Aberdeen Weekly Bulletin on Wednesday, July 31, 1889, three months ahead of statehood. It evolved into The Daily Bulletin in 1900 with an Associated Press franchise. But it was still filled with patent medicine ads and serialized potboilers. The Bulletin, frankly, was a pretty thin sheet. Its front page featured shipping reports, real estate ads and horrifically matter-of-fact notices of logging and sawmill casualties. In May of 1908, everything changed. The paper was sold to two bright young newsmen from Tacoma, Werner Andrew Rupp, a political reporter and editorial writer, and John F. Gilbert, a gifted cartoonist. They renamed it The Aberdeen World – the name symbolic of their ambitions. The first edition appeared on Monday, June 1, 1908. (“Daily” was not part of the original “flag.”) Gilbert grew restless under the 90-hour-a-week pace set by Rupp, who had his sights set on publishing one of the best small dailies in America – and making money, too.