This also comes nearly two years after Gannett closed its printing facility in Portsmouth, NH, which served Gannett magazines such as the Portsmouth Herald, Foster’s Daily Democrat and Burlington Free Press, Portsmouth. reporter previously reported.

Job losses will affect full-time and part-time staff working on printing and packaging papers. Journal’s 75 Fountain St. The newsroom at will not be affected by the closure. Magazine reported At the upcoming closing on Tuesday.

“We deeply appreciate the many years of service our valued colleagues have dedicated to our Providence facility and the local community,” a Gannett spokesperson said.

Delivery timing is not expected to be significantly affected, the Journal reported.

Other newspapers printed at the Providence plant on Kinsley Boulevard, including other Gannett newspapers such as USA Today, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Brockton Enterprise and Cape Cod Times, will be printed at a facility in Auburn.

Gannett did not share plans for the facility, which opened in the late 1980s as a $60 million color paper printing facility. The Providence facility uses a unique printing technology and the supplier of printing plates stopped producing them, affecting the closure, the Journal reported. Gannett sought a buyer for the facility in 2021. He listed it at $8 million.

Gannett has slashed costs at newspapers across the country as it struggles to pay off nearly $1 billion in debt after merging in 2019 with GateHouse Media, which bought the Journal and its printing center for $46 million in 2014.

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