Everything you need to know about BJ: Part One

Just uncovered in our pile of Beacon Journal memorabilia is this 7.25 X 8-inch booklet titled "Everything you ever wanted to know and more about...The Beacon Journal. The booklet naturally is undated. It cannot be too old because the phone listings carry the 996 exchange, the same as today. It also cannot be too recent if it is true as some say that young folks don't read newspapers today.

We are posting the first part of the information today

GENERAL INFORMATION
Our mission as a newspaper is to provide news, information and editorial opinion to our community of readers, and to offer advertising, printing and distribution services that benefit both the reader and advertiser.

The Beacon Journal serves an area located in the heart of Northeast Ohio. The primary service area includes Summit, Portage, Medina, Wayne and Stark Counties.

The Beacon Journal has almost 700 full-time and parttime employees.

There are 130 reporters, photographers, artists and editors staffing our newsroom.

We have approximately 1,350 carriers, supervised by 50 district managers.

Average Circulation:
*158,882 Daily
*227,512 Sunday

Average Paper Size: 50 Pages Daily 100 Pages Sunday

The main building has a total of 217,545 sq. ft. of space with another 55,000 sq. ft. in the Erie warehouse across Broadway.

The parking deck has five levels and covers 137,000 sq. ft. with spaces for 372 cars.

Including Erie we occupy approximately 6.5 acres.

Newsprint costs fluctuate between $300-$600 per ton and we use an average of one ton of newsprint per page. Thus, if the paper for a given day is 60 pages, it requires 60 tons of newsprint.

A roll of newsprint is approximately six miles long, or about the distance between downtown Akron and downtown Cuyahoga Falls.

* Source: ABC Publisher's Statement for six months ending March 31, 1992.

A roll of newsprint weighs approximately 1,500-2,000 pounds.

Our presses run approximately 22 miles per hour and we change the rolls of newsprint without stopping the press.

We have installed $6.2 million in new press and platemaking equipment. The new presses print with a water- based ink which has much less "rub off" than the old, oil -based presses.

Sixty-five trucks and 50 district manager automobiles are used for distribution of The Beacon Journal.

Our fleet of trucks combined put on an average 1 million miles each year.

On a typical day, we use 20-25 trucks and Sunday, we use 40-45 trucks, each making many runs.

We use 6,758,400 kwh. of electricity and 1,013,500 cu. ft. of water each year.