“For El Paso to be printing in Juárez, now you’ve got to take into account the line - crossing can take a long time, especially right now during pandemic times,” she said.
Digital subscribers end up getting up-to-the-minute information, while print subscribers may not. “Because of time (constraints) you end up having to go with earlier deadlines, which means there’s things you can’t get into the paper,” Fuentes said. Some of the challenges that come with outsourcing printing are earlier deadlines and the possibility of delays, she said. Outsourcing printing also can cut down on utility, maintenance and materials costs that come with operating a printing press.įuentes oversaw the Laredo Morning Times in 2009 when Hearst, its parent company, moved printing operations to its San Antonio facility, a 2.5 hour drive away. workers, which is one major reason why it would be less expensive to print in Juárez than El Paso.” “Wages for Mexican workers are certainly a lot lower than U.S. “It’s blue collar work, even though I consider it specialized work,” said Fuentes, who is now executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a nonprofit that works to improve the quality of investigative reporting. Printing press jobs tend to be minimum wage jobs on the border, said Diana Fuentes, a former editor at the Del Rio News Herald and the Laredo Morning Times. The company also declined to say why it is closing the El Paso press.Įl Paso Times Executive Editor Tim Archuleta declined to be interviewed for this article. Gannett did not respond to a question about whether employees at the Juárez facility will be paid less than what the company paid workers in El Paso. The Texas minimum wage is more than six times higher than it is in Northern Mexico, where minimum wage workers earn 213.39 pesos a day, or about $10.36. Transnational arrangements allow companies to “take advantage” of lower wage requirements in Mexico, Ebner said. The El Paso Times will be printed on this press starting Oct. The El Diario de Juárez building on Paseo Triunfo de la República, where Paso del Norte Publications prints El Diario de Juárez, El Diario de El Paso and El PM. Like El Paso Times, they will now be printed at Paso del Norte Publishing in Juárez, which prints El Diario de Juárez, the city’s main newspaper. They include newspapers in Las Cruces, Deming, Silver City, Alamogordo and Ruidoso, New Mexico, which were printed in El Paso. Gannett owns more than 100 newspapers in addition to its flagship publication, USA Today. There’s no official tracker on how many American papers print in Mexico, but “it’s certainly very rare,” said Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit research organization and journalism school.
This is Gannett’s first cross-border move, according to a spokesperson. Regionally outsourcing newspaper printing is not uncommon among media outlets, but the decision by Gannett, the company that owns the El Paso Times, is notable in that printing will be moved to Mexico.
Beginning Tuesday, the newspaper will be printed just a few miles away - and across the international boundary in neighboring Ciudad Juárez. The printing press behind El Paso City Hall that produces the El Paso Times ceases production Monday.
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