The Chronicle’s average daily circulation has dropped from 251,000 to 156,000 since 2009 and to further cut costs it has renegotiated its contract with Transcontinental Inc., the Canadian-based firm that prints the newspaper in Fremont. The Chronicle will go from using three presses to two in a deal that could save it tens of millions of dollars over the life of its 15-year agreement.
The news is buried in a recently-released Transcontinental financial disclosure. San Francisco Peninsula Press Club’s blog reported it Saturday.
