The Juneau Empire is a newspaper in Juneau, Alaska, United States. It was founded on November 2, 1912, as the Alaska Daily Empire. In 1969 Morris Communications bought the newspaper. Mark Bryan was appointed publisher in 2009, but left the paper in 2013. In June of that year, Rustan Burton was named the new publisher and continues to run the paper today. In 2017, Morris Communications sold its newspapers to GateHouse Media. In 2018, GateHouse sold its Alaska papers to Sound Publications. The Juneau Empire publishes daily except Monday and Saturday.