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The earliest newspaper in Oregon was the Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City from 1846, by a press association headed by George Abernethy. [4] This was joined in November 1850 by the Milwaukie Western Star and two partisan papers – the Whig Oregonian, published in Portland beginning on December 4, 1850, and the Democratic Statesman ...
The Portland Observer is one of the oldest African-American newspapers in Oregon. [2] [3] [4] Established in 1970, it is published weekly [5] (on Wednesdays), in Portland, Oregon. Rev. Alfred L. Henderson founded the paper in the 1970s, in the tradition of the People's Observer, a 1940s publication that had ceased publication in 1950. [6]
The People's Observer: LCCN sn00062131, 2009257307; OCLC 43533948, 466893829; Issues from 1938–1939, 1944, and 1945 available online. Published by William H. McClendon from 1938 to 1939, and revived by him as The People's Observer in 1943. [36] Portland: The Portland Observer / New Portland Observer [37] 1970 [37] current: Weekly [37] LCCN ...
The Observer, established in 1896, [2] is a newspaper that serves Union and Wallowa counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. Its headquarters are in La Grande, the seat of Union County. The Observer circulates Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. [2] EO Media Group based in Salem, Oregon, publishes the newspaper. [2]
The newspaper and went through several names and owners before becoming the Argus Observer, which is a reference to Argus Panoptes, a creature from Greek mythology that had 100 eyes. [3] The paper was established January 6, 1897 as a weekly publication in Vale, Oregon called the District Silver Advocate.
The origins of the company date back to 1933 when Elmo Smith and his wife, Dorothy, borrowed $25 to establish a mimeographed pennysaver in Ontario, Oregon. [2] In 1936, the couple bought a press and founded the Eastern Oregon Observer. [3] Smith sold the newspaper in December 1946 to Jessica Longston and Robert Pollock. [4]
The company acquired the Blue Mountain Eagle in 1979, the Chinook Observer in 1988, the Capital Press in 1990, [8] Wallowa County Chieftain in 2000, [9] the North Coast Citizen in 2007 [10] and The Hermiston Herald in 2008. [11]
The Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association is a trade association for all paid-circulation daily, weekly, and multi-weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Oregon. It represents and promotes newspapers, [ 1 ] and encourages excellence in reporting and coverage with an annual series of awards.