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The EO Media Group, formerly known as the East Oregonian Publishing Company, is a newspaper publishing company based in the U.S. state of Oregon. It publishes 17 newspapers in the state and in southwestern Washington .
The East Oregonian Publishing Company became the newspaper's owner in 1973, when that company merged with the Astorian-Budget Publishing Company. [6] The purchase continued a connection between the East Oregonian, based some 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the east in Pendleton, Oregon , that had been established in 1909, when a group of East ...
The East Oregonian is a weekly newspaper published in Pendleton, Oregon, United States and covering Umatilla and Morrow counties. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] EO is owned by EO Media Group [ 4 ] and is the newspaper of record for Umatilla County.
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 ...
In 1990, Dewey Rand Jr. sold the newspaper to the East Oregonian Publishing Company. [ 4 ] Bill Duncan published a column from 1981 until his death in 2011; the News Review of Roseburg, Oregon deems it "still pertinent" and is republishing it as of 2018.
The Weekly Oregonian was the fifth paper in Oregon, and the oldest one still extant. It launched in Portland on December 4, 1850. Its press was purchased in 1852 and used to found the Columbian, the first paper north of the Columbia River. [6] The Statesman was founded in Salem in 1851, in response to the Whig-oriented Oregonian. [11]
[26] [3] Reed was posthumously inducted into the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association's hall of fame in 2017. [31] [32] In 2008, the newspaper was purchased by EO Media Group (formerly known as the East Oregonian Publishing Company). [33] In June 2024, EO Media Group announced The Hermiston Herald will cease print publication and go online-only.
Although Oregon as a whole is generally considered a blue state, Eastern Oregon is far more conservative than the west. [7] Morrow County is the only Eastern Oregon county to have supported Democratic presidential nominees after Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 landslide, having voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 and for Bill Clinton in 1996.