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The newspaper was established in February 1928 as the Hollywood Press by Abner M. Church as a community newspaper serving a portion of Oregon's capital city. The name of the newspaper was changed in December 1932 to Capital Press. [3] Church sold the paper to Dewey Rand Sr. and Henry M. Hanzen in 1946.
In 2014, the EO Media Group partnered with the Pamplin Media Group, which publishes the Portland Tribune and 24 other weekly and monthly publications in Oregon, to form the Oregon Capital Bureau and publish the Oregon Capital Insider newsletter. The partnership came as the number of reporters assigned to state capital bureaus nationwide was on ...
The organization was established as the Oregon Press Association in 1887. It was renamed the Oregon State Editorial Association in 1909, and adopted its current name in 1936. [ 3 ] It currently has about 80 member newspapers plus additional associate member and collegiate member newspapers.
The earliest newspaper in Oregon was the Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City from 1846, by a press association headed by George Abernethy. [2] 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, launched in Oregon City in March 1851. [2]
The Statesman Journal is the major daily newspaper published in Salem, Oregon, United States.Founded in 1851 as the Oregon Statesman, it later merged with the Capital Journal to form the current newspaper, the second-oldest in Oregon.
Press-Republican (April 12, 1811) [5] The Repository (March 30, 1815) (established as The Ohio Repository, it is the oldest in the state of Ohio) [6] The Fayetteville Observer (1816) Observer-Dispatch (1817) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1819) Woodville Republican (1824) Kennebec Journal (1825) Cherokee Phoenix (1828)
The Oregon Capital Bureau as of late winter 2020 includes just the EO Media Group and Pamplin. [24] Also in 2018, Pamplin completed a $1 million expansion on its Gresham press plant. [25] In August 2019, the Hillsboro Tribune was merged into the Forest Grove News-Times. [26]
Oregon's first newspaper, the Spectator, made use of the first newspaper printing press in the western United States. [2] George Stanley Turnbull, professor of journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, published his History of Oregon Newspapers in 1939. The book has been described as the most authoritative ...