Ashland Daily Tidings

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Ashland Daily Tidings
Ashland Daily Tidings front page.jpg
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s)Rosebud Media
Founded1876
Ceased publicationAug. 1, 2021
Circulation < 2,000 (Monday through Saturday)
Website dailytidings.com

The Ashland Daily Tidings was a afternoon newspaper serving the city of Ashland, Oregon, United States. It was owned and published by Edd Rountree from 1960-1985 when he retired and subsequently purchased by Medford-based Mail Tribune, which it continued to publish until announcing that paper would close on January 13, 2023. [1]

Contents

The Daily Tidings was distributed Monday through Saturday (Saturday afternoon publication was changed under Editor Andrew Scot Bolsinger in 2004; Circulation Director Ed Rose changed the Daily Tidings from afternoon production to morning in December 2010). It was one of Oregon's smallest-circulation dailies, along with the Baker City Herald in the state's northeast region.

On July 15, 2021, the owner of the Daily Tidings announced the paper would be replaced with an Ashland Edition of the Mail Tribune starting August 1, 2021. [2]

History

Edd Ellsworth Rountree was the owner and publisher from 1960 to 1970, and was known for his popular column on politics, current events appearing on front page with caracature above noting his opinion. Was named “Man of the Year” in 1970. [3]

The Daily Tidings was owned, along with the Medford Mail Tribune and a number of other newspapers around the United States, by the Local Media Group, a subsidiary of international company News Corp. [4] On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers were to be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp CEO and former Wall Street Journal editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. [5] GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. [6]

In 2017, the Tidings and the Mail Tribune were sold by GateHouse to Rosebud Media. [7]

Awards

The Tidings was one of three daily newspapers to win the Charles Sprague Award of General Excellence from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association (ONPA) in 1981. [8] In 2006 the Daily Tidings was awarded the "General Excellence" prize by the ONPA. In 2015, it won five awards including a first place for best educational coverage, from the ONPA. [9]

Front page of the newspaper on September 2, 1919 Ashland Daily Tidings.jpg
Front page of the newspaper on September 2, 1919

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  2. ↑ Saslow, Steven (July 15, 2021). "The Time is Now. Changes to the Mail Tribune and Ashland Tidings". Mail Tribune . Archived from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  3. ↑ "Retired Ashland Publisher Dies at 67". The Oregonian. June 11, 1985.
  4. ↑ Rafter, Michelle V. (January 31, 2009). "Good news for small papers". Oregon Business.
  5. ↑ Frank, Christine (September 4, 2013). "News Corp. sells 33 papers to New York investors". New York Business Journal. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Pearson, Sophia; Kary, Tiffany (September 27, 2013). "GateHouse Files for Bankruptcy as Part of Fortress Plan". Bloomberg. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ Stiles, Greg (January 31, 2017). "Updated: Mail Tribune and Daily Tidings sold to Rosebud Media". Mail Tribune. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
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  9. ↑ Daily Tidings earns 5 awards from publishers' group, Mail Tribune , July 24, 2016. Retrieved May 24,2022.


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