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Type | Tri-weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | EO Media Group |
Editor | Jayson Jacoby |
Founded | May 11, 1870 |
Headquarters | 1915 1st Street, Baker City, Oregon 97814 United States |
Circulation | 1,948 Print 329 Digital(as of 2023) [1] |
Website | bakercityherald |
The Baker City Herald is a tri-weekly paper published in Baker City, Oregon, United States, since 1870. [2] It is published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and is owned by EO Media Group. [2]
The Herald was established as the Bedrock-Democrat on May 11, 1870. [3] [4] Its founders were Milton H. Abbott, who had previously launched the Oregon Herald , and Lewis Linn McArthur. [3] [5] In 1887, Ira Bowen and George Small purchased the newspaper for $2,500. Bowen and Small published the Daily Democrat and ran the Bedrock Democrat as a weekly edition. [6] Their partnership ended in 1919. [7]
In 1929, the Bedrock-Democrat was purchased by Lucien P. Arant and Bernard Mainwaring. The new owners merged it with the city's other daily paper, the Morning Herald, to become the Baker Democrat-Herald. [8] [4] Arant published the paper for 32 years until selling it in 1957 to a group of Californians headed by Lee C. Bollinger. [9] A decade later Bollinger's ownership group sold it to the owners of the La Grande Observer , including Robert W. Chandler of Western Communications. [10]
When the city's name was changed from Baker back to Baker City in 1990, the paper was renamed to Baker City Herald. [11] The Herald went from being published five days a week to three on June 1, 2009. [4] In 2019, EO Media Group acquired the Baker City Herald from Western Communications. [12] [13] In June 2024, EO Media Group announced the Baker City Herald will cease print publication and go online-only. All print subscribers will instead receive the East Oregonian , published weekly and including news from Baker City Herald's website. [14] [15] The company was purchased by Carpenter Media Group in October 2024. [16]
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