Capital Press

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Capital Press Agriculture Weekly
Capital Press building.JPG
Headquarters in Salem
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) EO Media Group
Founder(s)Abner M. Church
PublisherJoe Beach
Founded1928
Headquarters1400 Broadway St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Circulation 20,090 Print
1,183 Digital(as of 2023) [1]
ISSN 2767-9721
OCLC number 180688805
Website capitalpress.com

The Capital Press is a weekly agricultural newspaper covering the West Coast of the United States, and published in Salem, Oregon. The newspaper covers farming, ranching and agriculture industries in the Pacific Northwest. The newspaper is owned by the EO Media Group. [2]

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History

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. At the time the paper focused solely on covering the Hollywood neighborhood in Salem. The Rand family changed the paper's focus in the 1960s to agricultural after noticing that many farmers bought classified ads in newspaper and thought they were an underserved market. 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. [5]

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References

  1. "EO Media Group Publishing Map". EO Media Group LLC. 2023-03-06. Archived from the original on April 19, 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  2. "Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association - Associate Member Directory" . Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  3. "Capital Press". EO Media Group. June 10, 2016. Archived from the original on September 6, 2016. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
  4. "Salem farm weekly sold". Statesman Journal. November 16, 1990. p. 48.
  5. "Elder Statesman: Old leather gadget bag brings back photographic memories". The News Review. July 22, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2024.