Chinook Observer

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Chinook Observer
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s) EO Media Group
PublisherMatt Winters
Founded1900
Headquarters205 Bolstad Avenue E. Suite 2 Long Beach, WA 98631
Circulation 3,810 Print
852 Digital(as of 2023) [1]
ISSN 0739-9200
Website chinookobserver.com

The Chinook Observer is a weekly newspaper serving the Long Beach Peninsula of Washington state.

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History

The newspaper is named after Chinook, Washington, where the paper was founded in 1900 by George Hibbert and Frank Gaither. [2]

Chinook Observer staff July 4, 1903, taken at the newspaper's first office. Chinook Observer staff July 4, 1903, taken at the newspaper's first office.jpg
Chinook Observer staff July 4, 1903, taken at the newspaper's first office.

Hibbert sold the paper to John and Margaret Durkee in about 1923, who sold it to Bill Clancey in 1933, adding James O'Neil as a co-owner in 1937. O'Neil moved the paper to Long Beach in 1938. [2] James' son Wayne and daughter in law Frances took over the paper in 1963 and operated it for the next 20 years. [3]

The paper was purchased by Craig and Geri Dennis in 1984, then purchased in 1988 by the East Oregonian Publishing Company, now called the EO Media Group and printed at The Daily Astorian. [4] [2] Matt Winters—a 1983 graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law—became editor in 1991, and remained in that position as of 2019. [5]

As of about 2013 the paper claimed a circulation of 6,700, making it one of Washington's larger weekly newspapers. [3] In 2018, the Chinook Observer won the statewide Public Service Award from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association in recognition of its coverage of immigration issues and ICE enforcement activities. [2]

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Chinook Observer office 1905

The original Linotype machine, a Mergenthaler, was taken out of service in the 1970s and is on loan to the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco. [6]

In April 2024, the newspaper's office was sold. All staff have since worked remotely from their homes. [7]

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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. 1 2 3 4 "The Chinook Observer has more than a century of service". chinookobserver.com. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  3. 1 2 Bagwell, Steve; Stapilus, Randy (2013). New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be. Carlton, Oregon: Ridenbaugh Press. p. 226. ISBN   978-0-945648-10-9. OCLC   861618089.
  4. ↑ "New chief operating officer takes over at EOPC". Wallowa County Chieftain. June 2, 2005.
  5. ↑ Winters, Matt (July 28, 2011). "Editor's Notebook: Twenty years ago, I became editor of a rural newspaper". The Astorian. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Pieces of our Past - The original Observer linotype printing machine". chinookobserver.com. 2012-02-21. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  7. ↑ "The Astorian building is for sale, but newspaper operations are not". The Astorian. 2024-11-29. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
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