Dead Mountain Echo

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Dead Mountain Echo
Type Weekly newspaper
Founder(s)Dennis Keffer
Founded1973
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationSeptember 2020
City Oakridge, Oregon
Circulation 465
OCLC number 23860553

The Dead Mountain Echo was a weekly newspaper published Tuesdays in Oakridge in the U.S. state of Oregon from 1973 [1] [2] [3] to 2020. [4] The Echo was a general member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association [5] and its coverage was mentioned or picked up by various neighboring news organizations. [6] [7] [8] [9] Its circulation was reported as 465. [2]

Contents

History

Dennis Keffer started the Dead Mountain Echo in 1973. Keffer had little journalism experience at the time and created the paper with an initial investment of $300 and a IBM standard type-writer. But within two years he was able to grow circulation to 1,500 and gross $50,000 annually. This was in spite of competition from the Oakridge Telegram, which was more than two decades older. [10]

Larry Roberts joined the Echo in 1973, and became its owner. As of November, 2017 the owner is Viki Burns Publishing, LLC; [5] Burns started with the Echo on or before 2015. [11] She relinquished ownership back to Larry and Debra Roberts in October 2020. Efforts to sell the newspaper were unsuccessful and it subsequently closed.

After the paper ceased, Doug Bates launched a successor digital news outlet called the Highway 58 Herald. [12] [4]

Achievements

When it launched in the 1970s, the Echo drove a 70-year competitor out of business. [13] In 1975, the Echo won the "general excellence" award for small weeklies from the ONPA. [14] [15] Award-winning journalist Alan Robertson got his start in the newspaper business at the Echo in 1978. [13] In 1980, the paper took second place in the "Special Issue" category in the ONPA awards. [16] Tom Henderson, a humor/opinion columnist in northern Idaho, made several references to the Echo in his column in the 2000s. [17] [18] [19]

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  4. 1 2 Bates, Doug (2021-03-01). "Welcome to a New Website Devoted to Filling the Void for Oregon's Highway 58 Region". Highway 58 Herald. Archived from the original on March 30, 2023. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
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  6. ↑ "Lane Electric: Dead tree likely fell on power lines, sparking fire in Oakridge". KVAL. 25 July 2017. Archived from the original on 2018-07-19. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Home lost to Oakridge fire: 'I tried to get the garden hose but by then it was too late'". KMTR. 25 July 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-08-03. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  8. ↑ Baker, Mark (June 11, 2015). "Comeback kid - A once-angry youth overcomes long odds to earn a degree". The Register-Guard.
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  10. ↑ Nicholls, Stephen (October 23, 1974). "Starting Small Newspaper From Scratch Not Easy Task". Oregon Journal. p. 34.
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  15. ↑ "Rebuilding of Trust Needed". The Oregonian. July 12, 1975. p. 12.
  16. ↑ "Eugene paper wins 8: Oregon publications cited". The Oregonian. July 13, 1980. p. 84.
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