Lebanon Express

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Lebanon Express
Lebanon Express march 5 1887 front.jpg
Front page on March 5, 1887
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Lee Enterprises
PublisherJeff Precourt [1]
EditorLes Gehrett [2]
FoundedMarch 5, 1887;138 years ago (1887-03-05)
Ceased publicationJanuary 18, 2023
Headquarters
CountryUnited States
Circulation 2,149(as of 2014) [1]
ISSN 2472-6648
OCLC number 38041261
Website lebanon-express.com

The Lebanon Express was a weekly newspaper in Lebanon, Oregon. It was owned by Lee Enterprises. [1] The paper ceased publication in January 2023. [3]

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History

The Lebanon Express was first published by Jacob H. Stine on March 5, 1887. Stine left the paper after a year. In 1987, Hugh Yandel Kirkpatrick merged the Lebanon Express with the Lebanon Advance to form Lebanon Express-Advance. The name was changed back to the Lebanon Express in 1912. [4]

Robert Hayden owned the Lebanon Express for 34 years until selling it in 1970 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co. [5] Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980, [6] which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995. [7] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997. [8]

The paper published its final edition on Jan. 18, 2023 and rolled coverage of the area into The Albany Democrat-Herald. [9] [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lebanon Express". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association . Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Contact Staff". Lebanon Express. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Lehman, Chris M. (January 20, 2023). "Oregon loses yet another newspaper". KLCC. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
  4. ↑ "About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Albany Company Acquires Lebanon, Ashland Papers". The Capital Journal. March 4, 1970. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Paper sale should be final today". Albany Democrat-Herald. July 14, 1980. p. 3.
  7. ↑ Geraldine Fabrikant (January 5, 1996). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal". The New York Times . Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC". The Oregonian. September 9, 1997. p. 45.
  9. ↑ "Page A1". Lebanon Express. Retrieved January 19, 2023.


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