North Coast Citizen

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North Coast Citizen
Type Biweekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Country Media, Inc.
Founder(s)Dave Dillon
EditorWill Chappell
Founded1996
Headquarters1906 2nd St,
Tillamook, OR 97141
ISSN 1550-3909
OCLC number 35551857
Website northcoastcitizen.com

The North Coast Citizen is a biweekly newspaper in Manzanita, Oregon. [1]

History

In late 1995, about 30 people attended a community meeting organized Judd Burrow at his Arbors Bed and Breakfast. The group met to discuss a lack of news coverage from the Tillamook Headlight-Herald on the communities of Manzanita, Nehalem and Wheeler. Burrow proposed the creation of a newspaper for people living in north Tillamook County. [2]

After that meeting, ten people helped create the first edition of the North Coast Citizen, which was published in April 1996. By then only six people were still involved in the paper. Dave Dillon served as the paper's first editor due to his writing experience. In 2003, Dillon sold the newspaper to Tom Mauldin and Cat Mauldin, who owned the Cannon Beach Gazette. [2]

A year later the paper was sold again to Jan and Dave Fisher. [3] The couple ran it for three years until selling it in July 2007 to East Oregonian Publishing Company (now EO Media Group). [4] Two years later the newspaper was expanded from tabloid size to broadsheet. [5] In June 2011, the company sold the paper to Country Media, Inc. [6]

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References

  1. "The North Coast Citizen (Nehalem, Or.; Nehalem, or) 1996-Current". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
  2. 1 2 Waterloo, Michael (2014-09-26). "Newspaper's co-founder looks back on making North County history". Tillamook Headlight-Herald. Archived from the original on September 21, 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
  3. "Dave Fisher returns to the North Coast Citizen". Tillamook Headlight-Herald. 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
  4. "North Coast Citizen joins family-owned East Oregonian Publishing Co". East Oregonian. 2007-07-25. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
  5. "The Citizen gets supersized". Tillamook Headlight-Herald. 2009-11-05. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
  6. "Country Media buys North Coast Citizen". Tillamook Headlight-Herald. 2011-06-15. Archived from the original on October 3, 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-09.