Company type | Private |
---|---|
Industry | Media |
Founded | 2001 |
Founder | Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. |
Area served | Portland metropolitan area |
Owner | Carpenter Media Group |
Number of employees | 200 |
Website | pamplinsubscribe |
The Pamplin Media Group (PMG) is a media conglomerate owned by Carpenter Media Group and operating primarily in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. founded the company in 2001 and sold it to Carpenter in 2024. [1] [2] As of 2019, the company owns 25 newspapers and employs 200 people. [3]
Each chain writes and edits its own stories and shares them with each other and several subscribers, including newspapers in Medford, Corvallis, and Albany. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
The Portland Tribune newspaper, founded by Pamplin in 2001, is the largest newspaper in the group. PMG also includes a group of newspapers formerly known as Community Newspapers, Incorporated, serving the Portland area. Most of them are published once a week. The company launched the Hillsboro Tribune in September 2012. [11]
As of 2009, it owned newspapers in Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Columbia counties. [12]
On January 8, 2013, it bought five newspapers from Eagle Newspapers, Inc. in the Portland area ( Canby Herald , Wilsonville Spokesman , Molalla Pioneer , The Newberg Graphic , and the Woodburn Independent ), along with The Madras Pioneer in Central Oregon. [13] [14] In June 2013, it also purchased the Central Oregonian from Eagle. [15]
In 2014, Pamplin partnered with the EO Media Group, which publishes the East Oregonian and several other weekly and monthly publications in Oregon, to form the Oregon Capital Bureau and publish the Oregon Capital Insider newsletter. The partnership came as the number of reporters assigned to state capital bureaus nationwide was on the decline. [16]
In 2018, the newly-launched Salem Reporter joined the bureau, and its publisher, Les Zaitz, was assigned to lead its three reporters. The Salem Reporter left the cooperative in early 2020 and Zaitz left the operation. The Oregon Capital Bureau as of late winter 2020 includes just the EO Media Group and Pamplin. [17]
On July 19, 2022, digital editor Geoff Pursinger published a column announcing that Pamplin would no longer host online comments on the articles published to its websites starting Aug. 1. [18]
In April 2023, Pamplin launched YourOregonNews.com, which aggregates stories from all of its newspapers. [19] That same year in June Pamplin agreed to sell its 39,000-square-foot Milwaukie-area building headquarters to Clackamas County for $11 million. [20] In August, the Clackamas Review switched from weekly to monthly publication and was renamed to the Milwaukie Review. The Oregon City News switched to monthly publication as well. [21]
In December 2023, Pamplin announced its Gresham printing plant would close the following month and about two dozen employees would lose their jobs. Pamplin will shift production of its newspapers to The Columbian 's plant in Vancouver, Washington. [22]
In June 2024, Pamplin was sold to Carpenter Media Group [1] [2] Six weeks later an unknown number of employees were laid off, including longtime statehouse reporter Peter Wong. [23] That same month the Sherwood Gazette ceased publication. [24]
State | Service area | Newspaper |
---|---|---|
Oregon | Beaverton | Beaverton Valley Times |
Sellwood (Portland) | The Bee | |
Canby | Canby Herald | |
Prineville | Central Oregonian [25] | |
Clackamas | Clackamas Review | |
Estacada | Estacada News | |
Forest Grove | Forest Grove News-Times | |
Hillsboro | Hillsboro Tribune | |
Lake Oswego | Lake Oswego Review | |
Madras | The Madras Pioneer | |
Molalla | Molalla Pioneer | |
Newberg | The Newberg Graphic | |
Oregon City | Oregon City News | |
Gresham | The Outlook | |
Portland | Portland Tribune | |
Sandy | Sandy Post | |
Scappoose | Columbia County Spotlight | |
Southwest Portland | Southwest Community Connection | |
Tigard/Tualatin/Sherwood | The Valley Times (Tigard/Tualatin) | |
West Linn | West Linn Tidings | |
Wilsonville | Wilsonville Spokesman | |
Woodburn | Woodburn Independent | |
Statewide | Business Tribune |
Clackamas County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Oregon City. The county was named after the native people living in the area at the time of the coming of Europeans, the Clackamas people, who are part of the Chinookan peoples.
Milwaukie is a city mostly in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States; a very small portion of the city extends into Multnomah County. The population was 21,119 at the 2020 census. Founded in 1847 on the banks of the Willamette River, the city, known as the Dogwood City of the West, was incorporated in 1903 and is the birthplace of the Bing cherry. The city is now a suburb of Portland and also adjoins the unincorporated areas of Clackamas and Oak Grove.
The East Oregonian (EO) is a daily newspaper published in Pendleton, Oregon, United States and covering Umatilla and Morrow counties.
The Central Oregonian is a twice-weekly newspaper published in Prineville in the U.S. state of Oregon.
The Woodburn Independent is a weekly paper published in Woodburn, Oregon, United States, and also covering the cities of Hubbard, Aurora, Donald, Gervais, St. Paul and Mt. Angel, and the surrounding area of Marion County. The Independent was founded in 1888. It is published on Wednesdays by Pamplin Media Group.
The News-Times is a weekly newspaper covering the cities of Forest Grove and Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1886 and with coverage focused on Forest Grove for most of its history, the paper only recently added equivalent coverage of the much larger city of Hillsboro, when, in August 2019, publisher Pamplin Media Group launched a separate Hillsboro edition of the News-Times, to replace Pamplin's Hillsboro Tribune. The paper is published on Wednesdays. It is owned by Pamplin Media Group, which owns other community newspapers in the Portland metropolitan area.
The Forest Grove Leader was a weekly community newspaper in Forest Grove in the U.S. state of Oregon. Started in 2012, it was published by the Oregonian Publishing Company, which also published The Hillsboro Argus newspaper and continues to publish The Oregonian. The free publication competed with the News-Times in the city, a suburb of the Portland metropolitan area. In January 2016, it was combined with two other newspapers to form the Washington County Argus, but the Argus ceased publication only 14 months later, in March 2017.
The Columbia County Spotlight, previously known as the Scappoose Spotlight and the South County Spotlight, is a weekly newspaper in Columbia County, Oregon, United States, established in 1961.
Rebecca Anderson (Muessle) (born May 1991) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Oregon City, Oregon. She won a series of local titles beginning in 2011 and was crowned Miss Oregon 2014.
The Blue Mountain Eagle is a weekly newspaper published on Wednesdays in John Day, Oregon.
The Malheur Enterprise is a weekly newspaper in Vale, Oregon. It was established in 1909, and since October 2015 has been published by Malheur Enterprise Pub. Co. It is issued weekly on Wednesdays. Early on, it carried the title Malheur Enterprise and Vale Plaindealer. As of 2018 its circulation has been estimated at 1,207 to 1,277. Its print and online circulation in 2022 was approximately 3,000.
The EO Media Group, formerly known as the East Oregonian Publishing Company, is a newspaper publishing company based in the U.S. state of Oregon. It publishes 17 newspapers in the state and in southwestern Washington.
Journalism in the U.S. state of Oregon had its origins from the American settlers of the Oregon Country in the 1840s. This was decades after explorers like Robert Gray and Lewis and Clark first arrived in the region, several months before the first newspaper was issued in neighboring California, and several years before the United States formally asserted control of the region by establishing the Oregon Territory.
Salem Reporter is a digital news service based in Salem, Oregon. It was launched in September 2018 by longtime investigative journalist Les Zaitz, with investment from businessman Larry Tokarski, president of a real estate development firm. Its primary revenue source is from reader subscriptions, which cost $10/month. The site aims to distinguish itself from its competitors with the quality and credibility of its reporting. According to local news scholar Damian Radcliffe, the Reporter's freedom from the legacy costs that a traditional newspaper like the Statesman Journal has allowed it to enter the field with unusual agility.
The Oregon Capital Bureau is a joint effort of two family-owned news publishers to improve news coverage of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Oregon, one from each of the state's six congressional districts. Primaries for these seats were held on May 17, 2022. The elections coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices.
Canby Asparagus Farm and Casa de Tamales are a farm operation and Mexican restaurant based in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States.
Mike's Drive-In is a small chain of drive-in restaurants, based in the U.S. state of Oregon. There are currently restaurants in Milwaukie, Oregon City, and Tigard; Mike's previously had a location in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland and currently has plans to open a location in North Portland.
Davis Graveyard is an annual Halloween yard display at a private residence in Milwaukie, Oregon.