Pamplin Media Group

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Pamplin Media Group
Type Private
Industry Media
Founded2001
Founder Robert B. Pamplin, Jr.
Area served
 Portland metropolitan area
Number of employees
200
Website pamplinsubscribe.com

The Pamplin Media Group (PMG) is a media conglomerate owned by Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. and operating primarily in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of 2019, the company owns 25 newspapers and employs 200 people. [1]

Contents

Each chain writes and edits its own stories and shares them with each other and several subscribers, including newspapers in Medford, Corvallis, and Albany. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

History

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. [9]

As of 2009, it owned newspapers in Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Columbia counties. [10]

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. [11] [12] In June 2013, it also purchased the Central Oregonian from Eagle. [13]

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. [14]

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. [15]

On July 19, 2022, digital editor Geoff Pursinger published a column announcing Pamplin would no longer host online comments on the articles published to its websites starting Aug. 1. [16]

In April 2023, Pamplin launched YourOregonNews.com, which aggregates stories from all of its newspapers. [17] That same year in June Pamplin agreed to sell its 39,000-square-foot Milwaukie-area building headquarters to Clackamas County for $11 million. [18] 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. [19]

In December 2023, Pamplin announced its Gresham printing plant would close next 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. [20]

Newspapers

Newspapers owned by Pamplin Media Group
StateService areaNewspaper
Oregon Beaverton Beaverton Valley Times
Sellwood (Portland) The Bee
Canby Canby Herald
Prineville Central Oregonian [21]
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
Sherwood Sherwood Gazette
Scappoose Columbia County Spotlight
Southwest Portland Southwest Community Connection
Tigard/Tualatin The Valley Times (Tigard/Tualatin)
West Linn West Linn Tidings
Wilsonville Wilsonville Spokesman
Woodburn Woodburn Independent
Statewide Business Tribune

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  6. ↑ "Expanded state government reporting comes to Oregon". Blue Mountain Eagle. September 24, 2018. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
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  14. ↑ "Defying trend, newspaper companies launch new Salem bureau". Portland Tribune. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  15. ↑ "About Us". Oregon Capital Insider. Archived from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  16. ↑ Pursinger, Geoff. "Column: Our comments are leaving; our commitment isn't". pamplinmedia.com. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  17. ↑ "Pamplin Media launches regional website – YourOregonNews.com". YourOregonNews.com . April 24, 2023. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
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