Pioneer News Group

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Pioneer News Group
StatusDefunct
Founded1974
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationSeattle, Washington
Publication typesNewspapers
Owner(s)Scripps family
Official website pioneernewsgroup.com

Pioneer News Group was an American media company. [1] The company was founded in 1974 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. [1] It was owned by the Scripps family, who had also started the E. W. Scripps Company. [2] The Pioneer News Groups had printing facilities in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Oregon, and Washington. [1] In October 2017, Pioneer announced that it was selling its newspaper business to the Adams Publishing Group. [3]

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History

In December 1975, Scripps League Newspapers spun off a number of numbers to form a new company called Pioneer Newspapers, Inc. The enterprise would be owned and operated by James George Scripps, [4] [5] who was the brother of Scripps League chairman Edward W. Scripps and grandson of E. W. Scripps. [6] The newspapers included were: Grass Valley Union , Caldwell News-Tribune, The Idaho Press , Idaho State Journal , The Bemidji Pioneer , Bozeman Daily Chronicle , Havre Daily News , Herald and News , Canonsburg Notes, Monongahela Herald, Waynesburg Democrat Messenger, The Herald Journal , Skagit Valley Herald . [4]

Other newspaper companies affiliated with Pioneer in 1976 were Kalb Newspapers, the Scripps-Ifft group, the Scripps-Wood group and Swift Newspapers. [7] In 1983, Pioneer Newspapers merged with Swift Newspapers, owned by Philip E, Swift, to form Swift-Pioneer Newspapers, Inc. [8] That same year Nicholas Ifft sold Scripps-Ifft Newspapers, Inc. to James George Scripps. [9]

The company's owner James George Scripps died in December 1986. [10] [6] In the years that followed Pioneer acquired the Daily Record in 1996, [11] Lone Peak Lookout in 1998 [12] and the Standard Journal and Fremont County Herald-Chonicle in 2000. [13] Pioneer launched the Belgrade News in 2004. [14] The company sold the Havre Daily News [15] and purchased the Teton Valley News in 2005. [16] Pioneer purchased the Preston Citizen, the Tremonton Leader and News-Examiner in 2007. [17]

In 2013, the company was renamed to Pioneer News Group. [18] In 2015, the company purchased the Stanwood Camano News . [19] In October 2017, Pioneer sold its 22 newspapers to Adams Publishing Group. [20]

Publications owned in 2017

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