West Linn Tidings

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West Linn Tidings
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Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s) Pamplin Media Group
Founder(s)Joseph W. Blaha
PublisherJ. Brian Moniha
EditorPatrick Malee
Founded1981
Circulation 5,560(as of 2022) [1]
Website westlinntidings.com

The West Linn Tidings is a weekly newspaper published in West Linn, Oregon, United States, a suburb of Portland. It is owned by the Pamplin Media Group. [2] [3] A 2014 Daily Beast story noted the amusing crime blotter stories in the Tidings as well as the neighboring Lake Oswego Review . [4] As of 2017, the Tidings had a partnership with KOIN, a local television station. [5]

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History

In 1981, [6] Joe Blaha, who worked at Eagle Newspapers, founded the West Linn Tidings. [7] In 1987, the newspaper was merged along with the Lake Oswego Review into Times Publishing Co. [8] a subsidiary of The Guard Publishing Co. which owned The Register-Guard . [9] The joint venture with Eagle was called Community Newspapers, Inc. [10] The business was sold to Steve Clark in 1996. [11] Pamplin Media Group bought the paper along with ten others in August 2000. [12] Robert B. Pamplin Jr. sold his newspaper company in June 2024 to Carpenter Media Group. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Pamplin Media Group: Media Kit 2022" (PDF). October 19, 2022. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Oregon Secretary of State: Newspapers Published in Oregon" . Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Tidings". Chronicling America. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ Brown, Kelly Williams (January 11, 2014). "In Oregon, No Silly Call Is Too Small for Papers' Police Blotters". The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ Wicks, Chelsea (October 17, 2017). "West Linn Paper Company will close after 128 years". KOIN. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  6. ↑ "West Linn Tidings". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Joe Blaha obituary". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Oregon papers to merge". The World. December 5, 1987. p. 19.
  9. ↑ "Eagle to manage Times publications". The Oregonian. February 8, 1985. p. 75.
  10. ↑ "Media". The Oregonian. March 7, 1988. p. 36.
  11. ↑ "Couple buys chain of community newspapers for undisclosed price". The Oregonian. October 10, 1996. p. 19. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
  12. ↑ McCall, William (February 8, 2001). "Portland's venerable daily newspaper gets a competitor". The Desert Sun. p. 87. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
  13. ↑ Rogoway, Mike (June 3, 2024). "Pamplin Media, Portland Tribune's owner, sells to Carpenter Media". The Oregonian. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
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