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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Pamplin Media Group |
Founder(s) | Thomas Russ Dillon |
Publisher | J. Brian Monihan |
Editor | Patrick Malee |
Founded | 1985 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Wilsonville, Oregon, USA |
Circulation | 5,254(as of 2022) [1] |
Website | wilsonvillespokesman |
The Wilsonville Spokesman is the local weekly newspaper in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Published on Wednesdays, [2] the paper is owned by Pamplin Media Group, which owns other local newspapers in Oregon such as The Newberg Graphic and The Canby Herald .
The Valley Publishing Company launched the Wilsonville Times in 1972. It was a free weekly newspaper delivered to 4,600 residents in Wilsonville, Oregon. [3] The Times folded in 1984 due to it being an unsuccessful business venture for its entire existence. [4] The following year Thomas Russ Dillon, who worked at Eagle Newspapers as publisher of the Canby Herald , founded a paper to replace the Times called the Wilsonville Spokesman. [5] The paper was originally a combined edition titled the Canby Herald & Wilsonville Spokesman. The two papers were separated after a year. [6] In January 2013, Eagle Newspapers sold the Spokesman to Pamplin Media Group. [7] [8] Robert B. Pamplin Jr. sold the company in June 2024 to Carpenter Media Group. [9]
In 2003, the newspaper won two awards from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. [10] That year an opinion piece printed in the paper was part of a lawsuit by a city employee against the city council relating to protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. [11] In 2006, the paper took two second and two third place awards for newspapers in their category from the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. [12]