Newspaper in Sandy, Oregon
The Sandy Post is a weekly newspaper in Oregon serving Sandy , the Villages at Mount Hood and the surrounding areas. It is owned by Pamplin Media Group .
History
The paper was founded in 1937.[ 2] Walter C. Taylor Jr. bought the Sandy Post , along with the nearby Gresham Outlook and several other Oregon papers, in the early 1960s.[ 3] Taylor and Lee Irwin sold the newspaper in 1977 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the Albany Democrat-Herald .[ 4]
Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980,[ 5] which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.[ 6] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.[ 7] Three years later Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. acquired the Post from Lee Enterprises in 2000.[ 8] Pamplin Media Group was sold to June 2024 to Carpenter Media Group.[ 9] Later that year the Estacada News was absorbed into the Post .[ 10]
Awards
In 2019 the Post won the General Excellence award for weekly newspapers from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association .[ 11]
References
^ "Pamplin Media Group: Media Kit 2022" (PDF) . 2022-10-19. Retrieved 2023-04-18 .
^ "The Sandy Post" . Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association . Retrieved November 25, 2014 .
^ Franzen, Robin (December 21, 2006). "Longtime Northwest publisher dies at 87". The Oregonian .
^ "Publisher buys 4 weeklies". Statesman Journal . February 10, 1977. p. 37.
^ "Paper sale should be final today". Albany Democrat-Herald . July 14, 1980. p. 3.
^ Geraldine Fabrikant (5 January 1996). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal" . The New York Times . Retrieved July 8, 2013 .
^ "Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC". The Oregonian . September 9, 1997. p. 45.
^ Tomlinson, Stuart (November 12, 2000). "Millionaire buys four more news operations". The Sunday Oregonian , p. B8.
^ Rogoway, Mike (June 3, 2024). "Pamplin Media, Portland Tribune's owner, sells to Carpenter Media" . The Oregonian . Retrieved June 8, 2024 .
^ Brown, Steve (2024-08-22). "Help the Estacada News: Our newspaper is making big changes, but it's not too late to help" . Estacada News . Retrieved 2024-08-25 .
^ "Trio of newspapers win General Excellence awards" . TheOutlookOnline.com . 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2023-04-19 .
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