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Country Media
Country Media, Inc. is an American media and web design company based in Salem, Oregon, which owns 10 community newspaper properties in Oregon and one in California. The company previously owned newspapers in the West North Central states. History Origins Country Media, Inc. was largely founded by Steve Hungerford, a Nebraska-native who earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska and a master's in journalism from the University of Oregon. He moved to Oregon in 1973 to purchase the weekly ''Milwaukie Review'' newspaper. In the mid-1980s, he was named director of human resources at the '' Salem Statesman Journal'' and, in 1988, became executive editor and publisher of the ''Daily Enterprise Courier'' in Oregon City. Hungerford and his wife Carol moved to Nebraska in 1990 when he was named publisher of the '' Scottsbluff Star-Herald''. A decade later Hungerford left his job in March 2000 to found Country Media, Inc. with his wife and a group of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem, Oregon
Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County, Oregon, Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk County, Oregon, Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem, Salem, Oregon, West Salem is in Polk County. Salem was founded in 1842, became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, and was incorporated in 1857. Salem had a population of 174,365 in 2019, making it the third-largest city in the state after Portland, Oregon, Portland and Eugene, Oregon, Eugene. Salem is the principal city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, a United States metropolitan area, metropolitan area that covers Marion and Polk counties and had a combined population of 390,738 at the 2010 census. A 2019 estimate placed the metropolitan population at 400,408, the state's second largest. This area is, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quad-City Times
The ''Quad-City Times'' is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area ( Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County in Illinois). As it is a regional newspaper, the ''Quad-City Times'' is also circulated and has readership in Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Louisa and Muscatine counties in Iowa; and Carroll, Henry, Mercer and Whiteside counties in Illinois. According to the Iowa Newspaper Association, the ''Quad-City Times'' has a circulation of 61,366. The newspaper is owned by Lee Enterprises, which is also located in Davenport. History The ''Quad-City Times'' grew from several predecessors, including the ''Democratic Banner'' and ''Blue Ribbon News''. The ''Democratic Banner'' was founded in 1848, was sold in 1855 to a group of businessmen and rechristened the ''Iowa State Democrat''. The ''Iowa State Democrat'' published its first edition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astoria, Oregon
Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. The county is the northwest corner of Oregon, and Astoria is located on the south shore of the Columbia River, where the river flows into the Pacific Ocean. The city is named for John Jacob Astor, an investor and entrepreneur from New York City, whose American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site and established a monopoly in the fur trade in the early 19th century. Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1876. The city is served by the deepwater Port of Astoria. Transportation includes the Astoria Regional Airport. U.S. Route 30 and U.S. Route 101 are the main highways, and the Astoria–Megler Bridge connects to neighboring Washington across the river. The population was 10,181 at the 2020 census. History Prehistoric sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaside Signal
The ''Seaside Signal'' is a weekly newspaper published for the community of Seaside, Oregon, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori .... History The ''Signal'' was founded Saturday, March 25, 1905 as a weekly. It was edited by R. M. Watson. The paper was a tabloid format and cost $2.00 for a year's subscription. On May 11, 1907 the newspaper changed to a broadsheet format. Since then, the ''Signal'' has changed formats numerous times. In February 2003, the paper was sold by Swift Communications to Kyle Larson, who sold it again in June 2005 to Tom and Annie Mullen and Gary and Sue Stevenson of Sheridan, Wyo., and Robb and Jenn Hicks of Buffalo, Wyo. The newspaper changed ownership for fourth time in seven years when in October 2007 it was sold to Countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The News Guard
The ''Lincoln City News Guard'' is a newspaper serving Lincoln City and its surrounding community in the U.S. state of Oregon. History Its predecessor was founded in 1927 (or 1931 or 1932), and is published weekly on Wednesdays. Prior to the 1965 incorporation of Lincoln City, the paper was known as the ''North Lincoln News Guard'', and was published in the communities of Delake and Nelscott. The ''News Guard'' was formed after a merger in 1939 of the ''Coast Guard'' and the ''Beach Resort News''. The Pioneer Newspaper Group of Idaho purchased the ''News Guard'' in 1980, along with three other coastal newspapers (the ''Tillamook Headlight-Herald'', the ''Seaside Signal'', and Ilwaco, Washington's ''Pacific Tribune''). The ''News Guard'' has won a number of statewide awards, including a general excellence award for smaller weekly papers in 1969, for photography and special issues in 1980, and more recently for best feature story. In 2012 Samantha Swindler, then the publisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headlight-Herald (Tillamook)
The ''Headlight-Herald'' is a weekly paper published in Tillamook, Oregon, United States, since 1888. It is published on Wednesdays by Country Media and has a circulation of 7,486. It is the newspaper of record for Tillamook County Tillamook County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,390. The county seat is Tillamook. The county is named for the Tillamook or Killamook people, a Native American tribe who we .... History The ''Headlight'', launched in 1888, is thought to have been Tillamook County's first newspaper. The Tillamook ''Advocate'' was founded in 1894, and used the plant previously owned by the ''Western Watchtower'', a short-lived newspaper launched in political opposition to the ''Headlight'' in the late 1880s. After being purchased by R. M. Watson in 1895, the ''Advocate'' was renamed the ''Herald'', and changed hands many times in the following years. The ''Headlight'' and the ''Herald'' merged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Forks Herald
The ''Grand Forks Herald'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper, established in 1879, published in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. It is the primary daily paper for northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Its average daily circulation is approximately 7,500, in the city of Grand Forks plus about 7,500 more to the surrounding communities. Total circulation includes digital subscribers. It has the second largest circulation in the state of North Dakota. Grand Forks Herald Building The ''Grand Forks Herald'' won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the 1997 flood but the prize was bittersweet, as the ''Herald'' building had not only been inundated but burned to the ground in the midst of the floodwaters. Despite losing its offices during the flood, the ''Herald'' never missed a day of publication. Temporary offices were set up at the University of North Dakota and at a nearby elementary school. Papers were distributed free of charge to flood "re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langdon, North Dakota
Langdon is a city in Cavalier County, North Dakota, Cavalier County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Cavalier County. The population was 1,909 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Langdon was designated as the county seat in 1884 and was incorporated in 1885. History A post office has been in operation in Langdon since 1886. The city was named for Robert Bruce Langdon, a politician and railroad official. On Memorial Day (then called Decoration Day) 1909, a tornado struck on the prairie a mile to a mile and a half southeast of Langdon, then moved seven miles in a northwest direction. The tornado, locally dubbed The Vulcan, killed five people and injured 29. Notably, Mrs. M.L. Sullivan ran for safety but the tornado hit as she arrived at her cellar door. When the winds subsided, she was standing in the cellar with its broken doorknob in her hand. Katie Diamond was lifted above treetops and telephone poles, and then dropped in a yard, virtually un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker, Montana
Baker is a city in and the county seat of Fallon County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,802 at the 2020 census. It was named after A. G. Baker, an engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. History Baker was built along the transcontinental rail line of the Milwaukee Road near where the railroad created a lake to supply water to its steam locomotives. The city was known as Lorraine for a brief time before being renamed in honor of Milwaukee Road engineer A.G. Baker. A successful Milwaukee Land Company campaign to attract homesteaders to the area allowed the city to grow and serve a large community of dryland farmers. Additional growth occurred following the 1912 discovery of oil and natural gas deposits nearby. In 2014, Baker was described as "a busy, noisy, traffic-jammed, bursting-at-the-seams boomtown on the edge of the oil fields." On June 11, 2016 an EF-3 Tornado struck Baker destroying several houses and damaging dozens more, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowman, North Dakota
Bowman is a city and county seat of Bowman County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 1,470 at the 2020 census. History Bowman was founded in 1907 at about the same time the railroad was extended to that point. The city took its name from Bowman County. A post office has been in operation at Bowman since 1907. Geography Bowman is located at (46.181791, −103.400211). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Bowman has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated ''BSk'' on climate maps, although it closely borders the state’s more typical humid continental climate (''Dfb''). Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,650 people, 760 households, and 422 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 867 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.7% White, 0.2% Native American, 0.1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFYR-TV
KFYR-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC and Fox. Owned by Gray Television, the station has studios on North 4th Street and East Broadway Avenue in downtown Bismarck, and its transmitter is located near St. Anthony, North Dakota. KFYR-TV serves as the flagship station of NBC North Dakota, a regional network of four stations relaying NBC network and other programming provided by KFYR across central and western North Dakota, as well as bordering counties in Montana and South Dakota. The three satellite stations clear all network and syndicated programming as provided through KFYR but air separate legal identifications and commercial inserts. KQCD-TV (channel 7) in Dickinson simulcasts all of KFYR's programming, while KMOT (channel 10) in Minot also produces its own weekday local newscasts at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., and KUMV-TV (channel 8) in Williston simulcasts KMOT's newscasts with local inserts. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bismarck Tribune
''The Bismarck Tribune'' is a daily newspaper with a weekly audience of 82,000 unique readers, printed daily in Bismarck, North Dakota. Owned by Lee Enterprises, it is the only daily newspaper for south-central and southwest North Dakota. History Founded in 1873 by Clement A. Lounsberry, the ''Bismarck Tribune'' published its first issue on July 11, 1873. It has been known as the ''Bismarck Daily Tribune'' (1881–1916) and ''Bismarck Tri-Weekly Tribune'' (1875–1881). Battle of the Little Bighorn The ''Tribune''s first claim to fame came in 1876, when the three-year-old paper published the first reports of George Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn. Reporter Mark H. Kellogg accompanied Custer and his men and died during the battle. Awards In 1938, the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service after publishing a series of articles called "Self-Help in the Dust Bowl." Notable reporters * Mark Kellogg See also * List of newspapers in North Dakota This is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
