The ''Ashland Daily Tidings'' was a morning newspaper serving the city of Ashland,

Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...

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 territorie ...

. It was owned by Rosebud Media, like its sister publication, the Medford-based ''

Mail Tribune The ''Mail Tribune'' is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Medford, Oregon, United States that serves Jackson County, Oregon, and adjacent areas of Josephine County, Oregon and northern California. Its coverage area centers on Medford and A ...

,'' which has continued to publish. The ''Daily Tidings'' was distributed Monday through Saturday mornings (Saturday afternoon publication was changed under Editor Andrew Scot Bolsinger in 2004; Circulation Director Ed Rose changed the Daily Tidings from afternoon production to morning in December, 2010). It was one of Oregon's smallest-circulation dailies, along with the ''

Baker City Herald The ''Baker City Herald'' is a tri-weekly paper published in Baker City, Oregon, United States, since 1870. It is published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays by EO Media Group and has a circulation of 2,304. History The ''Herald'' was established ...

'' in the state's northeast region. On July 15, 2021, the owner of the Tidings announced he would permanently close the newspaper on Aug. 1, 2021.

History

Edd Ellsworth Rountree was the owner and publisher from 1960 to 1970, and was known for his left-leaning column "Friday Fish Fry." The ''Daily Tidings'' was owned, along with the Medford ''

'' and a number of other newspapers around the United States, by the

Local Media Group Local Media Group, Inc., formerly Dow Jones Local Media Group and Ottaway Newspapers Inc., owned newspapers, Web sites and niche publications in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It was headquart ...

, a subsidiary of international company

News Corp News Corporation, stylized as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The second incarnation of the News Corporation (1980–2013), original News Corporation, it was formed ...

. On September 4, 2013,

announced that it would sell Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of

Fortress Investment Group Fortress Investment Group is an American investment management firm based in New York City. Fortress was founded as a private equity firm in 1998 by Wes Edens, Rob Kauffman, and Randal Nardone. When Fortress launched on the NYSE in February 200 ...

, for $87 million. The newspapers were to be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former ''Wall Street Journal'' editor

Robert James Thomson Robert Thomson (born 11 March 1961) is an Australian journalist. Since January 2013 he has been chief executive of News Corp. Life Thomson was born in Torrumbarry, Victoria, and studied at Christian Brothers College in St Kilda East, and a ...

indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. In 2017, the ''Tidings'' and the ''Mail Tribune'' were sold by GateHouse to Rosebud Media.

Awards

The ''Tidings'' was one of three daily newspapers to win the Charles Sprague Award of General Excellence from the

Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association The Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association is a trade association for all paid-circulation daily, weekly, and multi-weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Oregon. It represents and promotes newspapers, and encourages excellence in reporting and ...

(ONPA) in 1981. In 2006 the ''Daily Tidings'' was awarded the "General Excellence" prize by the ONPA. In 2015, it won five awards including a first place for best educational coverage, from the ONPA.Daily Tidings earns 5 awards from publishers' group
''

'', July 24, 2016. Retrieved May 24,2022. Ashland Daily Tidings

References

External links

''2006 Better Newspaper Contest winners, ONPA''
1876 establishments in Oregon Ashland, Oregon Mass media in Jackson County, Oregon Newspapers published in Jackson County, Oregon Newspapers published in Oregon Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Publications established in 1876 {{Oregon-newspaper-stub