The ''Idaho Statesman'' is the daily newspaper of

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, in the western United States. It is owned by

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History

The paper was first published as the ''Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman'' on July 26, 1864, by James S. Reynolds; it began publication from a log cabin on the current site of Boise City Hall. Reynolds owned and operated the paper for its first eight years, selling to Judge Milton Kelly in 1872. Kelly's 17-year run ended in 1888, with the expansion to daily publication, and a name change: The ''Idaho Daily Statesman''. That summer, Kelly sold the paper to the Cobb family, which went on to run the paper for 70 years.

Calvin Cobb Calvin Cobb was born July 15, 1853, in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up in Chicago and worked with his father in the Cobb Library publishing house. During the 1880s he became involved in the livestock trade. Because of this work he ended up traveling we ...

published the ''Statesman'' until his death in 1928, when control was transferred to his daughter

Margaret Cobb Ailshie Margaret Cobb Ailshie (March 27, 1883 – August 26, 1959) was a social belle, publisher, and social activist in Boise and Chicago. Early years Born in Chicago in 1883, she lived in Chicago for only six years before her father Calvin Cobb bought ...

. The paper's history site says "Ailshie insisted on a lively editorial policy, deploring 'a dull newspaper'". Cobb Ailshie died in 1959, and general manager James Brown took control of the paper. Federated Publications bought the ''Idaho Statesman'' in 1963. It joined five other publications in

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, and

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. Federated merged with

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on August 3, 2005, along with ''

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'' and ''

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'' newspapers in

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;

McClatchy The McClatchy Company, commonly referred to as simply McClatchy, is an American publishing company incorporated under Delaware's General Corporation Law and based in Sacramento, California. It operates 29 daily newspapers in fourteen states and ...

bought Knight Ridder the following year. On February 13, 2020, parent company McClatchy filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As of that date, they owned 30 newspapers nationwide.

Outsourced printing

In 2008, the ''Statesman'' entered into a strategic partnership with the ''

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'' to print the newspaper in Nampa, west of Boise. This partnership allowed the ''Statesman'' to reduce expenses amidst declining revenues. A decade later in 2018, printing moved to the in southeast of Boise. Publications: * ''Idaho Statesman'' - daily newspaper * ''Scene'' - weekly entertainment tabloid * IdahoStatesman.com - online news * ''Treasure Magazine'' - quarterly lifestyle magazine * ''Business Insider'' - weekly business publication

Notable people

* E. L. "Shorty" Fuller was a photographer for the Statesman from 1937–1942. An archive of his work is found in the Idaho State Historical Society containing 3,000 of his negatives, prints and scrapbooks.ef name="ISADC"> *

Marjorie Paxson Marjorie Paxson (August 13, 1923 – June 17, 2017) was an American newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher during an era in American history when the women's liberation movement was setting milestones by tackling the barriers of discriminat ...

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