The ''Idaho Statesman'' is the daily newspaper of
Boise, Idaho
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, in the western United States. It is owned by
The McClatchy Company
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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 published the ''Statesman'' until his death in 1928, when control was transferred to his daughter
Margaret Cobb Ailshie. 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
Washington
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,
Indiana
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, and
Michigan
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. Federated merged with
Gannett
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on August 3, 2005, along with ''
The Bellingham Herald'' and ''
The Olympian
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History
Olympia was home to the first newspaper to be published in modern-day Washington, ''The Columbian'', which published its first edition on September 11, ...
'' newspapers in
western Washington;
McClatchy 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 ''
Idaho Press-Tribune'' 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
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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.
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Marjorie Paxson
References
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