Each weekly issue consisted of four pages, printed six columns wide. The Weekly Oregonian front page on March 19, 1859ĭryer's press was transported to Portland and it was there on December 4, 1850, that the first issue of The Weekly Oregonian found its readers. Dryer, a transplanted New Yorker who was an energetic writer with both printing equipment and previous experience in the production of a small circulation community newspaper in his native Ulster County, New York. In the fall of 1850, Chapman and Corbett traveled to San Francisco, at the time far and away the largest city on the west coast of the United States, in search of an editor interested in and capable of producing a weekly newspaper in Portland. Chapman and prominent local businessman Henry W. Chief among these pioneer community organizers seeking establishment of a Portland press were Col. One year prior to the incorporation of the tiny town of Portland, Oregon, in 1851, prospective leaders of the new community determined to establish a local newspaper-an institution which was seen as a prerequisite for urban growth. Subsequently, used by the Hillsboro Argus until at least 1911. įirst steam press used by the Oregonian, installed in 1862 (more than a year after the advent of a daily edition), and used until 1871. Although some independent dealers do deliver the newspaper outside that area, in 2006 it ceased to be available in far eastern Oregon and the southern Oregon Coast and, starting in December 2008, 'increasing newsprint and distribution costs' caused the paper to stop delivery to all areas south of Albany. The Oregonian is home-delivered throughout Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Yamhill counties in Oregon and Clark County, Washington four days a week (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday) it is also home-delivered in parts of Marion and Columbia counties. The paper's staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, most recently the award for Editorial Writing in 2014. The Oregonian received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the only gold medal annually awarded by the organization. The regular edition was published under the title The Morning Oregonian from 1861 until 1937. The Sunday edition is published under the title The Sunday Oregonian. It is one of the few newspapers with a statewide focus in the United States. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation. Dryer on December 4, 1850, and published daily since 1861. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. Daily newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

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