The East Oregonian ( EO ) is a daily newspaper published in Pendleton , Oregon , United States and covering Umatilla and Morrow counties.
15-545: The newspaper is owned by EO Media Group , which prior to January 2013 was named the East Oregonian Publishing Company. The paper is published Tuesday through Saturday mornings. As of 2013, its circulation was 7,014; in 2020 it was 6,889. The paper maintains a bureau in Hermiston . The EO is the newspaper of record for Umatilla County. The newspaper was established in 1875 by M.P. Bull, as
30-577: A print day. Five newspapers suspended print entirely and went online-only: The La Grande Observer , Blue Mountain Eagle , Hermiston Herald , Wallowa County Chieftain and the Baker City Herald. In October 2024, EO Media Group was sold to Carpenter Media Group. The group won a top regional award for its "Fate of Our Forests" series from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2012, in
45-525: A real estate development firm. Its primary revenue source is from reader subscriptions, which cost $ 10/month. The site aims to distinguish itself from its competitors with the quality and credibility of its reporting. According to local news scholar Damian Radcliffe, the Reporter's freedom from the legacy costs that a traditional newspaper like the Statesman Journal has allowed it to enter
60-850: A regional group including papers under 25,000 circulation from Montana to Alaska. The same series, which ran in 2011, had previously won the Dolly Connelly Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting from the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association. Salem Reporter Salem Reporter is a digital news service based in Salem, Oregon . It was launched in September 2018 by longtime investigative journalist Les Zaitz, with investment from businessman Larry Tokarski, president of
75-875: A weekly. In 1882, C. S. "Sam" Jackson purchased the EO . Within a year it had become a semiweekly, and in 1888, the paper was published every day except Sunday. Jackson went on to become the publisher of the Oregon Journal in Portland . In June 2024, EO Media Group announced the East Oregonian will go from two to one print edition day each week. Moving forward, EO will serve as a regional newspaper for all of northeastern Oregon and publish news from five newspaper that went online-only: The La Grande Observer , Blue Mountain Eagle , Hermiston Herald , Wallowa County Chieftain and Baker City Herald . The EO
90-724: The Blue Mountain Eagle in 1979, the Chinook Observer in 1988, the Capital Press in 1990, Wallowa County Chieftain in 2000, the North Coast Citizen in 2007 and The Hermiston Herald in 2008. The North Coast Citizen was sold to Country Media, Inc. in 2011. A year later EO Media purchased Oregon Coast TODAY in Lincoln City . The following year Country Media sold
105-697: The East Oregonian and The Daily Astorian ) independently. The connection between the East Oregonian and The Daily Astorian dates to 1909, when several East Oregonian staffers bought the Astoria Budget , which was later merged with the Astorian . In 1973, the father and son (J. W. Forrester, Jr. and Michael A. Forrester) who had been publishing the East Oregonian and the Daily Astorian switched positions. The company acquired
120-924: The Seaside Signal , Cannon Beach Gazette and Coast River Business Journal to EO Media Group in 2013. In 2014, the EO Media Group partnered with the Pamplin Media Group , which publishes the Portland Tribune and 24 other weekly and monthly publications in Oregon, to form the Oregon Capital Bureau and publish the Oregon Capital Insider newsletter. The partnership came as the number of reporters assigned to state capital bureaus nationwide
135-891: The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin , who will print all of the company's papers moving forward. That same year Oregon Coast TODAY was sold to Patrick Alexander, who worked as the publication's editor and publisher. In 2023, EO Media Group founded the Rogue Valley Times following the closure of the Mail Tribune . That same year the company sold its Pendleton office building which it had owned since 1956. In June 2024, EO Media Group announced cutbacks to staff and print frequency. Twenty-eight employees, or 15% of total staff, were laid off and another 19 will have their hours reduced. The Bend Bulletin , East Oregonian and The Rogue Valley Times each eliminated
150-686: The East Oregonian Publishing Company , is a newspaper publishing company based in the U.S. state of Oregon . It publishes 17 newspapers in the state and in southwestern Washington . The company, which has been family-owned for four generations, was previously known as the East Oregonian Publishing Company. It changed its name to EO Media Group in January 2013. It is owned by the Aldrich and Forrester families, members of which previously owned several newspapers (including
165-482: The bureau's team of three reporters. Zaitz, a renowned investigative reporter for The Oregonian who, upon his retirement, bought and revitalized the Malheur Enterprise several years prior, saying he was motivated by a desire to create "a new financial paradigm for the newspaper that can be replicated and scaled up." In speeches in 2018, Zaitz emphasized restoring trust in media as a top priority for
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#1732772861286180-526: The field with unusual agility. Shortly after its launch, the Salem Reporter joined the Pamplin Media Group and the EO Media Group in a partnership named the Oregon Capital Bureau . The bureau was formed by the original partners 2014, to provide its constituent newspapers with reporting on state government; it produces a newsletter called the Oregon Capital Insider . Zaitz leads
195-612: Was on the decline. In 2018, the newly-launched Salem Reporter joined the bureau, and its publisher, Les Zaitz, was assigned to lead its three reporters. As of spring 2020, the Salem Reporter and Zaitz are no longer part of the Oregon Capital Bureau. The Aldrich-Forrester-Bedford-Brown family, which owns the EO Media Group, was covered in the 2018 book Grit and Ink: An Oregon Family's Adventures in Newspapering, 1908–2018 by William F. Willingham. The book
210-853: Was published by the EO Media Group; but according to the author, it isn't an "authorized biography," and he had "wide open" ground rules. The book was to be distributed by the Oregon State University Press. In May 2019, EO Media Group sold the Cannon Beach Gazette to Country Media . In July that same year, EO Media Group acquired the Baker City Herald , The Observer (La Grande) , The Bulletin (Bend) and The Redmond Spokesman from Western Communications . In 2020, EO Media Group closed its press in Pendleton installed in 2013 and sold it to
225-651: Was the first-place winner of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association General Excellence award in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. Gordon Macnab: A Century of News and People in the East Oregonian 1875-1975 , East Oregonian Publishing Co., Pendleton, Oregon, 1975. This article about an Oregon newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . EO Media Group The EO Media Group , formerly known as
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