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33-644: Owned by the Pamplin Media Group , the newspaper published its first issue on September 7, 2012. It was Pamplin's first new paper since 2001, when the company started the Portland Tribune , and was designed to complement its other local papers in the Portland metropolitan area . The Tribune competed with the now-defunct Hillsboro Argus , which was published by Advance Publications , which also publishes The Oregonian that competes with

66-669: A $ 1 million expansion on its Gresham press plant. In August 2019, the Hillsboro Tribune was merged into the Forest Grove News-Times. In January 2020, the Canby Herald and Molalla Pioneer were merged to form The Herald-Pioneer . In March that same year, about 20 newsroom employees were laid off and staff hours were reduced following a loss of revenue stemming from the COVID-19 recession in

99-631: A population of 2,512,859 at the 2020 census , an increase of over 12% since 2010. The Oregon portion of the metropolitan area is the state's largest urban center, while the Washington portion of the metropolitan area is the state's third-largest urban center after Seattle and Spokane (the Seattle Urban Area includes Tacoma and Everett ). Portions of the Portland metro area (Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties) are under

132-633: A subsidy of R.B. Pamplin Corp. The business' name was later changed to Pamplin Media Group. In November 2000, the company bought four titles from Lee Enterprises . The sale included The Gresham Outlook , the Sandy Post and two monthly publications: The East County News and Lifestyles Northwest . In February 2001, Pamplin founded the Portland Tribune , which would serve as the media group's flagship title. In February 2005, Pamplin purchased

165-699: Is a media conglomerate owned by Carpenter Media Group and operating primarily in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon . Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. founded the company in 2001 and sold it to Carpenter in 2024. As of 2019, the company owns 25 newspapers and employs 200 people. Each chain writes and edits its own stories and shares them with each other and several subscribers, including newspapers in Medford, Corvallis, and Albany. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. purchased Community Newspapers, Inc. in August 2000. The sale included eleven newspapers in

198-674: Is also a component of S&P's 20-city composite index of the value of the U.S. residential real estate market. As of July 2022, the Portland–Vancouver–Salem, OR–WA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) consists of five Metropolitan Statistical Areas, covering nine counties in Oregon and three counties in Washington: The 2022 population estimate is 3,285,275, ranked 19th largest in the United States (3,280,736 based on

231-945: Is home to a number of professional and semi-professional sports teams, including the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers , the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer , the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League and the Portland Loggers of the North American Rugby League . Other teams include the Portland Pickles and the Hillsboro Hops . Portland is also home to two NCAA Division 1 universities,

264-821: The Central Oregonian from Eagle along with its printing facility in Prineville . In 2014, Pamplin partnered with the EO Media Group , which publishes the East Oregonian and several 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

297-646: The Clackamas Review switched from weekly to monthly publication and was renamed to the Milwaukie Review . The Oregon City News switched to monthly publication as well. In December 2023, Pamplin announced its Gresham printing plant would close the following month and about two dozen employees would lose their jobs. Pamplin shifted production of its newspapers to The Columbian 's plant in Vancouver, Washington. In June 2024, Pamplin

330-688: The PCC Rock Creek campus, Tanasbourne and the Willow Creek MAX light rail station. Amtrak trains serve Portland Union Station . The Coast Starlight runs from Los Angeles to Seattle while Cascades connects Eugene to Vancouver, BC . The Empire Builder heads east to Chicago . State highways , numbered as Interstate , U.S. and Oregon Routes , in the metropolitan area include: Notable highways never built, or removed altogether, include Mount Hood Freeway , Interstate 505 , and Harbor Drive . The Portland MSA

363-623: The Portland State Vikings and the Portland Pilots . The Portland MSA also hosts a number of amateur sports, including college and high school sports. The high school rugby championships are held annually in the Portland MSA, and draw crowds of 8,000 to 10,000 supporters. The Portland metropolitan area is heavily Democratic and has voted for that party's presidential candidate in every election since 1988. This

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396-668: The Portland Tribune . John Schrag served as the first publisher, with Kevin Harden, Jim Redden, and Jennifer Anderson as the news team. Pamplin distributed the paper free at newsstands in the Hillsboro and Aloha areas, as well as via home delivery with a paid subscription. For most of the paper's history, the weekly newsprint edition was published on Fridays, but this was changed to Wednesdays in February 2018. In August 2019,

429-790: The 2020 Census). This area includes the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR–WA Metropolitan Statistical Area; Salem, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area, and other surrounding areas. Major cities in the region in addition to Portland include Beaverton , Gresham , Hillsboro in Oregon, and Vancouver in Washington. The area also includes the smaller cities of Corbett , Cornelius , Fairview , Forest Grove , Gladstone , Happy Valley , King City , Lake Oswego , Milwaukie , Oregon City , Sherwood , Tigard , Troutdale , Tualatin , West Linn , Wilsonville , Wood Village in Oregon, as well as Battle Ground , Camas , Washougal , Ridgefield , La Center and Yacolt in Washington. It includes

462-709: The Hillsboro and Aloha areas, as well as via home delivery with a subscription. The month after the Tribune 's launch, the publishers of the Argus launched the Forest Grove Leader to compete with the News-Times in neighboring Forest Grove , which was published by the same company as the Tribune . The publisher for the Tribune and News-Times stated he thought the new paper in Forest Grove

495-675: The Oregon side is generally provided by TriMet . In addition, Sandy Area Metro serves Sandy, South Clackamas Transportation District serves nearby Molalla , Canby Area Transit serves Canby and South Metro Area Regional Transit serves Wilsonville. Service in Clark County is provided by C-Tran . In Columbia County , the Columbia County Rider provides transit service on weekdays connecting St. Helens with downtown Portland and connecting Scappoose and St. Helens with certain points in urban Washington County, including

528-517: The Portland suburbs ( Beaverton Valley Times , Forest Grove News-Times , Lake Oswego Review , Tigard Times , Tualatin Times , West Linn Tidings , Our Town , Sherwood Gazette and Southwest Community Connection ). The total staff was about 130. The company also acquired the Sellwood Bee around that time in a separate sale. The papers were to be managed by Oregon Publications Corp.,

561-458: The United States . In July 2022, Pamplin announced it would no longer host a comments section on the articles published to its websites. In April 2023, Pamplin launched YourOregonNews.com, which aggregates stories from all of its newspapers. That same year in June, Pamplin agreed to sell its 39,000-square-foot Milwaukie -area building headquarters to Clackamas County for $ 11 million. In August,

594-451: The county's economic impact upon the larger metropolitan area. The cover story dealt with money the State of Oregon owed to Washington County being held-up by a potential glitch in a law. This inaugural edition was mailed to 7,000 residents, with other copies available at green newspaper boxes in the local area, primarily at businesses. Pamplin would distribute the paper free at newsstands in

627-449: The jurisdiction of Metro , a directly elected regional government which, among other things, is responsible for land-use planning in the region. As of the 2020 census , there were 2,512,859 people within the MSA. As of the 2010 census , there were 2,226,009 people, 867,794 households, and 551,008 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA were as follows: In 2010

660-623: The largest being Portland, Oregon . The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) identifies it as the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR–WA Metropolitan Statistical Area , a metropolitan statistical area used by the United States Census Bureau (USCB) and other entities. The OMB defines the area as comprising Clackamas , Columbia , Multnomah , Washington , and Yamhill Counties in Oregon, and Clark and Skamania Counties in Washington. The area had

693-813: The median income for a household in the MSA was $ 53,078 and the median income for a family was $ 64,290. The per capita income was $ 27,451. The Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), the 23rd largest in the United States , has a population of 2,226,009 (2010 Census). Of them, 1,789,580 live in Oregon (46.7% of the state's population) while the remaining 436,429 live in Washington (6.7% of state's population). It consists of Multnomah , Washington , Clackamas , Columbia and Yamhill counties in Oregon, as well as Clark and Skamania counties in Washington . The area includes Portland and

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726-643: The monthly newspaper King City Regal Courier from the Hieb family. In September 2012, the company launched the Hillsboro Tribune . On January 8, 2013, Pamplin bought five newspapers from Eagle Newspapers, Inc. in the Portland area ( Canby Herald , Wilsonville Spokesman , Molalla Pioneer , The Newberg Graphic , and the Woodburn Independent ), along with The Madras Pioneer in Central Oregon . In June 2013, it also purchased

759-467: The neighboring cities of Vancouver , Beaverton , Gresham , Hillsboro , Milwaukie , Lake Oswego , Oregon City , Fairview , Wood Village , Troutdale , Tualatin , Tigard , West Linn , Battle Ground , Camas and Washougal . Changes in house prices for the metro area are publicly tracked on a regular basis using the Case–Shiller index ; the statistic is published by Standard & Poor's and

792-656: The owner of the Argus purchased the Washington Independent and merged the papers. The Tribune was originally published biweekly, but at the time of its launch its owners were already hoping to expand to weekly publication, and this was goal achieved in March 2013. The first edition of the newspaper published on Friday, September 7, 2012, included stories covering the planned Hillsboro baseball stadium , STEM programs (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in local schools, and exploring Hillsboro and

825-585: The paper's publisher announced that the Tribune would be replaced by a Hillsboro edition of its sister paper, the News-Times of Forest Grove, and no longer be published under the Hillsboro Tribune title. The final newsprint edition under the Tribune name was that of August 7, 2019. Pamplin announced the launch of the new newspaper on August 21, 2012, in the News-Times of Forest Grove . Hillsboro last had two newspapers in 1932, at which time

858-428: The paper's publisher on February 1, 2016, succeeding John Schrag. Free subscriptions to the Tribune , delivered by mail, were introduced experimentally in early 2017. This service lasted about one year, being discontinued in early February 2018 and replaced by a return to paid subscriptions for readers wanting home delivery. The paper continued to be free at newsstands. After five years of being published on Fridays,

891-531: The unincorporated suburban communities in Oregon of Aloha , Beavercreek , Boring , Cedar Mill , Clackamas , Damascus , Dunthorpe , Garden Home , Raleigh Hills , and West Slope , as well as Hazel Dell , Minnehaha , Salmon Creek , Walnut Grove and Orchards in Washington. Portland is where Interstate 84 starts at Interstate 5 , both major highways in the Pacific Northwest . Other primary roads include Interstate 205 , an eastern bypass of

924-612: The urban core, U.S. Route 26 , which heads west and southeast, U.S. Route 30 , which follows the Oregon side of the Columbia River northwest and east, mirrored by Washington State Route 14 east from Vancouver , and Oregon Route 217 , which connects US 26 with I-5 in the south, travelling through Beaverton . Both US 26 and US 30 go to the Oregon Coast . SR 500 runs from Interstate 5 to SR 503. Padden Parkway runs from NE 78th St and east to NE 162nd Ave. Transit service on

957-578: The weekly paper's publication date was moved to Wednesdays effective February 7, 2018. Prior to this change, each weekly edition had to be readied for printing two days before publication, effectively delaying the Tribune 's print-edition reporting of Wednesday and Thursday news by a week, because the Hillsboro Tribune needed to be printed on Tuesday nights in order to fit into the printing schedule at Pamplin's press in Gresham, Oregon , where many other Pamplin newspapers are printed. The printing schedule

990-563: Was on the decline. That same year Pamplin launched the Business Tribune . In 2018, the newly-launched Salem Reporter joined the bureau, and its publisher, Les Zaitz, was assigned to lead its three reporters. The Salem Reporter left the cooperative in early 2020 and Zaitz left the operation. The Oregon Capital Bureau as of late winter 2020 includes just the EO Media Group and Pamplin. Also in 2018, Pamplin completed

1023-635: Was retaliation for the launch of the Tribune . The initial period of biweekly publication ended in March 2013, when the paper became a weekly. At the same time, original editor Kevin Harden left for a different position with Pamplin Media Group, the Tribune 's owner, and Nancy Townsley became the paper's managing editor. The Tribune won three awards in its category in 2014 from the Society of Professional Journalists ' Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest for its 2013 coverage. Nikki DeBuse became

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1056-576: Was sold to Carpenter Media Group. Six weeks later an unknown number of employees were laid off, including longtime statehouse reporter Peter Wong. That same month the Sherwood Gazette ceased publication and the Estacada News was later shuttered. Portland metropolitan area The Portland metropolitan area is a metro area with its core in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington . It has 5 principal cities,

1089-635: Was unchanged, but the move to Wednesday publication meant that paper was now distributed only hours after being printed. In August 2019, Pamplin Media announced that the Tribune would be replaced by a Hillsboro edition of its sister paper, the News-Times , of Forest Grove, and no longer be published under the Hillsboro Tribune title. The final newsprint edition under the Tribune name was that of August 7, 2019. Pamplin Media Group The Pamplin Media Group (PMG)

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