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57-542: Laurelhurst may refer to: Laurelhurst, Portland, Oregon , a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon Laurelhurst Park , a city park in Portland, Oregon Laurelhurst Theater , a theater in Portland, Oregon Laurelhurst, Seattle , a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

114-473: A Pulitzer Prize for editorial reporting for "distinguished editorial writing...as exemplified by the editorial entitled " My Country 'Tis of Thee ". A 20-year trust under which the Oregonian was conducted expired in 1939. O. L. Price, who managed the newspaper under the trust, retired at age 61 upon its expiration. Ownership reverted to the heirs of Pittock and H. W. Scott. In 1948, the paper moved to

171-728: A Washington-state farm to a McDonald's in Singapore, ending in Indonesia during riots that led to the Fall of Suharto . The newsroom celebrated The Oregonian 's first Pulitzer in 42 years with champagne, McDonald's french fries and a brass band. The series also received the Overseas Press Club award for best business reporting from abroad, the Scripps Howard Foundation award for business reporting and

228-409: A new editor for the paper, Sandra Rowe , who relocated from The Virginian-Pilot . Business has everything—power, influence, sex, drama—and our job is to pull back the curtain: That bank merger last week? Who got screwed? Who came out on top? This is what really happened. Business news should be handled as finely crafted drama; it's got substance and great meaning. Business should be the backbone of

285-524: A new location within downtown, where its headquarters ultimately would remain for the next 66 years, on SW Broadway between Jefferson Street and Columbia Street. The new building was designed by Pietro Belluschi and again was named the Oregonian Building. The block was previously home to the William S. Ladd mansion, which had been demolished around 1925. Circa 1946, The Oregonian purchased

342-541: A racial covenant governing development of Laurelhurst mandated "...nor shall the same or any part thereof be in any manner used or occupied by Chinese, Japanese or negroes, except that persons of said races may be employed as servants by residents." A 1934 redlining map of Portland assigned the areas within current Laurelhurst boundaries with a blue grade, or "Still Desirable." Regarding the B19 tract, mapmakers noted "homogenous surroundings, improvements, and population" as among

399-482: A wooded hill. The Laurelhurst Company platted a residential development of 144 acres (0.58 km ) with the help of co-investor and landscape architect John Charles Olmsted . As the first houses were being built, the city purchased 31 acres (130,000 m ) for $ 92,000 to construct Laurelhurst Park . Advertised as a "High Class Residence Park," the Laurelhurst Company placed numerous restrictions on

456-628: Is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. West Coast , founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850, and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation. It is one of the few newspapers with a statewide focus in the United States. The Sunday edition is published under the title The Sunday Oregonian . The regular edition

513-727: The Oregonian discontinued its weekly edition, and launched KGW , Oregon's first commercial radio station. Five years later, KGW affiliated with NBC (1927). The newspaper purchased a second station, KEX , in 1933, from NBC subsidiary Northwest Broadcasting Co. In 1944, KEX was sold to Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. The Oregonian launched KGW-FM, the Northwest's first FM station, in 1946 (acclaimed by "The Oregonian" May 8, 1946), known today as KKRZ . KGW and KGW-FM were sold to King Broadcasting Co in 1953. In 1937, The Morning Oregonian shortened its name to The Oregonian . Two years later, associate editor Ronald G. Callvert received

570-685: The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for "their groundbreaking reports on the failure to curtail the growing illicit use of methamphetamines ". That same year, Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights published two reports on The Oregonian , claiming the paper under-reported Palestinian deaths in its news stories of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and excluded the Palestinian narrative in its Opinion Pages. Editorial writers Doug Bates and Rick Attig were awarded

627-467: The Whig Party —an orientation which soon brought it into conflict with The Statesman, a Democratic paper launched at Oregon City not long after The Weekly Oregonian 's debut. A loud and bitter rivalry between the competing news organs ensued. Henry Pittock became the owner in 1861 as compensation for unpaid wages, and he began publishing the paper daily, except Sundays. Pittock's goal

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684-411: The basement but not the tower. The newspaper did not move again until 1948. The 1892 building was demolished in 1950. Following the death of Harvey Scott in 1910, the paper's editor-in-chief was Edgar B. Piper , who had previously been managing editor. Piper remained editor until his death in 1928. The Oregonian's first female journalist, Louise Bryant , joined the paper around 1909. In 1922,

741-582: The magazines , and Donald oversees the newspapers. The Oregonian lost its primary "competitor" and Portland became a one-daily-newspaper city in 1982, when Advance/Newhouse shut down the Journal , citing declining advertising revenues. The Oregonian published a twenty-part series on the Rajneeshpuram , a religious community that established itself in Antelope, Oregon . William A. Hilliard

798-501: The 1950 sale to Samuel Newhouse. In 1950, Advance Publications founder S. I. "Si" Newhouse purchased the paper. At that time, the sale price of $ 5.6 million was the largest for a single newspaper. The sale was announced on December 11, 1950. In 1954, Newhouse bought 50% of Mount Hood Radio & Television Broadcasting Corp, which broadcasts KOIN -TV, Portland's first VHF television station, KOIN AM (now KUFO ), and KOIN-FM (now KXL-FM ). The Oregonian 's circulation in 1950

855-580: The 1970s, which led to the creation of Trimet MAX Light Rail in the 1980s. LNA and the community endorsed light rail being placed in the Banfield corridor, but was strongly opposed to alignment along the Burnside corridor, either a busway or light rail. A 1978 petition submitted by 34 neighbors objected "to any parking, widening, or lane changes on East Burnside Street in the Laurelhurst area now or in

912-583: The 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for their editorials on the conditions at the Oregon State Hospital . As of late 2006 and early 2007, the paper's circulation averaged 319,625 for the daily edition and 375,913 for the Sunday edition, giving The Oregonian the 22nd-largest circulation among all major newspapers in the U.S. In 2007, The Oregonian and its journalists were recognized with several awards. Sports columnist John Canzano

969-554: The Blethen award for enterprise reporting. Co-worker Tom Hallman Jr. was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, for his "unique profile of a man struggling to recover from a brain injury". Reporter Mark O'Keefe won an Overseas Press Club award for human rights reporting. The editors of Columbia Journalism Review recognized The Oregonian as number twelve on its list of "America's Best Newspapers", and

1026-533: The Ladd Estate Company sold its 462-acre (1.87 km ) Hazelfern Farm to the Laurelhurst Company for approximately $ 2 million. The name Laurelhurst was borrowed from a residential development in Seattle that Laurelhurst Company general manager Paul Murphy had recently completed. The name combined a reference to the laurel shrubbery near the Seattle development with the Old English hurst, denoting

1083-524: The Mask , on a teen with a facial deformity. In 2003, music critic David Stabler was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for "his sensitive, sometimes surprising chronicle of a teenage prodigy's struggle with a musical talent that proved to be both a gift and a problem". Michael Arrieta-Walden became public editor in 2003; when he ended his three-year term in the position, no successor

1140-439: The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service , including harsh treatment of foreign nationals and other widespread abuses, which prompted various reforms." The series was reported and written by Kim Christensen, Richard Read , Julie Sullivan-Springhetti and Brent Walth, with editorials by the editorial board. Staff writer Tom Hallman Jr. received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his series, The Boy Behind

1197-540: The best newspaper owned by the Newhouse family. In 2000, The Oregonian was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of an environmental disaster created when the New Carissa , a freighter that carried nearly 400,000 gallons of heavy fuel, ran aground February 4, 1999, north of Coos Bay, Oregon . The articles detailed "how fumbling efforts of official agencies failed to contain

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1254-451: The block for $ 100,000, which led to complaints from paper editor Leslie M. Scott because of the outrageous price. Three years later, Scott purchased a nearby block for the state at $ 300,000 while holding the office of Oregon State Treasurer . The new Oregonian building was to contain the KGW radio station and a television studio, as well as a large and opulent dining room. The contractor

1311-502: The company's loan limits at First National Bank , then turn to the Bank of America . MacNaughton then eliminated an extra elevator, the dining room, and KGW's radio and television studios. The building still cost $ 4 million, twice the original estimate. The building opened in 1948, but The Oregonian had to sell it to Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for $ 3.6 million in a leaseback arrangement. Further financial issues led to

1368-676: The editor of the Austin American-Statesman , called the paper "one of the finest newspapers in the country, easily in the top 10." On September 28, 2008, the paper distributed a DVD of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West as an advertising supplement for that day's edition, two weeks after The New York Times , The Charlotte Observer and The Miami Herald had done the same thing. The Oregonian did so despite Portland mayor Tom Potter 's personal request that publisher Fred Stickel not distribute it because

1425-593: The far-reaching damage", according to the Pulitzer jury. That same year reporters Brent Walth and Alex Pulaski were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Writing for their series on political influences in pesticide regulation. The Oregonian and news staff were acknowledged with two Pulitzer Prizes in 2001. The paper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service , for its "detailed and unflinching examination of systematic problems within

1482-404: The first Sunday Oregonian was published. The paper became known as the voice of business-oriented Republicans, as evidenced by consistent endorsement of Republican candidates for president in every federal election before 1992. The paper's offices and presses were originally housed in a two-story building at the intersection of First Street (now First Avenue) and Morrison Street, but in 1892

1539-521: The first time in its history when it supported Bill Clinton in 1992. The year 1993 was an eventful year for The Oregonian . Robert M. Landauer, then editorial page editor, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for "a bold campaign to defuse myths and prejudice promoted by an anti-homosexual constitutional amendment, which was subsequently defeated", according to the Pulitzer judges. The integrity of The Oregonian became

1596-510: The four that operated the existing equipment. Wallace Turner and many other writers and photographers refused to cross the picket lines and never returned. The two newspapers published a "joint, typo-marred paper" for six months until they had hired enough nonunion help to resume separate operations. Starting in February 1960, striking union workers published a daily newspaper, The (Portland) Reporter ; its circulation peaked at 78,000, but

1653-439: The future", calling it "a serious threat" to the neighborhood, that would lower property values, and be "a definite threat to our daily living pattern and destroy our neighborhood." The Portland-wide study noted a requirement to minimize projects "specifically in the Laurelhurst area". KXL-FM reported proximity to Laurelhurst Park was a selling point for realtors in this neighborhood until the homeless camp situation. In 1913

1710-452: 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. Chief among these pioneer community organizers seeking establishment of a Portland press were Col. W.W. Chapman and prominent local businessman Henry W. Corbett . In the fall of 1850, Chapman and Corbett traveled to San Francisco , at

1767-511: The neighborhood to increase housing availability. The Laurelhurst School was opened in 1918 and was originally named Scott School, after the first editor of The Oregonian . It was renamed to Laurelhurst School in 1925 along with the construction of the building that sits there today. The Oregonian Saturday 77,035 The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon , United States, owned by Advance Publications . It

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1824-556: The neighborhood's favorable influences and called the subdivision's origins "a well conceived promotion, honestly administered"; regarding inhabitants, no foreign-born or Black inhabitants were reported. The official neighborhood representative Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association sought to prevent homeless camps within 1,000 feet (300 m) of schools, parks and where children congregate and further proposing that those who camp in this area be fined up to $ 100 or sent to jail for up to 30 days. Its members also vocally opposed development in

1881-455: The neighborhood. Similar to the Ladd's Addition development, the sale of alcohol was prohibited. Additionally, there were to be no apartments, hotels, motels, flats, stables, or commercial buildings, and no homes were to be sold to Chinese, Japanese, or African Americans. The Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association (LNA) met as massive changes to Portland's transportation options were discussed in

1938-640: The newspaper. Sandra Rowe joined the paper as executive editor in June 1993. She formally became editor in 1994 with the retirement of William Hilliard, but Hilliard had effectively already given her control of the editor's reins in 1993 as he focused his attention on his duties as the newly elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors for 1993–94, in his final year before retirement. According to Editor & Publisher , soon after Rowe's arrival, she introduced organizational changes to

1995-483: The newsroom. Instead of having a large number of general assignment reporters, she organized them around teams, many of which often develop "subject expertise" that "reflect[s] the interests of readers, not traditional newsroom boundaries." Examples (over the years) include "Northwest Issues and Environment", "Living In the '90s"/"How We Live", "Politics and Accountability", "Health, Science, and Medicine", "Sustainability and Growth", and "Higher Education". Accompanying

2052-426: The paper and its journalists had won five Pulitzer Prizes and had been finalists a further nine times. E&P also cited "an increased focus on specialized reporting; a reorganized newsroom that promotes "team reporting" concepts over traditional beats; and regular training sessions and seminars that most staffers credit for encouraging fresh ideas and competitive approaches." Pulitzer Board member Richard Oppel ,

2109-561: The paper moved into a new nine-story building at 6th and Alder streets. The new building was, the same as its predecessor (and successor), called the Oregonian Building . It included a clock tower at one corner, and the building's overall height of 194 to 196  feet (around 59 m) made it the tallest structure in Portland, a distinction it retained until the completion of the Yeon Building in 1911. It contained about 100,000 square feet (9,300 m ) of floor space, including

2166-410: The process. Corbett sold The Oregonian back to Pittock in 1877, marking a return of Scott to the paper's editorial helm. A part-owner of the paper, Scott would remain as editor-in-chief until shortly before his death in 1910. One of the journalists who began his career on The Oregonian during this time period was James J. Montague who took over and wrote the column "Slings & Arrows" until he

2223-424: The reorganization was a more bottom-up approach to identifying stories: "instead of having an assignment-driven newspaper, you have the beat reporters coming to editors with what is going on", with the team editors responsible for deciding what stories were covered by their teams. The position of public editor was established at The Oregonian in 1993, and Robert Caldwell was appointed. Michele McLellan assumed

2280-472: The risk of reprisal from lawless elements." What was to become a long and heated strike began against both The Oregonian and The Oregon Journal began in November 1959. The strike was called by Stereotypers Local 49 over various contract issues, particularly the introduction of more automated plate-casting machinery; the new-to-American-publishing German-made equipment required one operator instead of

2337-400: The role three years later, and was delegated the authority to decide whether or not a newspaper error should result in the publication of a correction. Staff writer Richard Read won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting , for a series, The French Fry Connection . The articles illustrated the impact of the 1997 Asian financial crisis by following a case of french fries from

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2394-580: The same series that also won the George Polk Award noted above. Inara Verzemnieks was nominated for the Pulitzer for Feature Writing for "her witty and perceptive portfolio of features on an array of everyday topics", according to the Pulitzer judges. In February 2008, Editor & Publisher named editor Sandra Mims Rowe and executive editor Peter Bhatia as "Editors of the Year". The trade journal noted that since Rowe and Bhatia arrived in 1993,

2451-535: The subject of national coverage when The Washington Post broke the story of inappropriate sexual advances which led to the resignation of Oregon senator Bob Packwood four years later. This prompted some to joke, "If it matters to Oregonians, it's in the Washington Post " (a twist on the Oregonian 's slogan "If it matters to Oregonians, it's in The Oregonian ). Finally, Newhouse appointed

2508-437: 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. There the pair met Thomas J. 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 . Dryer's press

2565-517: The title Laurelhurst . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laurelhurst&oldid=762416664 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Laurelhurst, Portland, Oregon In 1909,

2622-462: The two newspapers became open shops . In 1967, Fred Stickel came to The Oregonian from New Jersey to become general manager of the paper; he became president in 1972 and publisher in 1975. As part of a larger corporate plan to exit broadcasting, The Oregonian sold KOIN-TV to newspaper owner Lee Enterprises in 1977. At the same time, KOIN-AM and -FM were sold to Gaylord Broadcasting Co. Since S. I. Newhouse died in 1979, S.I. Jr. has managed

2679-406: Was L. H. Hoffman , who was under a very profitable cost-plus contract . Aside from the "extravagance of design", construction materials were in short supply, the nation was under heavy inflation, and Belluschi's plans were never ready, leading to massive costs. The Oregonian had to borrow from banks, the first time in over 50 years. New company president E. B. MacNaughton was forced to exhaust

2736-620: Was 214,916; that of the rival Oregon Journal was 190,844. In 1957, staff writers William Lambert and Wallace Turner were awarded that year's Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting - No Edition time . Their prize cited "their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America , Western Conference" and noted that "they fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and

2793-426: Was announced that the staff of The Oregonian was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for their "skillful and tenacious coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains , telling the tragic story both in print and online." In addition, the paper's reporters were finalists in two other categories. Les Zaitz, Jeff Kosseff and Bryan Denson were finalists for the Pulitzer for National Reporting for

2850-464: Was hired away by William Randolph Hearst in 1902. In this time period Governor Sylvester Pennoyer prominently criticized the Oregonian for calling for vigilante "justice" against Chinese Americans (Pennoyer favored running people of Chinese descent out of the state by "legal" means). The West Shore criticized the Oregonian for its sensationalized coverage of the English monarchy. In 1881,

2907-467: Was named editor in 1987, and was the paper's first African-American editor. A resident of Oregon since the age of 8, Hilliard had already worked at The Oregonian for 35 years; he had been city editor starting in 1971 and executive editor since 1982. The Oregonian established an Asia bureau in Tokyo, Japan in 1989. Also in 1989, The Oregonian endorsed a Democratic candidate for president for

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2964-504: Was named. In 2004 the paper faced criticism after a headline characterized a 1970s sexual relationship between then-mayor Neil Goldschmidt and a 14-year-old girl as an " affair ", rather than statutory rape . The paper endorsed a Democrat for president for the second time in its 150-year history when it backed John Kerry for president in 2004. In 2005, staff reporters Steve Suo and Erin Hoover Barnett were finalists for

3021-610: Was published under the title The Morning Oregonian from 1861 until 1937. The Oregonian received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service , the only gold medal annually awarded by the organization. The paper's staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, most recently the award for Editorial Writing in 2014. In late 2013, home delivery has been reduced to Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday while retaining print copies daily through news stands/ newsracks . In January 2024, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday print edition were discontinued. One year prior to

3078-728: Was selected as the nation's No. 2 sports columnist in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors Awards . Three Oregonian reporters— Jeff Kosseff , Bryan Denson , and Les Zaitz —were awarded the George Polk Award for national reporting , for their series about the failure of a decades-old, multibillion-dollar, federal program established by the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act intended to help people with severe disabilities find employment. Instead it "awarded executives handsomely but left disabled workers in segregated jobs often paying less than minimum wage." On April 16, 2007, it

3135-483: Was shut down in October 1964. In 1961, Newhouse bought The Oregon Journal , Portland's afternoon daily newspaper. Production and business operations of the two newspapers were consolidated in The Oregonian 's building, while their editorial staffs remained separate. The National Labor Relations Board ruled the strike illegal in November 1963. Strikers continued to picket until April 4, 1965, at which point

3192-713: Was to focus more on news than the bully pulpit established by Dryer. He ordered a new press in December 1860 and also arranged for the news to be sent by telegraph to Redding, California , then by stagecoach to Jacksonville, Oregon , and then by pony express to Portland. From 1866 to 1872 Harvey W. Scott was the editor. Henry W. Corbett bought the paper from a cash-poor Pittock in October 1872 and placed William Lair Hill as editor. Scott, fired by Corbett for supporting Ben Holladay 's candidates, became editor of Holladay's rival Portland Daily Bulletin . The paper went out of print in 1876, Holladay having lost $ 200,000 in

3249-401: Was transported to Portland and it was there on December 4, 1850, that the first issue of The Weekly Oregonian found its readers. Each weekly issue consisted of four pages, printed six columns wide. Little attention was paid to current news events, with the bulk of the paper's content devoted to political themes and biographical commentary. The paper took a staunch political line supportive of

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