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16-675: The newspaper was established in February 1928 as the Hollywood Press by Abner M. Church as a community newspaper serving a portion of Oregon's capital city. The name of the newspaper was changed in December 1932 to Capital Press . Church sold the paper to Dewey Rand Sr. and Henry M. Hanzen in 1946. At the time the paper focused solely on covering the Hollywood neighborhood in Salem. The Rand family changed

32-567: A number of numbers to form a new company called Pioneer Newspapers, Inc. (which later became Pioneer News Group) . This enterprise would be owned and operated by James George Scripps, who was the brother of Scripps League chairman Edward W. Scripps. In May 1976, the partnership between Scripps League Newspapers and Hagadone Newspapers Co. ended after 47 years. Hagadone purchased six newspapers and eleven became fully owned by Scripps. Pulitzer Publishing Company bought Scripps League for about $ 230 million in 1996. In 2005, Lee Enterprises bought

48-471: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The News Review The News-Review is a five-day-a-week community newspaper published in Roseburg, Oregon , United States. The circulation area covers all of Douglas County including Canyonville , Glide , Myrtle Creek , Oakland , Roseburg, Sutherlin , and Winston . The Roseburg Ensign was the original predecessor of The News-Review . It

64-642: The Salem Mercury . Mosher sold the Plaindealer in 1873 to William H. Byars, who quickly converted it from a Democratic to Republican paper and published it for about 10 years. (Byars was elected State Printer in 1883, about the time he bought 50% of the Oregon Statesman , which he co-owned for about 18 months; in 1888, Byars bought Salem's Capital Journal newspaper.) The Ensign was sold to R. Tyson and renamed to The Pantagraph in 1872.  In April 1875,

80-605: The Umpqua Valley News in 1905 and merged with the Roseburg Review in 1920 to form The News-Review . Frank Jenkins bought the paper in 1930 and sold it to Scripps League Newspapers in 1960. Phil Swift of Swift Communications acquired The News-Review after the Scripps League broke up in 1975. It was at this time the paper added a Sunday edition, bringing the paper to a 6 day-a-week publication. The Saturday issue

96-544: The chain was separate from the larger E. W. Scripps Company begun by Ed's grandfather, Edward Willis Scripps . The chain eventually grew to 51 small newspapers including The Daily Herald of Provo, Utah; Napa Valley Register of Napa, Calif.; Newport Daily Express of Newport, Vt., The Hanford Sentinel of Hanford, Calif. , Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff, Ariz., and Haverhill Gazette in Massachusetts. In December 1975, Scripps League Newspapers spun off

112-468: The paper was renamed to the Douglas Independent under the ownership of John W. Kelley. In 1885 the paper was sold again to former Confederate soldier Rev. John Richard Newton Bell.  He renamed the paper to the Roseburg Review and converted it from a weekly to a daily newspaper on May 9, 1888. Bell was a Democrat and used the paper to express his political opinions. The Plaindealer became

128-587: The paper's focus in the 1960s to agricultural after noticing that many farmers bought classified ads in newspaper and thought they were an underserved market. In 1990, Dewey Rand Jr. sold the newspaper to the East Oregonian Publishing Company. Bill Duncan published a column from 1981 until his death in 2011; the News Review of Roseburg, Oregon deems it "still pertinent" and is republishing it as of 2018. This article about an Oregon newspaper

144-606: The paper. In October 2024, the newspaper switched to deliver via United States Postal Service instead of independent contractors as newspaper carriers. This allowed the newspaper to once again deliver to all of Douglas County. Scripps League Newspapers Scripps League Newspapers, Inc. was a newspaper publishing company in the United States founded by Josephine Scripps in 1921 and managed beginning in 1931 by her son Ed Scripps (1909–1997). Based in Herndon, Virginia ,

160-474: The post office. Reports on what happened vary. Thompson writes in his memoir that Thomas Gale tried to draw a pistol, but Thompson grabbed his hand and slapped him in the face. However, newspaper accounts report Thompson spat in Gale's face and slapped him. Bystanders quickly separated the two before a full-on brawl could develop and Thomas Gale stormed off. Two days later as Thompson was stepping out of his office, he

176-427: Was an old established paper conducted by two brothers, Henry and Thomas Gale. . . They sought to regain (business) by indulging in abuse of the coarsest character. . . June 11, 1871, I went to my office. ...to write my letters...on leaving the office I was joined by a young friend, Mr Virgil Conn. As we proceeded down the street towards the post office I saw the brothers standing talking on the street. . . I saw at once it

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192-412: Was confronted by the Gale brothers in downtown Roseburg on June 11, 1871. Newspapers report the encounter started with Thompson apologizing to Thomas for spitting in his face, which was not accepted. Reports conflict on what happened next. Thompson writes of the event in his memoir, writing: “... Success was not attained without gaining the enmity and bitter hatred of my would-be rivals in business. Theirs

208-460: Was discontinued in November 2020. In September 2015, the paper was purchased from Swift by Patrick Markham and his company, Lotus Media Group. Markham is the president of Brooke Communications, owner of five Roseburg radio stations. In January 2024, a ransomware attack targeting Lotus Media Group resulted in the newspaper's staff getting locked out of email and other software programs used to produce

224-437: Was founded Thomas and Henry R. Gale, two brothers from Eugene , on April 30, 1867. The first issue of the four-page weekly came out on May 28 for the price of $ 3. In September 1871 their newspaper plant was destroyed in a fire and would resume publication on January 6 the next year. The Republican Gales were bitter rivals of southern Democrat William “Bud” Thompson, the publisher and owner of The Plaindealer. Thompson's paper

240-525: Was founded in March 1870 after he had sold his Eugene City Guard in Eugene for $ 1,200. That same year Democrat La Fayette Grover was elected Governor of Oregon , ending an eight-year run of Republican governors. The new government favored The Plaindealer with lucrative public-notices. This escalated tensions between the two papers. The inciting incident occurred when one Saturday Thompson ran into Thomas Gale at

256-418: Was to be a fight. . .” It is unknown who fired the first shot. All three were wounded in the shoot-out, but none killed. Thompson, age 23 at the time, was wounded in the neck and with a bullet lodging in the back of his eye. Henry Gale was seriously wounded. Having never fully recovered from the incident, he would die in 1889.  Thompson sold his paper in February 1872 to L. F. Mosher and would go on publish

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