The Oregon Capital Bureau is a joint effort of two family-owned news publishers to improve news coverage of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon .
11-688: The bureau was launched in 2014 by the Pamplin Media Group , which owns 25 newspapers in the Portland Metropolitan Area and Central Oregon , and the EO Media Group , which owns 15 newspapers and two magazines in Eastern and Central Oregon and on the Oregon Coast . In 2015, the bureau launched the newsletter Oregon Capital Insider . One of the leading advocates of establishing the bureau
22-619: A loss of revenue stemming from the COVID-19 recession in 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,
33-626: Is now drawn from Pamplin Media Group and EO Media Group, with additional contributions by veteran Salem journalist Dick Hughes. Pamplin Media Group The Pamplin Media Group (PMG) 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,
44-670: The Portland Tribune , which would serve as the media group's flagship title. In February 2005, Pamplin purchased 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
55-806: The Woodburn Independent ), along with The Madras Pioneer in Central Oregon . In June 2013, it also purchased 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
66-625: 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
77-546: The Oregon Capital Insider newsletter. The partnership came as the number of reporters assigned to state capital bureaus nationwide 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
88-735: 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 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
99-673: The operation. The Oregon Capital Bureau as of late winter 2020 includes just the EO Media Group and Pamplin. Also in 2018, Pamplin completed 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
110-586: Was Steve Forrester, president of the EO Media Group, and then publisher of the Daily Astorian . The Salem Reporter was an original partner in the bureau. Former Oregonian investigative reporter Les Zaitz directed the bureau from September 2018 to early 2020. In spring 2020, the Oregon Capital Bureau reorganized, with the Salem Reporter leaving the operation, along with Zaitz. The content
121-659: 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., 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
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