Pioneer News Group was an American media company . The company was founded in 1974 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington . It was owned by the Scripps family, who had also started the E. W. Scripps Company . The Pioneer News Groups had printing facilities in Idaho , Montana , Utah , Oregon , and Washington . In October 2017, Pioneer announced that it was selling its newspaper business to the Adams Publishing Group .
5-719: In December 1975, Scripps League Newspapers spun off a number of numbers to form a new company called Pioneer Newspapers, Inc. The enterprise would be owned and operated by James George Scripps, who was the brother of Scripps League chairman Edward W. Scripps and grandson of E. W. Scripps . The newspapers included were: Grass Valley Union , Caldwell News-Tribune, The Idaho Press , Idaho State Journal , The Bemidji Pioneer , Bozeman Daily Chronicle , Havre Daily News , Herald and News , Canonsburg Notes, Monongahela Herald, Waynesburg Democrat Messenger, The Herald Journal , Skagit Valley Herald . Other newspaper companies affiliated with Pioneer in 1976 were Kalb Newspapers,
10-1007: A United States publishing company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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 , 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
15-567: 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
20-930: The Standard Journal and Fremont County Herald-Chonicle in 2000. Pioneer launched the Belgrade News in 2004. The company sold the Havre Daily News and purchased the Teton Valley News in 2005. Pioneer purchased the Preston Citizen , the Tremonton Leader and News-Examiner in 2007. In 2013, the company was renamed to Pioneer News Group. In 2015, the company purchased the Stanwood Camano News . In October 2017, Pioneer sold its 22 newspapers to Adams Publishing Group . This article about
25-668: The Scripps-Ifft group, the Scripps-Wood group and Swift Newspapers. In 1983, Pioneer Newspapers merged with Swift Newspapers, owned by Philip E, Swift, to form Swift-Pioneer Newspapers, Inc. That same year Nicholas Ifft sold Scripps-Ifft Newspapers, Inc. to James George Scripps. The company's owner James George Scripps died in December 1986. In the years that followed Pioneer acquired the Daily Record in 1996, Lone Peak Lookout in 1998 and
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