Sandy Post Explained

Sandy Post
Type:Weekly Newspaper
Format:Tabloid
Owners:Pamplin Media Group
Publisher:Steve Brown
Editor:Steve Brown
Circulation:4,209
Circulation Date:2022
Circulation Ref:[1]
Publishing City:Sandy, Oregon
Headquarters:1584 NE Eighth Street
Gresham, OR 97030

The Sandy Post is a weekly newspaper in Oregon serving Sandy, the Villages at Mount Hood and the surrounding areas. It is owned by Pamplin Media Group.

History

The paper was founded in 1937.[2] Walter C. Taylor Jr. bought the Sandy Post, along with the nearby Gresham Outlook and several other Oregon papers, in the early 1960s.[3] Taylor and Lee Irwin sold the newspaper in 1977 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the Albany Democrat-Herald.[4]

Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980,[5] which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.[6] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.[7] Three years later Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. acquired the Post from Lee Enterprises in 2000.[8]

In 2024, the Estacada News was absorbed into the Post.[9]

Awards

In 2019 the Post won the General Excellence award for weekly newspapers from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.[10]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022-10-19 . Pamplin Media Group: Media Kit 2022. 2023-04-18.
  2. Web site: The Sandy Post . November 25, 2014 . Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.
  3. News: Longtime Northwest publisher dies at 87 . December 21, 2006 . The Oregonian . Robin . Franzen.
  4. News: February 10, 1977 . Publisher buys 4 weeklies . Statesman Journal . 37.
  5. News: July 14, 1980 . Paper sale should be final today . Albany Democrat-Herald . 3.
  6. News: Geraldine Fabrikant . 5 January 1996 . THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal . July 8, 2013 . The New York Times.
  7. News: September 9, 1997 . Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC . The Oregonian . 45.
  8. Tomlinson, Stuart (November 12, 2000). "Millionaire buys four more news operations". The Sunday Oregonian, p. B8.
  9. Web site: Brown . Steve . 2024-08-22 . Help the Estacada News: Our newspaper is making big changes, but it's not too late to help . 2024-08-25 . Estacada News . en.
  10. Web site: 2019-07-26 . Trio of newspapers win General Excellence awards . 2023-04-19 . TheOutlookOnline.com . en.