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Oregon Exchanges
For the Newspaper Folk of the State of Oregon
Vol. 9
EuGENE, OREGON, FEBRUARY, 1926
No. 4
FOURTH ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF OREGON PERIODICAL PRESS
REGON JOURNALISM held its
own, firmly, during 1925. Figures herewith presented, in the fourth annual Oregon newspaper directory compiled by OREGON EXCHANGES, indicate a total of 248 publications in the state, as against 251 in 1924 and 253 in 1923. This year’s total excludes all publications issued at educational institutions but includes Port- land’s community, or neighborhood papers, of which there are 16. Inclusion of educational publications would send the total close to 300.
Consolidations during the year have been fewer than usual, Only one con- solidation of daily papers was reported —that of the Albany Herald with the Albany Democrat, to form the present Democrat-Herald. Eight weeklies con- solidated—the News and the Argus at Warrenton, under the name of the Argus; the Boardman Mirror with the Arlington Bulletin (the Mirror is now published as a section of the Bulletin) ; the Multnomah Ledger with the Mult- nomah Community Press, under the name of the Multnomah Community Press; and the Portland Advertising with the Spotlight (now the Portland Advertising Spotlight).
No new daily paper was established in the state. Eight new weeklies were established, besides the Warrenton Argus, already mentioned as having consolidated with the News. These new papers are the Central Point American, the Chiloquin Review, the Malin Progress, the Eagle
Valley News, of Richland; the Baker County Record, at Baker; the Newport Journal, the Falls City Enterprise, the Florence Times. The Medford Mail-Tri- bune, an evening paper, established the Sunday Mail-Tribune, to succeed the Sun, a Sunday morning paper hitherto issued by the Medford daily.
The newspaper casualties of the year include the following weekly papers: Antelope Herald; the Poor Fish, Astoria; Benton County Courier, Corvallis; Cres- well News; Siuslaw News, of Florence; Jordan Valley Express; Mitchell Sen- tinel; Port Orford Tribune, and St. Helens Columbian.
The four semi-weeklies in the state have increased to five, owing to the change of the Southern Oregon Spokes- man, at Grants Pass, from a weekly to a twice-a-week. Other semi-weeklies are the Cottage Grove Sentinel, the Gresham Outlook, the Oregon City Ban- ner-Courier, and the St. Helens Mist.
Newspapers and magazines are main- tained in 140 Oregon communities—a situation practically identical with that of last year, when 134 communities sup- ported publications.
Changes of ownership were reported by 22 papers in the state during the year, as compared with 19 last year and 23 in 1923. Twenty-eight changes in editor- ship were reported.
Twenty-six Oregon papers outside of Portland ran through the year with no change in their personnel.
