Jump to content

Baker City Herald

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baker City Herald
TypeTri-weekly newspaper
Owner(s)EO Media Group
EditorJayson Jacoby
FoundedMay 11, 1870
Headquarters1915 1st Street, Baker City, Oregon 97814 United States
Circulation1,948 Print
329 Digital (as of 2023)[1]
Websitebakercityherald.com

The Baker City Herald is a tri-weekly paper published in Baker City, Oregon, United States, since 1870.[2] It is published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and is owned by EO Media Group.[2]

History

[edit]

The Herald was established as the Bedrock-Democrat on May 11, 1870.[3] Its founders were Milton H. Abbott, who had previously launched the Oregon Herald, and Lewis Linn McArthur.[4] In 1887 Ira Bowen and George Small purchased the newspaper for $2500. Bowen and Small published the Daily Democrat and ran the Bedrock Democrat as a weekly edition.[5]

In 1929, the Bedrock-Democrat merged with the city's other daily paper, the Morning Herald, to become the Baker Democrat-Herald.[3] When the city's name was changed from Baker back to Baker City in 1990, the paper was renamed to Baker City Herald.[3] The Herald went from being published five days a week to three on June 1, 2009.[3]

In 2019, EO Media Group acquired the Baker City Herald from Western Communications.[6][7] In June 2024, EO Media Group announced the Baker City Herald will cease print publication and go online-only. All print subscribers will instead receive the East Oregonian, published weekly and including news from Baker City Herald's website.[8][9]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "EO Media Group Publishing Map". EO Media Group LLC. 2023-03-06. Archived from the original on April 19, 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  2. ^ a b "Baker City Herald". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved 2014-11-25.
  3. ^ a b c d "About the Baker City Herald". Baker City Herald. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  4. ^ Jacoby, Jayson (May 12, 2020). "Baker City Herald celebrates 150 years of bringing news to Baker County residents: Part 1". The Baker City Herald.
  5. ^ Hines, Rev. H.K. (1893). An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon (First ed.). Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co. p. 354. ISBN 9780665152344.
  6. ^ Wright, Phil (July 29, 2019). "Observer's company buys Bend Bulletin". Chinook Observer. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  7. ^ Wright, Phil (July 29, 2019). "EO Media Group buys Bend Bulletin". East Oregonian.
  8. ^ "EO Media Group announces changes to newspaper operations". East Oregonian. 2024-06-03. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  9. ^ Buckley, Kyra (June 3, 2024). "Company that runs Bulletin, other Northwest newspapers to slash workforce and scale back print distribution". OPB. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
[edit]


Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This article about an Oregon newspaper is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baker_City_Herald&oldid=1249709469"