Lebanon Express
 Front page on March 5, 1887 | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Lee Enterprises |
| Publisher | Jeff Precourt[1] |
| Editor | Les Gehrett[2] |
| Founded | March 5, 1887 |
| Ceased publication | January 18, 2023 |
| Headquarters |
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| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 2,149 (as of 2014)[1] |
| ISSN | 2472-6648 |
| OCLCnumber | 38041261 |
| Website | lebanon-express |
TheLebanon Expresswas a weeklynewspaperinLebanon,Oregon.It was owned byLee Enterprises.[1]The paper ceased publication in January 2023.[3]
History
[edit]TheLebanon Expresswas first published by Jacob H. Stine on March 5, 1887. Stine left the paper after a year. In 1987, Hugh Yandel Kirkpatrick merged theLebanon Expresswith theLebanon Advanceto formLebanon Express-Advance.The name was changed back to theLebanon Expressin 1912.[4]
Robert Hayden owned theLebanon Expressfor 34 years until selling it in 1970 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co.[5]Capital Citiespurchased the company in 1980,[6]which itself was acquired by theThe Walt Disney Companyin 1995.[7]Disney sold its Oregon newspapers toLee Enterprisesin 1997.[8]
The paper published its final edition on Jan. 18, 2023 and rolled coverage of the area into TheAlbany Democrat-Herald.[9][3]
References
[edit]- ^abc"Lebanon Express".Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.Retrieved2014-11-27.
- ^"Contact Staff".Lebanon Express.Retrieved26 October2020.
- ^abLehman, Chris M. (2023-01-20)."Oregon loses yet another newspaper".KLCC.Retrieved2023-01-20.
- ^"About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898".Chronicling America.Library of Congress.Retrieved26 October2020.
- ^"Albany Company Acquires Lebanon, Ashland Papers".The Capital Journal.March 4, 1970. p. 1.
- ^"Paper sale should be final today".Albany Democrat-Herald.July 14, 1980. p. 3.
- ^Geraldine Fabrikant (5 January 1996)."THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal".The New York Times.RetrievedJuly 8,2013.
- ^"Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC".The Oregonian.September 9, 1997. p. 45.
- ^"Page A1".Lebanon Express.Retrieved2023-01-19.
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