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| name = The Oregonian

| logo = The Oregonian logo.svg

| image = [[File:The Oregonian front page.jpg|220px|border]]

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| type = [[Daily newspaper]]

| format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]] (since April 2, 2014)

| owners = [[Advance Publications]]<ref name=hunsberger2013jun/>

| publisher = Oregonian Media Group<ref>{{cite web |title=About Oregonian Media Group (FAQ) |date=June 20, 2013 |work=OregonLive.com |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/06/about-oregonian-media-group.html |access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Oregonian Media Group |publisher=Oregonian Media Group |url=http://www.oregonianmediagroup.com/about/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112231354/http://www.oregonianmediagroup.com/about/ |archive-date=November 12, 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=November 23, 2017 }}</ref>

| editor = Therese Bottomly<ref name="bottomly-named-editor"/>

| staff = 288/75 (full-time/part-time)<ref name="eandp"/>

| foundation = {{Start date and = age|1850}}

| headquarters = 1500 SW First Avenue<ref name="move 2014"/><br />[[Portland, Oregon]]<br />97201

| circulation = Sunday 156,184,

| ISSN = 8750-1317

''The Oregonian'' received the 2001 [[Pulitzer Prize for Public Service]], the only gold medal annually awarded by the organization.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 10, 2019|title=The Oregonian and the Pulitzer Prize|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/editors/2013/04/the_oregonian_and_the_pulitzer.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817010539/https://www.oregonlive.com/editors/2013/04/the_oregonian_and_the_pulitzer.html|archive-date=August 1617, 2021|access-date=August 16, 2021|website=OregonLive}}</ref> The paper's staff or individual writers have received seven other Pulitzer Prizes, most recently the award for [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing|Editorial Writing]] in 2014.<ref name="pulitzer2014">{{cite web| title=The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Editorial Writing |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2014-Editorial-Writing|access-date=2014-04-14 |date=April 14, 2014 }}</ref>

[[File:Harvey Whitefield Scott by Buchtel & Stolte -Harvey-W-1874 Original.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Harvey W. Scott as he appeared in the 1870s.]]

From 1866 to 1872 [[Harvey W. Scott]] was the editor.<ref>Notson, Robert C., "Making the Day Begin", Oregonian Publishing Company, 1976, p.8.</ref> [[Henry W. Corbett]] bought the paper from a cash-poor Pittock in October 1872 and placed [[William Lair Hill]] as editor.<ref name="establishment" /> Scott, fired by Corbett for supporting [[Ben Holladay]]'s candidates, became editor of Holladay's rival ''[[Portland Daily Bulletin]]''.<ref name="establishment" /> The paper went out of print in 1876, Holladay having lost $200,000 in the process.<ref name="establishment" /> Corbett sold ''The Oregonian'' back to Pittock in 1877, marking a return of Scott to the paper's editorial helm.<ref name="establishment" /> A part-owner of the paper, Scott would remain as editor-in-chief until shortly before his death in 1910.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nash|first=Lee|date=April 7, 2021|title=Harvey Scott (1838–1910)|url=https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/scott_harvey_1838_1910_/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817011414if_/https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/scott_harvey_1838_1910_/|archive-date=August 1617, 2021|access-date=August 16, 2021|website=[[The Oregon Encyclopedia]]}}</ref>

In 1950, [[Advance Publications]] founder [[Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr.|S. I. "Si" Newhouse]] purchased the paper.<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 1, 2017|title=Newhouse family|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Newhouse-family|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817012351/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Newhouse-family|archive-date=August 1617, 2021|access-date=August 16, 2021|website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]}}</ref> At that time, the sale price of $5.6 million was the largest for a single newspaper.<ref>Notson, Robert C. "Making the Day Begin" Oregonian Publishing Company, 1976, p.27.</ref> The sale was announced on December 11, 1950.<ref name="establishment"/> In 1954, Newhouse bought 50% of Mount Hood Radio & Television Broadcasting Corp, which broadcasts [[KOIN]]-TV, Portland's first VHF television station, KOIN AM (now [[KUFO (AM)|KUFO]]), and KOIN-FM (now [[KXL-FM]]). ''The Oregonian''{{'s}} circulation in 1950 was 214,916; that of the rival ''Oregon Journal'' was 190,844.<ref>{{Cite news

What was to become a long and heated strike began against both ''The Oregonian'' and ''[[The Oregon Journal]]'' began in November 1959.<ref name="nwlab030603"/> The strike was called by Stereotypers Local 49 over various contract issues, particularly the introduction of more automated plate-casting machinery;<ref name="time630308"/> the new-to-American-publishing German-made equipment required one operator instead of the four that operated the existing equipment.<ref name="nwlab030603"/> Wallace Turner and many other writers and photographers refused to cross the picket lines and never returned.<ref name="cfmc"/> The two newspapers published a "joint, typo-marred paper" for six months until they had hired enough nonunion help to resume separate operations.<ref name="time630308"/> Starting in February 1960, striking union workers published a daily newspaper, ''[[Portland Reporter|The (Portland) Reporter]]'';<ref name="orpubhist"/> its circulation peaked at 78,000, but was shut down in October 1964.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Diehl|first=Caleb|date=November 23, 2015|title=The Portland Newspaper Wars of the 1960s|work=[[Portland Monthly]]|url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2015/11/the-portland-newspaper-wars-of-the-1960s|access-date=August 16, 2021}}</ref>

In 1961, Newhouse bought ''The Oregon Journal'', Portland's afternoon daily newspaper.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Butts|first=Jeannette|date=January 29, 2017|title=Portland's Newspaper Wars {{!}} How The Oregonian became a Monopoly|url=http://publichistorypdx.org/2017/01/29/portlands-newspaper-wars-oregonian-became-monopoly/|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2021|website=Public History PDX}}</ref> Production and business operations of the two newspapers were consolidated in ''The Oregonian''{{'s}} building, while their editorial staffs remained separate.<ref>Notson, Robert C. "Making the Day Begin". Oregonian Publishing Company, 1976, p.51.</ref> The [[National Labor Relations Board]] ruled the strike illegal in November 1963.<ref name="orpubhist"/> Strikers continued to picket until April 4, 1965,<ref name="cfmc"/> at which point the two newspapers became [[open shop]]s.

As part of a larger corporate plan to exit broadcasting, ''The Oregonian'' sold KOIN-TV to newspaper owner [[Lee Enterprises]] in 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 24, 2016|title=KOIN TV|url=http://www.pdxhistory.com/html/kointv.html|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2021|website=PdxHistory.com}}</ref> At the same time, KOIN-AM and -FM were sold to Gaylord Broadcasting Co. Since S. I. Newhouse died in 1979, [[Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr.|S.I. Jr.]] has managed the [[magazine]]s, and [[Donald Newhouse|Donald]] oversees the newspapers.

| year = 1999|access-date=2007-06-15}}</ref> Finally, Newhouse appointed a new editor for the paper, [[Sandra Mims Rowe|Sandra Rowe]], who relocated from ''[[The Virginian-Pilot]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lisheron|first=Mark|date=March 2000|title=Riding High|url=https://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=554|url-status=live|access-date=August 16, 2021|website=[[American Journalism Review]]}}</ref>

In 2007, ''The Oregonian'' and its journalists were recognized with several awards. Sports columnist [[John Canzano]] was selected as the nation's No. 2 sports columnist in the annual [[Associated Press Sports Editors Awards]]. Three ''Oregonian'' reporters—[[Jeff Kosseff]], [[Bryan Denson]], and [[Les Zaitz]]—were awarded the [[George Polk Awards|George Polk Award for national reporting]], for their series about the failure of a decades-old, multibillion-dollar, federal program established by the [[Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act]] intended to help people with severe disabilities find employment. Instead it "awarded executives handsomely but left disabled workers in segregated jobs often paying less than minimum wage."<ref>{{cite news | title = Polk Awards Announced—Honor 8 Papers From New York To Oregon | magazine = [[Editor & Publisher]] | date = February 2007 | url = http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Departments/Top%20Stories/polk-awards-announced-honor-8-papers-from-new-york-to-oregon-37750-.aspx | access-date = 2007-02-20 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110501050241/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Departments/Top%20Stories/polk-awards-announced-honor-8-papers-from-new-york-to-oregon-37750-.aspx | archive-date = May 1, 2011 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Long Island University Announces Winners of 2006 George Polk Awards | publisher = [[Long Island University]] | year= = 2007 | url = http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/press/2006.html | access-date = 2007-02-20 | archive-date = February 22, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070222185602/http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/press/2006.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

}}</ref> Two new companies would be formed: the Oregonian Media Group, which will focus on providing content on its online news site, [[OregonLive.com]] though it would continue to publish a daily print edition of the paper; and Advance Central Services Oregon, which would provide production, packaging, and distribution support for the new company. Ownership remained with [[Advance Publications]]. Though the paper would be printed seven days a week, home delivery wouldhas bebeen cutreduced to four days a week: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.<ref name=hunsberger2013jun/><ref name=":0" /> These changes were put into effect, as scheduled, on October 1.<ref name=bhatia-2013oct1>{{cite news|last=Bhatia|first=Peter|title=Oregonian Media Group debuts with changes to The Oregonian, OregonLive.com|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=October 1, 2013|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian-media-group/index.ssf/2013/10/oregonian_media_group_debuts_w.html|access-date=October 6, 2013}}</ref> The paper also announced that "significant" layoffs were expected.<ref name=hunsberger2013jun/> In addition, Anderson announced that the new company would likely move from its downtown Portland building.<ref name=manning>{{cite news

In June 2015, Advance signed a contract with Signature Graphics to take over printing and distribution of the paper from Advance Central Services Oregon, and announced that it was considering selling its longtime printing plant located near [[Providence Park]].<ref name="will outsource">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Advance Central Services Oregon will outsource printing of The Oregonian and will explore sale of existing print facility |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2015/06/advance_central_services_orego.html |access-date=October 13, 2019 |work=The Oregonian/OregonLive |date=June 30, 2015}}</ref><ref name="WW-2015jul7">{{cite news |last=Mesh |first=Aaron |title=Shop the Presses: The Oregonian is selling its printing press—and advancing deeper into the web. |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2015/06/advance_central_services_orego.html |access-date=October 13, 2019 |work=Willamette Week |date=July 7, 2015<!--(print edition of July 8, p. 11)--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013082052/https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-25048-shop-the-presses.html |archive-date=October 13, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Layoffs of printing-press workers were due to be implemented in August.<ref name="WW-2015jul7"/> In February 2017, the Oregonian Publishing Company sold the {{convert|41,000|ft2|m2|adj=on}} building for $20&nbsp;million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=20000000|start_year=2017}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to a development partnership which said it planned to tear it down and build a 23-story apartment building on the site,<ref name="press site sold">{{cite news |last=Njus |first=Elliot |title=Former Oregonian press site sold for $20 million |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2017/02/former_oregonian_press_site_so.html |access-date=October 13, 2019 |work=The Oregonian/OregonLive |date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> now known as the Press Blocks.<ref name="close press blocks deal">{{cite news |last=Bell |first=Jon |title=Developers close $20M 'Press Blocks' deal, look to begin demo by year's end |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/02/02/developers-close-20m-press-blocks-deal-look-to.html |access-date=October 13, 2019 |work=Portland Business Journal |date=February 2, 2017}}</ref> Demolition of the former printing complex began in fall 2018.<ref name="oreg-2018oct5">{{cite news |last=Njus |first=Elliot |title=Seattle developer to start construction on 'Press Blocks' office building |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/10/48d08868919607/seattle-developer-to-start-con.html |access-date=October 13, 2019 |work=The Oregonian/OregonLive |date=October 5, 2018<!--(print edition of October 10, p. B14)-->}}</ref><ref name="DJC-2018nov6">{{cite news |last=Tenney |first=Sam |title=Redevelopment starts with demolition |url=http://djcoregon.com/news/2018/11/06/redevelopment-starts-with-demolition/ |access-date=October 13, 2019 |work=[[Daily Journal of Commerce]] |date=November 6, 2018}}</ref>

Editor Mark Katches left the company in August 2018, to become editor of the ''[[Tampa Bay Times]]'', owned by the non-profit Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Therese Bottomly, who had worked ''The Oregonian'' since 1983, was named editor and vice president of content in September 2018.<ref name="bottomly-named-editor">{{cite news |last=Manning|first=Jeff |title=Therese Bottomly named editor |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2018/09/therese_bottomly_named_editor.html |access-date=2018-10-18 |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=September 8, 2018 |orig-year=online date September 7 |page=A2}}</ref><ref name="WW-2018sep7">{{cite news |last=Jaquiss |first=Nigel |author-link=Nigel Jaquiss |title=The Oregonian Names Therese Bottomly Its Top Editor |newspaper=Willamette Week |date=September 7, 2018 |url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/09/07/the-oregonian-names-therese-bottomly-its-top-editor/ |access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref>

Effective January 1, 2024, the printed version of ''The Oregonian'' will be offered only on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. It will continue as apublishing daily news online.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Manning |first=Jeff |date=2023-08-01 |title=The Oregonian to cut print days to 4 a week |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2023/08/the-oregonian-to-cut-print-days-to-4-a-week.html |access-date=2023-08-02 |website=oregonlive |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=O'Neill |first=Natalie |date=2023-08-01 |title=The Oregonian Will Reduce Print Editions to Four Days a Week |url=https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2023/08/01/the-oregonian-will-cease-printing-three-of-its-seven-editions/ |access-date=2023-08-02 |websitenewspaper=[[Willamette Week]] |language=en}}</ref>

===== Comments section elimination =====

On January 2, 2020, ''The Oregonian'' eliminated the comments section of Oregonlive.com. The paper said it was following the trend of other papers in the past decade and said most readers don't utilize the comments feature. The paper also said uncivil comments were taking up too many resources to moderate.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-29|title=Oregonian newspaper to end comments section on website|url=https://apnews.com/article/44aa0eebbd7f425d1a7c5fccf3beed00|access-date=2020-09-30|website=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>

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| format = [[Web portal]]

| foundation = 1997

| owners = [[Advance Publications]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Hunsberger |first=Brent |title=The Oregonian will go to four-day home delivery |work=OregonLive.com |date=June 20, 2013 |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/06/the_oregonian_will_go_to_four-.html |access-date=September 7, 2019}}</ref>

| publisher = Oregonian Media Group<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Mission |publisher=Oregonian Media Group |url=http://www.oregonianmediagroup.com/about/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112231354/http://www.oregonianmediagroup.com/about/ |archive-date=November 12, 2017 |access-date=September 7, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Oregonian Media Group (FAQ) |date=June 20, 2013 |work=OregonLive.com |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/06/about-oregonian-media-group.html |access-date=September 7, 2019}}</ref>

| editor = Therese Bottomly (Editor and vice president of content)<ref name="bottomly-named-editor" />

| staff = 9/26 (editorial/marketing){{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

| headquarters = 921 SW Washington<br />[[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]] 97205<br />United States

| website = {{URL|https://www.oregonlive.com|OregonLive.com}}