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Ashland Daily Tidings
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Rosebud Media
Founded1876
Ceased publication2021
Circulation<2,000 (Monday through Saturday)

The Ashland Daily Tidings was a morning newspaper serving the city of Ashland, Oregon, United States. It was owned by Rosebud Media, like its sister publication, the Medford-based Mail Tribune, which has continued to publish.

The Daily Tidings was distributed Monday through Saturday mornings (Saturday afternoon publication was changed under Editor Andrew Scot Bolsinger in 2004; Circulation Director Ed Rose changed the Daily Tidings from afternoon production to morning in December, 2010). It was one of Oregon's smallest-circulation dailies, along with the Baker City Herald in the state's northeast region.

On July 15, 2021, the owner of the Tidings announced he would permanently close the newspaper on Aug. 1, 2021.

History

Edd Ellsworth Rountree was the owner and publisher from 1960 to 1970, and was known for his left-leaning column "Friday Fish Fry."[1]

The Daily Tidings was owned, along with the Medford Mail Tribune and a number of other newspapers around the United States, by the Local Media Group, a subsidiary of international company News Corp.[2] On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers were to be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former Wall Street Journal editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company.[3] GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition.[4]

In 2017, the Tidings and the Mail Tribune were sold by GateHouse to Rosebud Media.[5]

Awards

The Tidings was one of three daily newspapers to win the Charles Sprague Award of General Excellence from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association (ONPA) in 1981.[6] In 2006 the Daily Tidings was awarded the "General Excellence" prize by the ONPA. In 2015, it won five awards including a first place for best educational coverage, from the ONPA.[7]

Front page of the newspaper on September 2, 1919

References

  1. ^ "Retired Ashland Publisher Dies at 67". The Oregonian. June 11, 1985.
  2. ^ Rafter, Michelle V. (January 31, 2009). "Good news for small papers". Oregon Business.
  3. ^ Frank, Christine (September 4, 2013). "News Corp. sells 33 papers to New York investors". New York Business Journal. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  4. ^ Pearson, Sophia; Kary, Tiffany (September 27, 2013). "GateHouse Files for Bankruptcy as Part of Fortress Plan". Bloomberg. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  5. ^ Stiles, Greg (January 31, 2017). "Updated: Mail Tribune and Daily Tidings sold to Rosebud Media". Mail Tribune. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  6. ^ Colby, Richard (July 11, 1981). "Publishers Honor Frohnmayer". The Oregonian.
  7. ^ Daily Tidings earns 5 awards from publishers' group, Mail Tribune, July 24, 2016. Retrieved May 24,2022.


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