Oregon loses yet another newspaper

The year is less than a month old, and Oregon has already lost three newspapers.The latest to shut down is the Lebanon Express, a weekly that's ser...

January 29, 2023
6:24 AM

The year is less than a month old, and Oregon has already lost three newspapers.The latest to shut down is the Lebanon Express, a weekly that's served its namesake Linn County community for nearly 136 years. The final edition was published Jan. 18.It comes less than a week after two southern Oregon papers, the Medford Mail-Tribune and the Rogue Valley Messenger, announced their closures.The owner of the Lebanon Express is Iowa-based Lee Enterprises, which did not respond to a request for comment about why it shut down the paper.

Chris LehmanKLCC