Lebanon Express

Lebanon Express
	Front page on March 5, 1887
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Lee Enterprises
Publisher	Jeff Precourt
Editor	Les Gehrett
Founded	March 5, 1887; 138 years ago
Ceased publication	January 18, 2023
Headquarters	90 East Grant Street; Lebanon, Oregon 97355;
Country	United States
Circulation	2,149 (as of 2014)
ISSN	2472-6648
OCLC number	38041261
Website	lebanon-express.com
	Media of the United States; List of newspapers;

The Lebanon Express was a weekly newspaper in Lebanon, Oregon. It was owned by Lee Enterprises.^[1] The paper ceased publication in January 2023.^[3]

History

The Lebanon Express was first published by Jacob H. Stine on March 5, 1887. Stine left the paper after a year. In 1987, Hugh Yandel Kirkpatrick merged the Lebanon Express with the Lebanon Advance to form Lebanon Express-Advance. The name was changed back to the Lebanon Express in 1912.^[4]

Robert Hayden owned the Lebanon Express for 34 years until selling it in 1970 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co.^[5] Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980,^[6] which itself was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1995.^[7] Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.^[8]

The paper published its final edition on Jan. 18, 2023 and rolled coverage of the area into The Albany Democrat-Herald.^[9]^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Lebanon Express". Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
^ "Contact Staff". Lebanon Express. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Lehman, Chris M. (January 20, 2023). "Oregon loses yet another newspaper". KLCC. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
^ "About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
^ "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 (January 5, 1996). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Disney and ABC Shareholders Solidly Approve Merger Deal". The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
^ "Lee Enterprises closes purchase of Oregon newspapers from ABC". The Oregonian. September 9, 1997. p. 45.
^ "Page A1". Lebanon Express. Retrieved January 19, 2023.