Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Country Media, Inc. |
Founder(s) | F. T. Shute |
Publisher | David Thornberry |
Founded | 1891 |
Headquarters | 1805 Columbia Blvd. St. Helens, OR 97051 |
Website | thechiefnews |
The Chief is a weekly newspaper in Clatskanie, Oregon, United States. It is owned by Country Media, Inc. and publishes on Thursdays.[1]
The paper was founded in 1891 by F. T. Shute.[2] In its early days it offered a bundled subscription with Better Fruit, a publication in Hood River, Oregon.[3]
E. W. Conyers, a businessman and a former state legislator, became the controlling owner in 1889. Conyers had been a lifelong Whig, and became a Republican when that party was formed.[4]
Arthur Steele purchased the paper in 1922.[2] He was named president of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association in 1953.[5] Arthur and his wife Melvina ran the paper until Melvina's death in 1972, when their son Gail took over.[6][2] As of the early 2000s the owner was Deborah Steele Hazen.[7] As of 2013 its circulation was about 2,400.[2]
In 2014, the newspaper's name was changed from The Clatskanie Chief to simply The Chief.[8] That same year the newspaper was acquired by Country Media, Inc.[9] In December 2023, the company announced The Chief will merge with The Chronicle to create a new weekly newspaper called the Columbia County Chronicle & Chief.[10]