| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Country Media, Inc. |
| Publisher | David Thornberry |
| Editor | Jeremy Ruark |
| Founded | 1927 |
| Headquarters | Lincoln, Oregon, U.S |
| Circulation | 3,578[1] |
| Website | thenewsguard |
The Lincoln City News Guard is a newspaper serving Lincoln City and its surrounding community in the U.S. state of Oregon.
History[edit]
Its predecessor was founded in 1927 (or 1931[2] or 1932[3]), and is published weekly on Wednesdays.[4] Prior to the 1965 incorporation of Lincoln City, the paper was known as the North Lincoln News Guard, and was published in the communities of Delake[5] and Nelscott.[6] The News Guard was formed after a merger in 1939 of the Coast Guard and the Beach Resort News.[7]
The Pioneer Newspaper Group of Idaho purchased the News Guard in 1980, along with three other coastal newspapers (the Tillamook Headlight-Herald, the Seaside Signal, and Ilwaco, Washington's Pacific Tribune).[8]
The News Guard has won a number of statewide awards, including a general excellence award for smaller weekly papers in 1969,[9] for photography and special issues in 1980,[10] and more recently for best feature story.[11][12]
In 2012 Samantha Swindler, then the publisher of the News Guard as well as the nearby Tillamook Headlight, was featured on CBS "60 Minutes" for her previous success in Corbin, Kentucky in bringing down a corrupt sheriff.[13][14]
In January 2024, Country Media merged Lincoln City News Guard and the Newport News-Times into a single newspaper named after the Lincoln County Leader, which had published for 94 years from 1893 to 1987. [15] The plan was first announced in the previous October.[16]
References[edit]
- ^ "Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association". www.orenews.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the. "Coast guard". Retrieved 2021-01-05.
- ^ Turnbull, George Stanley (1939). . . Binfords and Mort.
- ^ Lincoln City News Guard, Mondo Times.
- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the. "North Lincoln news guard". Retrieved 2021-01-05.
- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the. "Lincoln coast guard". Retrieved 2021-01-05.
- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the. "Beach resort news". Retrieved 2021-01-05.
- ^ "Weekly Newspapers Change Hands". The Oregonian. October 2, 1980.
- ^ "Oregonian Stories Win Two Newspaper Awards". The Sunday Oregonian. June 22, 1969.
- ^ "Eugene Paper Wins 8: Oregon Publications Cited". The Sunday Oregonian. July 13, 1980.
- ^ "Writer coming to sign books". The Daily Astorian. May 24, 2007.
- ^ "The Oregonian receives ONPA excellence award". The Oregonian. July 20, 1985.
- ^ "60 Minutes piece features Headlight Herald/News Guard publisher". The Daily Astorian. May 4, 2012.
- ^ Moos, Julie (May 7, 2012). "How 2 twentysomething journalists brought down a corrupt Kentucky sheriff". Poynter.
- ^ Smith, Quinton (2024-01-11). "Newspapers in Newport, Lincoln City combine to form Lincoln County Leader". YachatsNews.com. Archived from the original on 2024-01-16. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
- ^ Thornberry, David (2023-10-09). "Editorial: Lincoln County Leader returns". The News Guard. Archived from the original on 2024-01-16. Retrieved 2024-01-16.