Newport Miner
{{Short description|Mid-week newspaper from Newport, Washington, USA}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Newport Miner
| type = Weekly newspaper
| owners = J. Louis Mullen
Michelle Nedved
| founder = M. P. Stephans
| foundation = 1897 (as the Newport Pilot)
| language = English
| circulation = 1,700
| circulation_date = 2022
| ISSN = 0892-6239
| oclc = 15248685
| website = {{URL|pendoreillerivervalley.com}}
}}
The Newport Miner is a weekly newspaper published Wednesdays in Newport, Washington, United States. It covers Newport and the surrounding communities of the Pend Oreille River valley and Pend Oreille County in the U.S. state of Washington and Bonner County in the state of Idaho.{{cite book |last1=Bagwell |first1=Steve |last2=Stapilus |first2=Randy |year=2013 |title=New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be |publisher=Ridenbaugh Press |location=Carlton, Oregon |isbn=978-0-945648-10-9 |oclc=861618089 |page=238}}
History
In 1897, M. P. Stephans founded the Newport Pilot.{{Cite news |date=August 24, 1897 |title=Hillyard. |work=The Spokesman-Review |pages=3}} Stephans was previously the editor of the Hillyard Headlight. He sold the Pilot in April 1899{{Cite news |date=April 19, 1899 |title=Stephens Quits The Pilot. |work=Spokane Chronicle |pages=7}} and then purchased a new printing outfit to set up Juliaetta, Idaho.{{Cite news |date=April 28, 1899 |title=Will Start A New Paper |work=Spokane Chronicle |pages=3}} The new publisher was the Pilot Publishing Co., who changed the paper's name to the Newport Minor in May 1889.{{Cite news |date=May 13, 1899 |title=Kootenai County Journalism. |work=Bonners Ferry Herald |pages=1}} At other points the paper was called the Priest River Pilot and Newport News.{{Cite news |date=September 2, 1899 |title=Notice |work=The Coeur d'Alene Press |pages=2}} The Miner suspended publication in September 1899.{{Cite news |date=September 20, 1899 |title='Round About Ritzville {{!}} Happenings in City and County |work=Washington State Journal |location=Ritzville, Washingtion |pages=3}} Brothers Warren E. and Charles M. Talmadge took over the printing plant in Newport and restarted the Newport Miner.{{Cite news |date=January 6, 1940 |title=Half-Century R.R. Job Ends {{!}} W. E. Talmadge, Agent for Spokane International, Retires From Post |work=The Spokesman-Review |pages=2}}
Fred L. Wolf acquired the paper from the Talmadge family in 1907{{Cite news |date=September 22, 1907 |title=Newspaper Changes Hands. |work=The Spokesman-Review |pages=6}} and ran it for 35 years.{{Cite news |date=December 15, 1945 |title=Wolf Sells Newport Miner to F. S. Frost of Idaho |work=The Colville Examiner |pages=1}} Because of his efforts, the Miner had an outsized influence in the early 20th century. Wolf was elected to the Washington State Legislature with a strong majority in 1918.{{Cite web |title=The Newport Miner |url=https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=NEWPMIN |access-date=2021-03-12 |website=Washington Digital Newspapers |publisher=Washington State Library}} As publisher, he championed the Good Roads Movement, the creation of Pend Oreille County and construction of the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge. Wolf sold the paper in 1945 to Freeman S. Frost. Two decades later Frost sold the paper in 1964 to Gerald Carpenter{{Cite news |date=December 30, 1984 |title=Freeman S. Frost |work=The Spokesman-Review |pages=27}} followed by Jim Hubbart in 1977 and then Fred Willenbrock in 1986.{{Cite web |last=Willenbrock |first=Fred |date=December 28, 2011 |title=Newspaper arrives before most institutions |url=https://issuu.com/thenewportminer/docs/centennial_pages |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=The Newport Miner |language=en}} Fred and Susan Willenbrock sold the paper in 2015 to J. Louis Mullen, whose brother's own Mullen Newspaper Company.{{Cite news |date=March 7, 2015 |title=Business briefs: Two North Idaho weekly newspapers sold |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/mar/07/business-briefs-two-north-idaho-weekly-newspapers/ |access-date=January 28, 2025 |work=The Spokesman-Review |pages=A6}}
References
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External links
- [https://pendoreillerivervalley.com/ Official website]
- [https://www.historylink.org/File/7775 Wolf, Fred L. (1877-1957)]
- [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87008085/ Chronicling America entry]
- [https://issuu.com/thenewportminer/docs/centennial_pages Centennial edition]
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Category:Newspapers published in Washington (state)
Category:Pend Oreille County, Washington