Wilsonville Spokesman | |
Type: | Weekly newspaper |
Format: | Broadsheet |
Foundation: | 1983 |
Owners: | Pamplin Media Group |
Publisher: | J. Brian Monihan |
Editor: | Patrick Malee |
Language: | English |
Circulation: | 5,254 |
Circulation Date: | 2022 |
Circulation Ref: | [1] |
Headquarters: | Wilsonville, Oregon, USA |
The Wilsonville Spokesman is the local weekly newspaper in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Published on Wednesdays,[2] the paper is owned by Pamplin Media Group, which owns other local newspapers in Oregon such as The Newberg Graphic and The Canby Herald.
The newspaper was founded in 1983 by Thomas Russ Dillon.[3] Eagle Newspapers sold the newspaper in January 2013 to Pamplin Media Group.[4] [5]
In 2003, the newspaper won two awards from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.[6] That year an opinion piece printed in the paper was part of a lawsuit by a city employee against the city council relating to protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.[7] In 2006, the paper took two second and two third place awards for newspapers in their category from the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.[8]