The Bee (Portland newspaper)

The Bee is a newspaper based in Sellwood, a neighborhood of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was founded as the Sellwood Bee in 1906, and at various times has been known as Bee, the Milwaukee Bee, and the Sellwood-Moreland Bee. It returned to simply the Bee in 1970, and has retained the name since.

The Bee was mentioned in Rowell's American Newspaper Directory the year after it launched.^[3] From its earliest days until recent history, the Bee has earned favorable mentions, as well as quotation or republication in, publications ranging from those in nearby St. Johns^[4] (which had common ownership with the Bee for some years) to papers elsewhere in Oregon,^[5] and occasionally as far away as Iowa.^[6]

At the time of the Bee's founding, Sellwood had 5,000 to 6,000 residents.^[7] The paper was founded as a weekly publication with an annual subscription cost of US$1.^[7] Citing boycotts and labor costs, founders Charles Ballard and C. T. Price moved the Bee to neighboring Milwaukie about four months into publication, changing its name to the Milwaukee Bee (with an incorrect spelling); but they returned to Sellwood eight months later, to offices the paper would occupy until the 1990s. Ballard sold his share to C. M. Thompson in 1907.^[7] Thompson and Price had some success in building up the paper, and used its pages to advocate for business interests in Sellwood's development. John P. Locke, who also owned the Nob Hill News of Northwest Portland, bought the paper in 1920, but kept Thompson on as publisher.^[7][8] The publisher as of 1939 was C. M. Thompson.^[9]

El título del periódico fue originalmente Sellwood Bee (la mayor parte de 1906–49 ^{[ 10 ]} ); The Milwaukee Bee (brevemente, durante su primer año ^{[ 7 ]} ); The Sellwood-Moreland Bee (1949–70 ^{[ 11 ]} ); y simplemente The Bee (1917–18 ^{[ 12 ]} y 1970–presente ^{[ 13 ]} ).

Marcia y Tom Pry compraron el Bee en 1974 y lo convirtieron en una cadena de siete periódicos locales. Marcia Pry era muy conocida, entre otras cosas, por ser la primera mujer presidenta de la Asociación de Editores de Periódicos de Oregón. ^{[ 14 ]} Los Pry también financiaron el lanzamiento de una revista musical de larga trayectoria, The Two Louies . ^{[ 15 ]}

Los Pry vendieron el periódico a MR Communications Group en marzo de 1994. ^{[ 16 ]} En diciembre, MR anunció que cerraría el Bee y que había vendido otros tres periódicos de Portland que había comprado ( St. Johns Review , el periódico comunitario semanal más antiguo de Portland; Northwest Neighbor , un periódico comunitario mensual fundado en 1975 por el exalcalde Bud Clark ; y el Hollywood Star ). ^{[ 17 ]} Teresa Wood Smith compró el periódico, evitando su desaparición, en 1995, y John y Carol Dillin se lo compraron a ella en 1996. ^{[ 18 ]}

El Pamplin Media Group compró el periódico a los Dillins en 2000, una compra que se anunció simultáneamente con la adquisición de otros 10 periódicos. ^{[ 19 ]}

En 2006, el Bee publicó una retrospectiva de cuatro páginas con motivo de su centenario. ^{[ 20 ] [ 21 ]}

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