Ashland.News Reports Purchase of Rogue Valley Times Parent Company, EO Media Group

ASHLAND.NEWS, Bert Etling.
Pendleton, OR — October 23, 2024 — Carpenter Media Group announced today that a preliminary agreement has been reached to acquire the assets of EO Media Group, a respected family-owned media company with deep roots in the Pacific Northwest. The acquisition includes EO Media Group’s portfolio of more than two dozen newspapers and magazines across Oregon and Washington.

Titles include EO Media Group’s flagship newspaper, the East Oregonian (OR), GO! Eastern Oregon (OR), The Astorian (OR), Chinook Observer (WA), Seaside Signal (OR), Our Coast Magazine (OR/WA), The Bulletin (OR), Redmond Spokesman (OR), GO! Central Oregon (OR), Rogue Valley Times (OR), GO! Rogue Valley (OR), Discover Our Coast (OR/WA), Coast River Business Journal (OR/WA), The Hermiston Herald (OR), La Grande Observer (OR), Baker City Herald (OR), Blue Mountain Eagle (OR), the Wallowa County Chieftain (OR), Oregon Capital Insider (OR), The Other Oregon magazine (OR), Capital Press (OR/WA/ID), and Grower’s Guide (WA).

To read more about this purchase originally published by the RV Times, visit here

You can also read stories of the early years. Here are a few to get you started…

The Rogue Valley Times reported that Stephen A. Forrester, President and CEO of EO Media Group, and his cousin Kathryn B. Brown, Vice President of the company, reflected on the emotional significance of this transition and the family’s long history in publishing:

“The roots of my sentiment stretch back to the 1950s, when I first entered the old East Oregonian building in Pendleton,” Forrester shared. “My father’s office had once been my grandfather’s, Edwin Burton Aldrich. Over decades, our family has worked to build lasting connections with the communities we serve, especially in places like Pendleton and Astoria.”

“My great-grandfather and the East Oregonian were involved in starting the Pendleton Round-Up, and my grandmother, Amy Bedford, put much of her life into creation of the Pendleton River Parkway,” Brown said.

Forrester added, “In Astoria, The Daily Astorian led a decade-long drive to restore the Liberty Theater. And in John Day, we were enormously proud of our publisher of the Blue Mountain Eagle, Marissa Williams, and our editor Scotta Callister for standing up to the Aryan Nation, which sought to establish a new homeland in Grant County in 2010.”