Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Research/Washington

The purpose of this page, along with the companion Washington newspapers WikiProject page, is to support creating and improving Wikipedia articles about Washington newspapers. Here, we collect bibliographic information (for footnotes) and notes about source materials that can support composing these articles. These source materials generally include books, academic journal articles, and news articles about Washington journalism and newspapers.

Any newspaper with an entry in at least one of these resources is likely to be notable enough to merit a Wikipedia article.

Please feel free to edit this page to make it more useful! It's just a start, there are surely many other excellent source materials for information about Washington newspapers.

General search techniques
Try searching newspaper databases for the names of newspapers or for journalism-related topics. While some newspaper archives are on the open Internet, the most useful articles are often in paywalled or specialized databases. Several options are:
 * The Internet Archive
 * The Internet Archive stores digitized copies of many books and newspapers, available for free or to borrow with a free account. But to find these contents, you need to use the Internet Archive's own search function; external search engines like Google or Bing will not reveal most of its contents.


 * newspapers.com: a paid subscription. Subscriptions are available free for veteran Wikipedians through the WP:Wikipedia Library program.
 * Your university library or local public library: You probably have the ability to log into databases of newspaper archives through your library.
 * The "Chronicling America" program of the U.S. Library of Congress: This program partners with libraries and universities in each state to digitize historical newspapers. The Washington State Library is the local partner in Washington State. Search its collection here. (A list of all the state partners.)


 * List of newspapers digitized by Google News

Modern materials

 * New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be
 * A 2003 book with histories and basic information on newspapers in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Note, you can check out a digital copy by creating a free account at archive.org. Titles of papers covered in this book listed below, see:.
 * Strait Press: A History of News Media on the North Olympic Peninsula
 * 2018 book covering Clallam and Jefferson counties, including Port Angeles and Port Townsend
 * Newspaper Profiles from Washington Digital Newspapers project (local partner of Chronicling America / Library of Congress project)
 * Washington Newspaper Publishers Association
 * Its monthly newsletter, The Washington Newspaper (TWN), covers community papers in Washington. Note, especially, its annual "Better Newspaper Contest" awards. Some earlier editions available on Google Books, e.g.:
 * Links to Washington newspaper websites from the Washington Secretary of State
 * Links to databases of newspapers from the Washington Secretary of State

Online databases
These sites do little to establish notability and may not meet the threshold of a reliable source, but they may be useful in conjunction with other reference materials.
 * Washington State Library page on newspapers. (This one may be more useful than the rest; it links in turn to a number of online resource, mostly for finding the contents of newspapers, rather than information about the newspapers; but it's worth further investigation.)
 * OfficialUSA page on WA newspapers
 * ABYZ page on WA newspapers
 * Washington public notices
 * mondotimes.com

Historical materials

 * History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, chapter 9 (1890) General history covers earliest newspapers.
 * "Pioneer Papers of Puget Sound" (1903) Has basic info about some of the original Washington papers.
 * "Newspapers of Washington Territory" (1922-1948). A listing by city name, with several installments in the Washington Historical Quarterly. See: Newspapers of Washington Territory

New Editions (2013)



 * To add a footnote to this book, paste the following text. (You may want to add a page number, by adding it after the "page=" parameter.)

These newspapers are discussed in the book, but don't yet have a Wikipedia entry:
 * The American (Anacortes; published by Pioneer News Group/Skagit Valley Herald
 * The News-Tribune (Ballard; Robinson Newspapers)
 * Belfair Herald
 * Bremerton Patriot
 * Des Moines News, SeaTac News (see Highline Times entry in book)
 * Camas Post-Record
 * Chewelah Independent
 * Colville Examiner
 * Coulee City News & Standard
 * Davenport Times (Washington)
 * Douglas County Empire Press
 * Dispatch (Eatonville)
 * East County News (Elma)
 * Grant County Journal
 * Ferndale Record
 * Grand Coulee Star
 * Issaquah Press
 * La Conner Weekly News
 * Lynden Tribune
 * Voice of the Valley (Maple Valley)
 * Mercer Island Reporter
 * Monitor & Valley News (Monroe)
 * The Vidette (Washington newspaper) (Montesano)
 * East County Journal (Morton)
 * North Coast News (Ocean Shores)
 * Odessa Record
 * Okanogan County Chronicle
 * Port Townsend Leader
 * Valley Post-Register (Quincy)
 * Ferry County View (Republic)
 * Ritzville Adams County Journal
 * Rochester Sun News
 * Capitol Hill Times (Seattle)
 * Queen Anne & Magnolia News (Seattle)
 * Mason County Journal (Shelton)
 * Snohomish County Tribune
 * Spokane Valley News Herald
 * Skamania County Pioneer (Stevenson)
 * Independent & Sun News (Tenino/Rochester)
 * Review-Independent (Toppenish))
 * South Beach Bulletin (Westport
 * White Center News (same entry in book as West Seattle Herald)
 * White Salmon Enterprise
 * Wilbur Register

Article exists; could expand using New Editions as a source:
 * Kitsap Sun
 * Centralia Chronicle
 * Whidbey News-Times
 * Enumclaw Courier-Herald
 * Columbia Basin Herald (Moses Lake)
 * Skagit Valley Herald
 * Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles)
 * Port Orchard Independent
 * Seattle Weekly
 * Seattle Times
 * Sequim Gazette
 * Tacoma Weekly
 * The Columbian (Vancouver)
 * Union-Bulletin (Walla Walla)
 * Wenatchee World
 * Herald-Republic (Yakima)
 * Grandview Herald
 * Highline Times (same entry in book as Des Moines News, SeaTac News)
 * Goldendale Sentinel
 * Beachcomber (Vashon/Maury Island)
 * West Seattle Herald / White Center News
 * Nisqually Valley News (Yelm)
 * The Olympian
 * Othello Outlook
 * North Kitsap Herald
 * Tacoma News Tribune / Puyallup Herald
 * Snoqualmie Valley Record
 * Pacific NW Inlander (Spokane)
 * Spokesman-Review (Spokane)
 * The Waitsburg Times
 * Ellensburg Daily Record Daily Record (Washington)

Fully formatted footnote has been added
 * The Arlington Times (Sound Publishing)
 * Daily Sun News (Sunnyside)
 * The Reflector (Washington newspaper)
 * The Bellingham Herald
 * Whitman County Gazette
 * Journal of the San Juan Islands
 * Tri-City Herald
 * Everett Daily Herald
 * Marysville Globe
 * Wahkiakum County Eagle
 * Chinook Observer
 * The Stranger (newspaper)
 * Longview Daily News

Pioneer Papers of Puget Sound (1903 article)



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 * Herald (Steilacoom)
 * Tribune (Olympia)
 * Standard (Olympia)
 * Columbian
 * Pioneer and Democrat (Olympia)
 * Puget Sound Courier (Steilacoom)
 * Northern Light (Whatcom)
 * Port Townsend Register
 * Northwest (Port Townsend)
 * The Message (Port Townsend)
 * Puget Sound Argus (Port Townsend)
 * Overland Press (Olympia)
 * Pacific Tribune (Olympia)
 * Washington Standard (Olympia)
 * Seattle Gazette
 * Puget Sound Gazette
 * Puget Sound Weekly
 * Puget Sound Dispatch
 * Seattle Post
 * Seattle Intelligencer
 * North Pacific Rural, Chronicle, Post, Times, Press
 * Seattle Times and Alaska Herald
 * Partisan
 * Echo (Tacoma)
 * Ledger (Tacoma)
 * News (Tacoma)
 * Times, Press-Times

Newspapers of Washington Territory (1922-1948)
A listing by city, compiled by Edmond S. Meany for the Washington Historical Quarterly beginning in 1922. Additions were published serially, by Meany and later by J. Orin Oliphant. They were organized by city name:
 * Aberdeen to Index | Kalama – Olympia | Orondo – Ruby | Seabeck – Seattle (1) | Seattle (2) – Snohomish | Snohomish – Yakima
 * (See also the Google Books version. Note that the WHQ was renamed to The Pacific Northwest Quarterly.)

Oliphant updates:
 * 1927 additions: Almira, Cheney, Colfax, Colton, Colville, Davenport, Dayton, Ellensburg, Farmington, Garfield, Goldendale, Harrington, Medical Lake, Olympia, Palouse, Pullman, Rockford, Roasalia, Spokane, Sprague, Tacoma, Tekoa, Toledo, Uniontown, Walla Walla, Wallula, Wilbur, Yakima
 * 1948 additions (JSTOR): Aberdeen, Dayton, Farmington, Medical Lake, Olympia, Port Townsend, Rockford, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Toledo, Uniontown, Waitsburg

Initial Aberdeen to Index article:


 * ABERDEEN: Bulletin, Herald
 * ALLYN: Times
 * ALMIRA Journal
 * ANACORTES: American, Northwest Enterprise, Progress
 * ARLINGTON: Times
 * ASOTIN: Asotin County Sentinel
 * BLAINE: Journal
 * BUCKLEY: Banner
 * BUCODA: Enterprise
 * CASTLEROCK: Cowlitz Advocate
 * CATHLAMET: Gazette
 * CENTRALIA: Chronicle, News, Sunday Independent
 * CHEHALIS: Bee-Nugget The Washington Newspaper/Volume 6/First Aid for Country Correspondents | Oregon Exchanges/Volume 6/Number 5
 * CHENEY: Enterprise, Northwest Tribune, Sentinel
 * CHEWELAH: Stevens County Sun
 * CHICO: Port Washington Sentinel
 * COLFAX: Commoner, Northwest Tribune, Palouse Gazette,
 * COLVILLE: Republican, Stevens County Miner, Stevens County Recorder, Stevens County Reporter, Stevens County Standard
 * CONCONULLY: Okanogan Outlook
 * COUPEVILLE: Island News
 * DAVENPORT: Lincoln County Times, Lincoln Leader
 * DAYTON: Baptist Sentinel, Columbia Chronicle, Inlander, News, Reporter, School Journal
 * DESMOINES: News
 * ELLENSBURG: Capital, Localizer, Kittitas Standard, New Era, State Register
 * ELMA: Chronicle
 * FAIRHAVEN: Herald, Plaindealer
 * FARRINGTON: Register
 * FREMONT: Lake Union Sentinel
 * GARFIELD: Enterprise
 * GIBRALTER: Washington Farmer
 * GOLDENDALE: Gazette, Klickitat Sun, Sentinel, Tribune
 * GRAYS HARBOR CITY: Times
 * HALLER CITY: Stillaquamish Times, see Arlington Times.
 * HAMILTON: Herald
 * HOQUIAM: Chehalis Tribune, Grays Harbor News, Grays Harbor Washingtonian
 * INDEX: Miner