| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Pamplin Media Group |
| Publisher | Tony Ahern |
| Editor | Teresa Jackson |
| Founded | 1904 |
| City | Madras, Oregon |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 5,300 (as of 2022)[1] |
| ISSN | 2835-6160 |
| OCLC number | 982172866 |
| Website | madraspioneer |
The Madras Pioneer is a weekly paper published Wednesday inMadras,Oregon, United States.[2] It is published on Wednesdays.[3] It is thenewspaper of record forJefferson County.[4]
The Madras Pioneer was first published on August 25, 1904.[5] A year later Max Lueddemann purchased the paper,[6] and he sold it to Howard W. Turner in 1909.[7] William E. Johnson became the owner in 1924,[8] but died a year later of pneumonia.[9] May B. Johnson owned the paper from 1925 until 1946 when she sold it to W. H. Hall.[10]
Hall briefly operated the paper for about two years until selling out in 1948 to Bill Robinson andElmo Smith,[11] who went on to foundEagle Newspapers.[12] A few months later Oscar W. Lange Jr. bought in as a third owner.[13]
In January 2013, the paper was sold to thePamplin Media Group along with five other papers owned by Eagle Newspapers.[14][15]Robert B. Pamplin Jr. sold his newspaper company in June 2024 to Carpenter Media Group.[16]
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