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Portland, Oregon Portland ( / ˈpɔːrtlənd /, PORT-lənd) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Within Oregon it is the county seat of Multnomah County, the largest county in Oregon by population. It is also the twenty-sixth largest city by population in the United States.

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, [7] founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850, and published daily since 1861.

The Portland Observer is one of the oldest African-American newspapers in Oregon. [2] [3] [4] Established in 1970, it is published weekly [5] (on Wednesdays), in Portland, Oregon. Rev. Alfred L. Henderson founded the paper in the 1970s, in the tradition of the People's Observer, a 1940s publication that had ceased publication in 1950. [6]

The Oregonian Building was a building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States, which served as the headquarters of Portland's major newspaper, The Oregonian, from 1892 to 1948. It was the first steel-framed building constructed in the Western U.S., [3] and from its opening until 1911 it was the tallest building in Portland. [4]

This was joined in November 1850 by the Milwaukie Western Star and two partisan papers – the Whig Oregonian, published in Portland beginning on December 4, 1850, and the Democratic Statesman, launched in Oregon City in March 1851. [2] The latter paper would subsequently move to Salem, and it continues today as the Statesman-Journal .