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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

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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.)

Modern materials

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Online databases

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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.

Historical materials

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Detailed notes about specific sources

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New Editions (2013)

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Newspapers covered in this book
  • Bagwell, Steve; Stapilus, Randy (2013). New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be. Carlton, Oregon: Ridenbaugh Press. ISBN 978-0-945648-10-9. OCLC 861618089.
  • 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.)
<ref name=NewEd>{{cite book |last1=Bagwell |first1=Steve |last2=Stapilus |first2=Randy |year=2013 |title=New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be |publisher=Ridenbaugh Press |location=Carlton, Oregon |isbn=978-0-945648-10-9 |oclc=861618089 |url=https://archive.org/details/neweditionsnorth0000bagw/ |page= }}</ref>

These newspapers are discussed in the book, but don't yet have a Wikipedia entry:

Article exists; could expand using New Editions as a source:

Fully formatted footnote has been added

Pioneer Papers of Puget Sound (1903 article)

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Historic papers mentioned in this historical journal article
  • To add a footnote to this article, paste the following text. (You may want to add a page number, by adding it after the "page=" parameter.)
<ref name=PugetPapers>{{cite journal |last1=Bagley |first1=Clarence B. |year=1903 |title=[[wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 4/Pioneer Papers of Puget Sound|Pioneer Papers of Puget Sound]] |work=[[Oregon Historical Quarterly]] |volume=4 |number=4}}</ref>


  • 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)

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List of papers mentioned in these articles

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:

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 wikisource:en:The Washington Newspaper/Volume 6/First Aid for Country Correspondents | wikisource:en:Oregon Exchanges/Volume 6/Number 5 [2]
  • 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
  1. ^ Meany, Edmond S. (January 1923). "Newspapers of Washington Territory". The Washington Historical Quarterly. Vol. 14, no. 1.
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