In 1880, the
Idaho Register was established and the
Idaho Post was first published in 1903. In 1925, James Robb Brady Sr., son of
James H. Brady, purchased
The Daily Post from brothers Benjamin and Cliff J. Read. He died a year later, found dead at his desk after suffering from
ptomaine poisoning for several days. In 1931, the Brady estate and E. F. McDermott, owners of the
Idaho Falls Post, purchased the
Idaho Falls Times-Register and merged it with their paper to form the
Post Register'. In 1984, Post Company CEO/president James M. Brady died. His brother Robb Jr. succeeded him as president and in 1988 he announced plans to sell controlling interests of the company to the family trusts of his brother James M. Brady's widow Marion L. Brady. At that time Post Co. also owned
KIFI-TV. At that time
Jerry Brady, James' son and Rob's nephew, became the paper's editor/publisher. In 1998, a number of family
shareholders sold 49% of their interest in the company to an
Employee Stock Ownership Trust, and established employees of The Post Company as official stockholders of the business. The Brady family maintained enough stock, however, to maintain control of the company. In 2002, the paper's owner
Jerry Brady ran as a Democrat for
Governor of Idaho and named Roger Plothow publisher. Brady lost the election to Governor
Dirk Kempthorne. After losing the election, Brady officially turned over the title of editor and publisher to Plothow. In 2005, the paper won the
Scripps Howard Foundation's First Amendment prize for an exposé on
pedophilia in
scouting.
Post-Register journalist
Peter Zuckerman won the
Livingston Award in the category of local reporting for his work on the same story. In 2011, Robb Jr. died. In November 2015, the Post Company, which owned the
Post Register as well as weekly newspapers
Shelley Pioneer,
Challis Messenger, and
Jefferson Star, was purchased by the
Adams Publishing Group, a family-owned media company based in
St. Louis Park, Minnesota. == References ==