The
Umpqua Post was first published on November 4, 1996, by founders Elizabeth Adamo and Nancie Hammond. When it launched, Reedsport had a population around 4,900 and already had another paper called
The Courier. This made the town one of two Oregon cities to have two general-circulation weekly newspapers, with the other being
John Day. Eight years later, in 2004, the
Post was purchased by
Pulitzer, Inc. Ownership shifted to
Lee Enterprises in 2005 with that company's acquisition of Pulitzer. In January 2020, Lee sold the
Post to
Country Media, Inc., who shuttered the publication in June 2020. At the time, publisher Ben Kenfield cited the economic downturn caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for the closure. ==References==