The Columbian

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The Columbian
January 14, 2006 edition of The Columbian
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Scott Campbell
Founded	1890
Headquarters	Vancouver, Washington

Website: Official website

The Columbian is a daily newspaper for Vancouver, Washington and Clark County in Washington State in the United States. The paper was published for its first decade (1890-1900) as a four page daily that was meant as a counterweight to the local Republican newspaper The Independent. Printer Tom Carolan began publication of The Vancouver Columbian on October 10, 1890. Later, the paper became staunchly Republican in editorial outlook, and supported Republican political candidates across the board (though it does syndicate some liberal editorialists, its local editorials are conservative). It successfully hedged out daily competition, such as the former Independent, to become the sole daily in the city today. A former weekly The Sun which published for 39 years prior to going daily, was absorbed by the Columbian and for a time the paper was published as The Vancouver Columbian and the Sun. Today the paper is published by Scott Campbell [1], and is the official paper of the Cities of Vancouver and Washougal^[1].

Members of The Columbian's editorial board are Scott Campbell, Lou Brancaccio, John Laird, Tom Koenninger, Douglas E. Ness and editorial writers Elizabeth Hovde and Gregg Herrington.

[edit] History

The Vancouver Columbian was first published as a weekly on October 10, 1890, before becoming a weekday paper on October 19, 1908. Owned by the Campbell family since 1921, it occupied a series of offices in downtown Vancouver before building its own offices at what is now the northwest corner of Evergreen and Broadway in 1928. Relocating to larger headquarters in 1955, it published its first Sunday edition on August 6, 1972, its first Saturday edition on July 10, 1999, and changed from afternoon to morning delivery in July of 2000. The paper relocated to its present offices just south of Esther Short Park on January 13, 2008.^[2]