The News-Review is a five-day-a-week community newspaper published in Roseburg, Oregon, United States.
The circulation area covers all of Douglas County including Canyonville, Glide, Myrtle Creek, Oakland, Roseburg, Sutherlin, and Winston.
In September 1871 their newspaper plant was destroyed in a fire and would resume publication on January 6 the next year.
[2] The Republican Gales were bitter rivals of southern Democrat William “Bud” Thompson, the publisher and owner of The Plaindealer.
[3] The inciting incident occurred when one Saturday Thompson ran into Thomas Gale at the post office.
Two days later as Thompson was stepping out of his office, he was confronted by the Gale brothers in downtown Roseburg on June 11, 1871.
Newspapers report the encounter started with Thompson apologizing to Thomas for spitting in his face, which was not accepted.
Success was not attained without gaining the enmity and bitter hatred of my would-be rivals in business.
[4] Mosher sold the Plaindealer in 1873 to William H. Byars, who quickly converted it from a Democratic to Republican paper and published it for about 10 years.
[2] The Plaindealer became the Umpqua Valley News in 1905 and merged with the Roseburg Review in 1920 to form The News-Review.
In September 2015, the paper was purchased from Swift by Patrick Markham and his company, Lotus Media Group.
[7] In January 2024, a ransomware attack targeting Lotus Media Group resulted in the newspaper's staff getting locked out of email and other software programs used to produce the paper.