[1] The major state newspaper, The Oregonian, has published items from The Skanner on its website Oregon Live.

He became part-owner of the Northwest Dispatch in Tacoma, Washington in 1985, and launched a Seattle edition of the Skanner in 1996.

[4] In 1992, Foster, then president of the organization, announced a deal with Nordstrom to spend $220,000 on advertising in 20 Black papers in the west.

[5] In 1989, The Skanner began campaigning for the renaming of Portland's Union Avenue to Martin Luther King Boulevard.

[8] In 2009, the newspaper's owners installed security cameras on their head office in North Portland, to monitor an adjacent hot spot of drug deals and shootings, and made sure loiterers knew they were being watched.