Grants Pass Daily Courier

The Grants Pass Daily Courier is the largest local newspaper serving the city of Grants Pass, Oregon.

Quote

This quote is found on the newspaper's official web site:

"The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account.'
-- Walter Lippmann"

Company Information

Newspaper Name:	Grants Pass Daily Courier
Company Name:	Courier Publishing Co Inc
Ownership:	Family owned (Voorhies)
Circulation:	~17,500 (Year: 2005, Source: Daily Courier)
Circulation:	~16,201 (Year: 2005, 6-month avg as of 3/31/2005, Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations)
Circulation:	~16,987 (Year: 2001, Source: Editor & Publisher)
# of Employees:	~106

Other Publications owned by Courier Publishing Co Inc:

Publication	Date Filed	Counties Filed
Apple Press	11/24/1986	Josephine
Central Point Times	08/26/1998	Jackson, Josephine
Central Valley Times	08/21/1986	Jackson, Josephine, Klamath
Country Weekly	03/30/1982	Douglas, Jackson, Josephine

Newsroom Diversity

The Daily Courier primarily serves two zip codes: 97526 and 97527. The non-white percentage of population in those zip codes is 9.1 percent (97526) and 7.7 percent (97527). The non-white percentage reported in the newspaper's overall "circulation area" is reported as 8.6 percent. As of June 2005 the non-white percentage of newsroom staff was reported as 3.8 percent. (Source: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.)

National Attention Following 9/11 Attacks

In October 2001 the Grants Pass Daily Courier received national attention after a columnist and copy editor was fired. Dan Guthrie, an employee and author of the "Dogwatch" column for eight years, was terminated shortly after he wrote in a Sept. 15th column that President Bush "skeddadled" following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

There was public outcry after the article ran including protests and death threats directed against Guthrie. He was fired by publisher Dennis Mack, although no official reason for the termination was ever given.

Dennis Roler was the editor who had allowed the column to run. In an apology to readers, he wrote: "Criticism of our chief executive and those around him needs to be responsible and appropriate. Labeling him and the nation's other top leaders as cowards as the United States tries to unite after its bloodiest terrorist attack ever isn't responsible or appropriate."

The Grants Pass Daily Courier Official Web Site