Steve Forrester columns for Northwest Newspapers

Collection

Identifier: Coll 1052

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of nine bound volumes containing columns that Steve Forrester wrote for Northwest Newspapers, a Washington, D.C., news bureau that distributed to newspapers in Oregon, Washington state, and Idaho. Some columns are printouts, while others are photocopies of typescripts. Some of the columns are in draft form and include handwritten edits. The columns focus on the United States Congress, discussing specific legislators from the Pacific Northwest, as well as legislative bills and topics that relate to the region. Legislation discussed includes the Northwest Power Act and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, while topics include management of natural resources, land and water use, and energy. The columns range in date from June 1978 to October 1987.

Dates

Creation: 1978-1987

Creator

Forrester, Steve (Author, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright for materials in this collection is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed under a Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Biographical Note

Steve Forrester was a reporter for the Oregon Journal newspaper in Portland, Oregon, before becoming one of the founders and the managing editor of the Portland weekly newspaper Willamette Week. In 1978, he purchased the Washington, D.C.-based news bureau Northwest Newspapers from A. Robert Smith. From then until 1987, Forrester wrote news columns that the bureau distributed to newspapers in Oregon, Washington state, and Idaho, including the Eugene Register-Guard, the Daily Astorian, the East Oregonian, the Klamath Falls Herald & News, the Roseburg News Review, and the Medford Mail Tribune. He then succeeded his father, J. W. "Bud" Forrester, as publisher and editor of the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon.

Sources: "Former mayor's aide to start weekly paper," Oregonian, October 17, 1974; "Astoria publisher to retire," Oregonian, July 29, 1987; information provided by Steve Forrester in 2024.

Extent

1.51 Cubic Feet (1 record carton; 1 letter document case)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Nine volumes containing printouts and photocopied typescripts of Steve Forrester's columns for Northwest Newspapers. Northwest Newspapers was a news bureau in Washington, D.C., that Forrester owned from 1978 to 1987, and through which he distributed a news column to newspapers in Oregon, Washington state, and Idaho. The columns discussed U.S. Congress members from those states and legislation or political issues that related to the Pacific Northwest. Some of the columns are drafts that include handwritten edits.