The Ashland Daily Tidings is Southern Oregon's oldest newspaper, first publishing in 1876. It serves readers in Ashland, Talent, Phoenix and Medford, and recently established an online presence at www.dailytidings.com. The Tidings is an award winning newspaper with an editorial staff of 10 and more than 40 fulltime employees in production, design, advertising and administration. The Tidings' stated mission is to be the primary news and information source for southern Jackson County. Its reporting and editing staff works hard to be the eyes of ears of its readers, to defend the public's right to know, and to provide a forum for community comment. It strives to serve as a conduit for information, entertainment and advertising that is useful to the communities it serves, and to be an advocate on behalf of worthwhile community endeavors. It has a circulation of about 5,500 and publishes six days a week, Monday through Saturday. The Tidings is a part of the Pacific Northwest Publishing Group, which is part of Lee Enterprises, a publicly held media company based in Davenport, Iowa. Other Oregon holdings include the Albany Democrat-Herald, Mid-Valley Sunday, Corvallis Gazette-Times, Newport News-Times, Springfield News, Sandy Post, Lebanon Express, Gresham Outlook and a number of Nickel and other specialty publications.