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Trailblazing Portland Black-owned newspaper The Skanner closes shop
Trailblazing Portland Black-owned newspaper The Skanner closes shop
Trailblazing Portland Black-owned newspaper The Skanner closes shop

Published on: 02/04/2026

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Editor Bobbie Dore Foster (standing) checks story on a computer terminal with Charlotte Schoenkopf, the graphics department editor, in 1985.

The Skanner, Portland’s dominant Black-owned newspaper, shuttered on Jan. 30.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2026/02/trailblazing-portland-black-owned-newspaper-the-skanner-closes-shop.html

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