The Columbia County Spotlight, previously known as the Scappoose Spotlight[2] and the South County Spotlight,[3] is a weekly newspaper in Columbia County, Oregon, United States, established in 1961.[4]
Reporter Tyler Graf won a first place award for feature business writing for a Spotlight article in 2012.[5] Graf, who had recently come to the paper from the Daily Journal of Commerce, soon moved on to the nearby Daily Astorian.[6] The newspaper won four awards in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest in 2015,[7] including second place for best editorial, third place for best feature, second place for best graphics and first place for best sports photo. The Spotlight is a general member of the association. Its coverage has been cited by other newspapers in the area, including The Oregonian,[8][9][10] and it is part of the Northwest News Partnership, along with Daily Astorian and the EO Media Group.[11][12][13]
Darryl Swan, who had previously served as the paper's news editor, was appointed publisher in 2008[14] and remained in that role until 2020.[15] In 2020, Nikki DeBuse was named publisher and Mark Miller, who reported for the Spotlight from 2013 to 2015, was named editor.[4]
^Bagwell, Steve; Stapilus, Randy (2013). New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be. Carlton, Oregon: Ridenbaugh Press. ISBN978-0-945648-10-9. OCLC861618089.