{{Short description|Weekday newspaper in Sitka, Alaska, United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Sitka Sentinel | image = Thad Poulson and Don Young.jpg | logo = Daily Sitka Sentinel logo.jpg | caption = Publisher and editor Thad Poulson with Don Young in 2016 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1939 | ceased_publication = | price = | owners = Thad and Sandy Poulson, Verstovia Corp. | founder = Homer Graham<br/> Jessie Heider | publisher = Thad and Sandy Poulson, Verstovia Corp. | editor = Thad and Sandy Poulson | language = English | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | headquarters = 112 Barracks Street<br>Sitka, Alaska 99835<br>United States | ISSN = | website = {{URL|sitkasentinel.com}} }}
The '''''Sitka Sentinel''''' is an independent, family-owned newspaper published on non-holiday weekdays in Sitka, Alaska, United States. The paper covers local, regional, national and international news, and includes a sports page and an end-of-week arts highlight. The paper features a news department of two reporters.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kwong |first=Emily |date=2015-04-28 |title=After 75 years, family keeps Sitka Sentinel running |url=https://www.kcaw.org/2015/04/27/after-75-years-family-keeps-sentinel-running/ |access-date=2025-10-20 |website=KCAW |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rose |first=Katherine |date=2019-07-23 |title=For Sitka Sentinel reporter, journalism is genetic |url=https://alaskapublic.org/2019-07-23/for-sitka-sentinel-reporter-journalism-is-genetic |access-date=2025-10-20 |website=Alaska Public Media |language=en}}</ref>
== History == In 1939, the ''Sitka Sentinel'' was founded by newly weds Homer Graham and Jessie Heider, two recent graduates of the University of Oregon.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 23, 1939 |title=Two Oregon College Grads Will Start Newspaper in Sitka |work=The World |location=Coos Bay, Oregon |page=1 |agency=United Press}}</ref> It was soon acquired by William L. Baker,<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 20, 1940 |title=A Dream Come True |work=The Alaska Miner |location=Fairbanks, Alaska |page=2}}</ref> who leased it to Oregon newsman Harold A. Veatch and his wife Ernestine.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=April 23, 1989 |title=Veatch published 'Sitka Sentinel' |work=Anchorage Times |page=14}}</ref>
Veatch increased print frequency from once to five times a week during World War II, although the page size was decreased due to a paper shortage. The frequency change was made permanent in 1950.<ref name=":1" /> Thad Poulson joined the paper's staff as assistant editor in January 1969.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 14, 1969 |title=Thad Poulson, former AP staffer, joins Daily Sentinel staff |work=Daily Sitka Sentinel |page=4}}</ref>
Veatch eventually bought the ''Sentinel'' and leased it in February 1969 to Lew and Dorothy Williams, owners of the ''Ketchikan Daily News''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 4, 1969 |title=Veatch Leases Sitka Sentinel |work=Fairbanks Daily News-Miner |page=10 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The Williams also acquired the paper at some point and sold it in 1975 to Thad and his wife Sandy Poulson, who had managed and edited the paper for the past six years. At that time the ''Sentinel'' had a circulation of 2,000.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 4, 1975 |title=Sitka Sentinel Is Sold To Editors |work=Anchorage Times |page=3 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.sitkasentinel.com}} * {{Newseum front page|AK_DSS}} {{Sitka, Alaska}}
Category:1939 establishments in Alaska Category:Daily newspapers published in the United States Category:Independent newspapers published in the United States Category:Newspapers published in Alaska Category:Newspapers established in 1939 Category:Sitka, Alaska