{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} '''''Oregon Exchanges''''' was an American newspaper published by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications (SOJC) in the early 20th century. It initially described itself as a "Newspaper for Newspaper Men";<ref>{{Cite news |title=Oregon Exchanges |last=Grammell |first=Fred A. |date=1917 |volume=1 |number=1|publisher=F.A. Grammell |language=en}}</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11438340/the_capital_journal/ October 6, 1945 News-Review from Roseburg, Oregon];</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T85_CgAAQBAJ&q=%2522Oregon%2520Exchanges%2522%2520newspaper&pg=PA94 |title=Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps: Community, Not Controversy |last=Bishop |first=Ronald |date=2015-06-03 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=9781498511087 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Printers and Press Operators: The ''Oregonian'' remembered | first=Harry H. |last=Stein | journal=Oregon Historical Quarterly |volume=115 | pages=208–223 |number=2 |year=2014| jstor=10.5403/oregonhistq.115.2.0208 | doi=10.5403/oregonhistq.115.2.0208 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=An Argument over County Press Associations |work=The Washington Newspaper: A Publication Dedicated to the Study and Improvement of Journalism in Washington |year=1917 |volume=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=555HAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Oregon+Exchanges%22+&pg=PA117 |page=177}}</ref> by 1930, it had adopted the gender-neutral slogan "For the Newspaper Folk of the State of Oregon."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crYsAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Oregon+Exchanges%22 | title=Oregon Exchanges: For the Newspaper Folk of the State of Oregon| year=1930}}</ref> Its first issue was published in June 1917, the year after the school's founding. By the October issue, it was announced that students in the editing class would edit the publication.<ref>{{cite news |title=Journalism in the Colleges |work=Fourth Estate |date=October 27, 1917}}</ref> By 1920, students were producing the newspaper as part of their coursework in a course titled "Practical Editing."<ref>{{cite book |title=The University of Oregon, Eugene: Catalog 1919-1920; Announcements 1920-1921 |year=1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/catalogueforyear19univ/page/286?q=%22Oregon+Exchanges%22 }}</ref> The paper was reportedly greeted with much praise at a 1922 convention of Sigma Delta Chi, a national journalism society.<ref>[https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1922-11-24/ed-1/seq-21/ Oregon Papers Lauded], Morning Oregonian, November 24, 1922.</ref>
Professor George Stanley Turnbull served as editor in 1923,<ref name=turnbull39preface>{{cite book |title=History of Oregon Newspapers |first= George S. |last=Turnbull |year=1939 |publisher=Binfords & Mort | chapter=Preface |title-link= wikisource:en:History of Oregon Newspapers }}</ref> and that year it was named the official organ of the Oregon State Editorial Association.<ref>Oregon Exchanges/Volume 6/Number 7</ref> In 1924, it published the second Oregon newspaper directory, which was prepared by the SOJC.<ref name=turnbull39>{{cite book |title=History of Oregon Newspapers |first= George S. |last=Turnbull |year=1939 |publisher=Binfords & Mort | chapter=Growth of Oregon Newspapers |title-link= wikisource:en:History of Oregon Newspapers }}</ref> In 1929 ''Editor & Publisher'' described it as the "organ of the Oregon Press Association."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1929-09-28_62_19/page/90/mode/2up|title = Editor and Publisher 1929-09-28: Vol 62 Iss 19|date = 28 September 1929|publisher = Duncan McIntosh}}</ref> ''Oregon Exchanges'' was discontinued as part of a cost-cutting campaign resulting from the Great Depression in 1932.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzcbAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Oregon+Exchanges%22 | title=Journalists in the Making: A History of the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon| last1=Turnbull| first1=George Stanley|page=41| year=1965}}</ref> It was succeeded a few months later by ''Oregon Publisher'', which was produced by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, an organization with close ties to the SOJC.<ref name=turnbull39preface />
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