The ''Peninsula Gateway'' is a newspaper based out of

Gig Harbor Gig Harbor () is the name of both a bay on Puget Sound and a city on its shore in Pierce County, Washington. The population was 12,029 at the 2020 census. Gig Harbor bills itself as "the Maritime City" and maintains a strong connection to its ...

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, founded in 1917. The newspaper covers the local news of Gig Harbor and

Key Peninsula The Key Peninsula lies along Puget Sound to the south of Kitsap Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. It is part of Pierce County and is bordered to the west by Case Inlet and to the east by Carr Inlet. The peninsula is approximately 16 mi ...

. The ''Peninsula Gateway'' is published once a week on Wednesdays. Its online content can be found via the websites ''News Tribune'' and the ''Seattle Times''.

History

The ''Bay Island News'' was started in May 1917 by Ira Case. A few years later the paper was purchased in August 1923 from F. S. Drummond by Charles Edward Trombley, former editor of the ''Tillamook Herald''. He then changed the name to ''The Peninsula Gateway.'' Trombley published the paper for 30 years until his death in 1953. His widow sold the paper in January 1955 to Robert H. Platt Sr. Years later he sold ''Gateway'' to his sons Robert H. Platt Jr. and John Platt in 1969. Thomas C. Taylor, former publisher of the '' Newport News Times'' and ''Lincoln County Leader'', purchased a half-interest in the paper with his father Walt Taylor in May 1981. John Platt sold the Taylor family the remaining shares in 1987. Walt and Betty Taylor ran the paper with their son and daughter-in-law Tom and Darlene Taylor until 1995, when the newspaper was purchased by

McClatchy McClatchy Media Company, or simply McClatchy and MCC, is an American publishing company incorporated under Delaware's General Corporation Law. Originally based in Sacramento, California, United States, and known as The McClatchy Company, it b ...

, which also owns the ''News Tribune''. At the time, the ''Gateway'' had 11,000 subscribers.

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External links

McClatchy Company

The News Tribune

The Seattle Times
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