The Idaho Statesman is a daily newspaper serving the Boise, Idaho metropolitan area. Circulation: 65,000 daily; 87,640 Sunday. [1]. The paper employs 454 people.

First published as the Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman on July 26, 1864 by James S. Reynolds, the paper began publication from a log cabin on the current site of Boise City Hall .

Reynolds owned and operated the paper for its first eight years, selling to Judge Milton Kelly in 1872. Kelly's 17-year run ended in 1888, with the expansion to daily publication, and a name change: The Idaho Daily Statesman.

That summer, Kelly sold the paper to the Cobb family - which went on to run the paper for 70 years. Calvin Cobb published the Statesman until his death in 1928, when control was transfered to his daughter Margaret Cobb Ailshie. The paper's history site says "Ailshie insisted on a lively editorial policy, deploring 'a dull newspaper.'" [2]

Cobb Ailshie died in 1959, and general manager James Brown took control of the paper. Federated Publications bought the Idaho Statesman in 1963. It joined five other publications in Washington, Indiana and Michigan. Federated merged with Gannett in 1971. The paper moved to its current home on Curtis Road in Boise in 1972.

Leslie Hurst is the paper's publisher. Carolyn Washburn serves as executive editor.

The paper features 6 main sections daily: Main, Local, Life, Business, Sports and Idaho Classifieds.

Publications

• The Idaho Statesman daily newspaper
• Thrive Magazine weekly entertainment tabloid
• IdahoStatesman.com Online classifieds and news
• IDHealth magazine Quarterly health news

Links and references

• http://idahostatesman.com
• http://www.gannett.com/map/ataglance/bois.htm
• http://custserv.idahostatesman.com/CustSvc/history.asp