The new Rogue Valley Times sign at 2 E. Main St. in downtown Medford.

While the Rogue Valley Times centers most of its attention on stories, photos and opinions from Southern Oregon, sharing statewide news and views also is a key part of our mission.

When EO Media Group launched the Times in February 2023, we immediately became part of a larger, well-established family. The list is long — there are EO newspapers in Bend, Baker City, Astoria, John Day, Seaside, Salem, Hermiston, Pendleton, Redmond, La Grande, Enterprise and one in Long Beach, Washington, on the southwest coast.

Regular readers of our website and app will be familiar with many of these datelines. We have a daily Editor’s Pick and a daily From Our News Partners link on our homepage, and these are almost always from our fellow EO papers.

Meanwhile, we instituted news-sharing agreements with several newspapers in our region, including the Herald and News in Klamath Falls, the News-Review in Roseburg and the Curry Pilot in Brookings. We also subscribe to Tribune News Service, which gives us access to stories and photos from The Oregonian/oregonlive.com.

The story subjects range from hyper-local to hard news to community features. We post them to give Times readers a better view of what’s going on around the state, and if there is a continuing story that warrants follow-up coverage, we do that on a regular basis.

For most of February and into the first week of March, we followed the entire short session of the Oregon Legislature in Salem using our resources from the Oregon Capital Chronicle, yet another partner through EO Media Group. The Chronicle gives us what amounts to our own Capitol bureau reporting corps for statewide coverage year-round.

The Capital Press in Salem is the region’s preeminent agricultural newspaper, and we often publish stories online about farming and ranching, viticulture to environmental issues, that have local interest or a local impact.

Many of our papers are in Eastern Oregon, where stories surface about small-town politics or school-related issues; other stories have been about health care, homelessness and local veterans groups. There are many similarities to what communities in the Rogue Valley encounter, but there also are unique situations that show how vastly different our state can be.

And sharing this with our readers doesn’t just happen online.

Our print product three days per week includes many stories from our partners, giving our print readers the chance to understand issues around the state.

If you are a subscriber, you already know this, and we thank you. If you haven’t subscribed to the Times, which can include digital-only or a full print edition/digital subscription, we invite you to sign up at http://rv-times.com/subscribe or by calling us at 800-781-3214.

— Troy Heie, editor