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The Olympian is a daily newspaper based in Olympia, Washington, in the United States. It is owned by McClatchy.
The Olympian started in 1860 as The Washington Standard, a weekly paper. It was founded by John Miller Murphy, and its first issue was released on November 17, 1860. The paper became The Daily Olympian in February 1889 when it began publishing daily.
In 1893, J. O'B. Scobey and George W. Hopp, owners of The Daily Olympian, acquired the Evening Tribune from J.W. Robinson and merged the two to form the Olympian-Tribune. Scobey sold a controlling interest to S.A. Madge in 1896 but continued to control the paper's editorial policy. The paper's name eventualy reverted back to The Daily Olympian In 1902, Sidney A. Perkins acquired a rival paper called The Daily Recorder of Olympia.
In November 1904, H. D. Crawford and Charles F. Cork, who had recently acquired the Aberdeen Bulletin from Perkins, purchased the The Daily Olympian. In August 1905, their partnership ended, with Crawford taking full control of The Daily Olympian and Cork becoming the sole proprietor and editor of the Bulletin. In September 1905, Crawford sold the paper to David King and Charles M. Hartwell.
In 1906, Perkins acquired The Daily Olympian. R.T. Buchanan of Indianapolis was named editor. Perkins merged the paper with The Daily Recorder in September 1927. Perkins published the paper until his death at age 90 in 1955. Federated Publications bought The Bellingham Herald and The Daily Olympian from the Perkins Press company in 1967, and merged with the Gannett Corporation in 1971. The paper's name was shortened to The Olympian in 1982. In September 2005, The Olympian was traded by Gannett Company, Inc., along with The Bellingham Herald and Boise newspapers, to Knight Ridder in exchange for the Tallahassee Democrat. In 2006, Knight Ridder was acquired by The McClatchy Company.
In June 2017, The Olympian announced that it would move to an office in downtown Olympia, on the corner of Legion Way and Franklin Street. In 2019, printing of the paper was moved to the press of The Columbian in Vancouver, Washington. Before that, it had been printed for many years in Tacoma on a press originally part of The News Tribune. The age of that press made it too costly to maintain.
Starting on Jan. 25, 2020, The Olympian ceased producing a printed newspaper on Saturdays and replaced it with expanded newspapers on Fridays and Sundays. In July 2023, The Olympian switched from delivering physical papers by local carrier to using the U.S. Mail. In March 2024, the paper announced it would decrease the number of print editions to three a week starting May 6.
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