Tribune-Star

Tribune-Star
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Publisher B.J. Riley
Editor Max Jones
Headquarters 222 South Seventh Street, Terre Haute, Indiana 47807 USA
Circulation 27,895 daily[1]
Website tribstar.com

The Tribune-Star is a seven-day morning daily newspaper based in Terre Haute, Indiana, covering the Wabash Valley area of Indiana and Illinois. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings.[2]

Counties within the newspaper's coverage areas include Clay, Greene, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties, Indiana, and Clark, Crawford and Edgar counties, Illinois.[3]

History

The Tribune was founded in December 1894,[4] with Republican George B. Lockwood among its co-founders. James Solomon Barcus bought the paper in 1902. In 1904, Barcus also bought the Terre Haute Gazette (which dated to around 1869) and merged it into the Tribune.[5] (The combined paper was known, at least briefly, as the Tribune-Gazette.)

The Star was founded in 1903[6] and was bought by the owners of the Tribune in 1931. (The Terre Haute Post, founded in 1906, was acquired by the Star in 1929.)[7][8][9]

A 230-day strike shut down both theTribune and Star in 1964-65.[10]

The Tribune and Star were sold to Ingersoll Publications in late 1982. Prior to the sale, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology owned a controlling interest in the papers.[11] In May 1983, the morning Star and afternoon Tribune were merged to become the morning-published Tribune-Star,[12] part of the nationwide trend of the period away from afternoon papers.[13]

In 1990, Ingersoll sold a number of papers including the Tribune-Star to Thomson Corporation.[14] In 2000, Community purchased the Tribune-Star and 16 other papers from Thomson, as a part of Thompson's exit from the U.S. newspaper business.[15]

References

  1. ↑ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 18, 2007.
  2. ↑ Terre Haute Tribune Star at Mondo Times, accessed January 4, 2007.
  3. ↑ TribStar.com: Contact Us, accessed January 18, 2007.
  4. ↑ "The Toledo News-Bee - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Tribune-Star Online/Columns/Historical/April 14, 2002". specials.tribstar.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Telegraph-Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Terre Haute Star Buys the Post. - Article - NYTimes.com". select.nytimes.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  8. ↑ McCormick, M. (2005). Terre Haute: Queen City of the Wabash. Arcadia. p. 109. ISBN 9780738524061. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ Jerse, D.W.; Becker, J.R. (2001). Terre Haute & Vigo County in Vintage Postcards. Arcadia. p. 58. ISBN 9780738507477. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Lewiston Evening Journal - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  11. ↑ "The Madison Courier - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ "The Madison Courier - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Sun Setting On Another Afternoon Newspaper - Chicago Tribune". articles.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  14. ↑ "The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Sunday Times-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.

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