Tribune-Star Explained

Tribune-Star
Type:Daily newspaper
Format:Broadsheet
Price:USD .75/Daily $1.75/Sunday
Owners:Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Publisher:Robyn McCloskey
Editor:Max Jones
Circulation:27,895 daily
Circulation Date:2007
Circulation Ref:[1]
Headquarters:2800 Poplar St., Suite 37A, Terre Haute, Indiana 47803 United States
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] It was preceded by The Tribune.

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 August 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 the Tribune 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]

On Sept. 2, 2023, the paper announced it would switch to delivery via the U.S. Postal Service starting Oct. 3. At that time, 40% of subscribers already received the paper via mail.[16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.cnhi-can.com/circulation CNHI-CAN Circulation
  2. http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/14/887/2226 Terre Haute Tribune Star
  3. http://www.tribstar.com/contactus/local_story_353113033.html TribStar.com: Contact Us
  4. Web site: The Toledo News-Bee - Google News Archive Search. December 14, 2014.
  5. Web site: Tribune-Star Online/Columns/Historical/April 14, 2002. specials.tribstar.com. December 14, 2014.
  6. Web site: The Telegraph-Herald - Google News Archive Search. December 14, 2014.
  7. Web site: Terre Haute Star Buys the Post. - Article - NYTimes.com. select.nytimes.com. December 14, 2014.
  8. Book: Terre Haute: Queen City of the Wabash. McCormick, M.. 2005. Arcadia. 9780738524061. 109. December 14, 2014.
  9. Book: Terre Haute & Vigo County in Vintage Postcards. Jerse, D.W.. Becker, J.R.. 2001. Arcadia. 9780738507477. 58. December 14, 2014.
  10. Web site: Lewiston Evening Journal - Google News Archive Search. December 14, 2014.
  11. Web site: The Madison Courier - Google News Archive Search. December 14, 2014.
  12. Web site: The Madison Courier - Google News Archive Search. December 14, 2014.
  13. Web site: Sun Setting On Another Afternoon Newspaper - Chicago Tribune. 14 July 1999 . articles.chicagotribune.com. December 14, 2014.
  14. Web site: The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search. December 14, 2014.
  15. Web site: Sunday Times-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search. December 14, 2014.
  16. Web site: 2023-09-02 . Note to Readers: Newspaper delivery transitioning to mail beginning in October; print days shifting to Tuesday-Saturday . 2023-09-17 . Terre Haute Tribune-Star . en.