Arizona Daily Star
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Lee Enterprises |
| Publisher | John M. Humenik |
| Editor | Bobbie Jo Buel |
| Founded | 1879 |
| Circulation | 96,682 weekdays 116,010 Saturdays 154,715 Sundays in 2012[1] |
| ISSN | 0888-546X |
| Official website | azstarnet.com |
The Arizona Daily Star is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson and surrounding districts of southern Arizona in the United States. The paper was purchased by Pulitzer in 1971; Lee Enterprises bought Pulitzer in 2005.
The Star was in a joint operating agreement with the Tucson Citizen, a smaller paper owned by Gannett (and was Tucson's afternoon paper six days per week, except Sunday, when the Star published Tucson's only Sunday paper), until that paper became online only. The two newspapers, under TNI Partners, shared business and production operations but maintained separate newsrooms and editorial staffs.
In 1981, Star reporters Clark Hallas and Robert B. Lowe won a Pulitzer Prize for their stories about recruiting violations by University of Arizona football coach Tony Mason.
In 2012, the newspaper ran a popular series called 100 Days of Science by reporter Tom Beal. It was later turned into an ebook. Other popular series run in the "Star" are Tucson Oddity which has run for several years and Street Smarts which launched in mid-year 2012 by reporter David Leighton. The Star currently does not have a bureau in the state capital, Phoenix, and instead relies on an outside news service.
See also[edit]
- C.H. Garrigues, writer
References[edit]
- ^ "FAS-FAX Report: Circulation Averages for the Six Months Ended March 31, 2012". Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Official website (Mobile)
- Today's Arizona Daily Star front page at the Newseum website
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