Minnesota Star Tribune
| File:MN ST.jpg The October 31, 2006 front page of the Star Tribune | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Avista Capital Partners |
| Publisher | Par Ridder |
| Editor | Nancy Barnes |
| Founded | 1867 (as the Minneapolis Tribune) |
| Headquarters | 425 Portland Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55488  United States |
| Circulation | 361,172 Daily 596,333 Sunday[1] |
| Website | StarTribune.com |
- There is also the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming.
The Star Tribune (or Strib, as it is often referred to) is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is published seven days each week in an edition for the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. A statewide version is also available across Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota. In 2006, the paper's Sunday circulation was 596,333 copies, and 361,172 on weekdays.[1] The paper's largest competitor is the St. Paul-based Pioneer Press, though it competes with a number of other papers in its wide circulation area.
History
Today's Star Tribune is the product of the merger in 1982 between the Minneapolis Star, an evening newspaper, and the Minneapolis Tribune, a morning newspaper published by the same company.
Several earlier mergers preceded that one by many years, as outlined below. The Minneapolis Tribune was founded in 1867, and operated by the Murphy family between 1891 and 1941. The Minneapolis Journal was founded in 1878 as an evening paper. The Minneapolis Times was a morning paper starting in 1899; it was purchased by the Tribune in 1905 and its name was used in various forms until 1948. Finally the Minnesota Daily Star began printing in 1920, and later became the Minneapolis Star, distributed in the evening.
The Cowles family bought the Star in 1935 and the Journal in 1939 and the two were merged into the Star-Journal, soon truncated to Star. The Cowles family bought the Tribune in 1941. The papers were operated as separate morning and evening papers. In 1982, the papers were merged into the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and in 1987 adopted the present name Star Tribune and the slogan "Newspaper of the Twin Cities." In 1998 The McClatchy Company purchased Cowles Media Company and sold off its other holdings, keeping the Star Tribune.
In 1987, the paper had separate Minneapolis, St. Paul, and statewide editions but today it has two editions: a Minneapolis-St. Paul metro-area edition, and a Midwest edition covering news throughout Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.
On December 26 2006, McClatchy Co sold the paper to private-equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $530 million, less than half of what McClatchy paid for the paper in 1998, when it bought the Star Tribune from Cowles Media for $1.2 billion.[2]
The Star Tribune has a somewhat liberal editorial orientation, and is sometimes called "the Red Star" (an allusion to the Communist symbol) by some Minnesotans.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Text of Star Tribune press release". startribune.com. 2006-12-26. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Ellison, Sarah (2006-12-27). "McClatchy's Minneapolis Sale Aids Web Efforts". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. p. A3. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
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