Star Tribune
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description | daily newspaper |
publishing company | Avista Capital Partners |
First edition | 1867 |
Frequency of publication | Mondays to Sundays |
Sold edition | Mon – Sat: 251,822 copies (as of 2019) Sun: 534,750 (as of 2008) copies |
( Top 10 US Daily Newspapers 2008 (PDF; 318 kB)) |
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Editor-in-chief | Nancy Barnes |
editor | Chris Harte |
Web link | startribune.com |
The Star Tribune (also known as Star trib or Strib ) is a national daily newspaper based in Minneapolis , Minnesota . It is the highest-circulation daily newspaper in the US state of Minnesota and appears seven days a week.
In addition to an issue for the Minneapolis-St. Paul also has a state edition that is also available across the border in parts of Wisconsin , Iowa , South Dakota, and North Dakota . Biggest competitor is the in St. Paul local Pioneer Press .
history
The Star Tribune was created in 1982 through the merger of the evening newspaper Minneapolis Star and the Minneapolis Tribune , a daily newspaper of the same company.
The origins of the newspaper go back to the founding of three daily newspapers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Minneapolis Tribune was founded in 1867. The Minneapolis Journal was first published as an evening paper in 1878. Another daily newspaper, the Minneapolis Times , was created in 1899 and was bought by the Minneapolis Tribune in 1905 . The evening paper Minnesota Daily Star first appeared in 1920, later renamed the Minneapolis Star .
In 1935 the Cowles family bought the Minnesota Star , and four years later the Minneapolis Journal . Both newspapers were merged and henceforth appeared as the Star Journal before the paper was renamed the Minneapolis Star . In 1941, the Cowles family also bought the Minneapolis Tribune . In 1982 both newspapers were merged and continued as the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and renamed the Star Tribune in 1987 . In 1998, The McClatchy Company took over Cowles Media Company for around US $ 1.2 billion and became the owner of the newspaper. At the end of 2006, the investment company Avista Capital Partners bought the shares in the newspaper for 530 million US dollars. Due to a high level of debt, the newspaper company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 15, 2009 .
Web links
- Official website (English)
- History of the Star Tribune (English)