Tribune-Star
{{Short description|American newspaper in Indiana, founded 1894}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Tribune-Star
| image =
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| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation =
| ceased publication =
| price = USD .75/Daily $1.75/Sunday
| owners = Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
| publisher = Robyn McCloskey
| editor = Max Jones
| language =
| political =
| circulation = 27,895 daily
| circulation_date = 2007
| circulation_ref = {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070212191101/http://www.cnhi-can.com/circulation CNHI-CAN Circulation]}}, figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 18, 2007.
| headquarters = 2800 Poplar St., Suite 37A , Terre Haute, Indiana 47803 United States
| ISSN =
| website = [http://www.tribstar.com/ 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.[http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/14/887/2226 Terre Haute Tribune Star] at Mondo Times, accessed January 4, 2007. Counties within the newspaper's coverage areas include Clay, Greene, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties, Indiana, and Clark, Crawford and Edgar counties, Illinois.[http://www.tribstar.com/contactus/local_story_353113033.html TribStar.com: Contact Us], accessed January 18, 2007. It was preceded by The Tribune.
History
The Tribune was founded in December 1894,{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B_ZXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GEUNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6586,3629646&dq=|title=The Toledo News-Bee - Google News Archive Search|access-date=December 14, 2014}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://specials.tribstar.com/columns/Historical/2002/April14.html|title=Tribune-Star Online/Columns/Historical/April 14, 2002|publisher=specials.tribstar.com|access-date=December 14, 2014}} (The combined paper was known, at least briefly, as the Tribune-Gazette.)
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The Star was founded in August 1903{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q7xBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tqkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1083,1614074&dq=|title=The Telegraph-Herald - Google News Archive Search|access-date=December 14, 2014}} 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.){{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/05/05/archives/terre-haute-star-buys-the-post.html|title=Terre Haute Star Buys the Post. - Article - NYTimes.com|publisher=select.nytimes.com|access-date=December 14, 2014}}{{cite book|title=Terre Haute: Queen City of the Wabash|author=McCormick, M.|date=2005|publisher=Arcadia|isbn=9780738524061|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaOr8to39F0C|page=109|access-date=December 14, 2014}}{{cite book|title=Terre Haute & Vigo County in Vintage Postcards|author1=Jerse, D.W.|author2=Becker, J.R.|date=2001|publisher=Arcadia|isbn=9780738507477|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvZ39oC1z6MC|page=58|access-date=December 14, 2014}}
A 230-day strike shut down both the Tribune and Star in 1964-65.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hpkgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VGgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1216,2060474&dq=|title=Lewiston Evening Journal - Google News Archive Search|access-date=December 14, 2014}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ecVJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uhANAAAAIBAJ&pg=5831,2207149&dq=|title=The Madison Courier - Google News Archive Search|access-date=December 14, 2014}} In May 1983, the morning Star and afternoon Tribune were merged to become the morning-published Tribune-Star,{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B8NJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uBANAAAAIBAJ&pg=5937,5037441&dq=|title=The Madison Courier - Google News Archive Search|access-date=December 14, 2014}} part of the nationwide trend of the period away from afternoon papers.{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/07/14/sun-setting-on-another-afternoon-newspaper/|title=Sun Setting On Another Afternoon Newspaper - Chicago Tribune|date=14 July 1999 |publisher=Chicago Tribune|access-date=December 14, 2014}}
In 1990, Ingersoll sold a number of papers including the Tribune-Star to Thomson Corporation.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UGcaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BywEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1351,2392132&dq=|title=The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search|access-date=December 14, 2014}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rvFDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-a8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1245,4765373&dq=|title=Sunday Times-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search|access-date=December 14, 2014}}
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.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-02 |title=Note to Readers: Newspaper delivery transitioning to mail beginning in October; print days shifting to Tuesday-Saturday |url=https://www.tribstar.com/news/local_news/note-to-readers-newspaper-delivery-transitioning-to-mail-beginning-in-october-print-days-shifting-to/article_69baecca-48e1-11ee-a9ea-a3e39937431d.html |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Terre Haute Tribune-Star |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.TribStar.com TribStar.com]
- [http://www.cnhi.com CNHI Website]
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