Tribune-Star

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.

Tribune-Star

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Publisher	Robyn McCloskey
Editor	Max Jones
Headquarters	2800 Poplar St., Suite 37A , Terre Haute, Indiana 47803 United States
Circulation	27,895 daily (as of 2007)^[1]
Website	tribstar.com

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.)

 

Advertisement for the launch of the Terre Haute Morning Star, Aug. 28, 1903.

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]

References

1. CNHI-CAN Circulation 2007-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 18, 2007.
2. Terre Haute Tribune Star at Mondo Times, accessed January 4, 2007.
3. TribStar.com: Contact Us, accessed January 18, 2007.
4. "The Toledo News-Bee - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
5. "Tribune-Star Online/Columns/Historical/April 14, 2002". specials.tribstar.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
6. "The Telegraph-Herald - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
7. "Terre Haute Star Buys the Post. - Article - NYTimes.com". select.nytimes.com. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
8. McCormick, M. (2005). Terre Haute: Queen City of the Wabash. Arcadia. p. 109. ISBN 9780738524061. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
9. Jerse, D.W.; Becker, J.R. (2001). Terre Haute & Vigo County in Vintage Postcards. Arcadia. p. 58. ISBN 9780738507477. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
10. "Lewiston Evening Journal - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
11. "The Madison Courier - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
12. "The Madison Courier - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
13. "Sun Setting On Another Afternoon Newspaper - Chicago Tribune". articles.chicagotribune.com. 14 July 1999. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
14. "The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
15. "Sunday Times-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
16. "Note to Readers: Newspaper delivery transitioning to mail beginning in October; print days shifting to Tuesday-Saturday". Terre Haute Tribune-Star. 2023-09-02. Retrieved 2023-09-17.

External links

• TribStar.com
• CNHI Website