Ames Tribune

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The Ames Tribune
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The Ames Tribune, Sunday, July 26, 2015
Type Daily newspaper
(except Monday)
Owner(s) Gannett
Founded1868 (1868) as The Intelligencer
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters210 5th Street
Ames, Iowa 50010
Circulation 2,982 [1]
ISSN 1096-8202
Website amestrib.com

The Ames Tribune is a newspaper published Tuesday through Sunday based in Ames, Iowa. The newspaper is owned by Gannett.

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History

In 1986, the Tribune was bought by Michael Gartner and Gary Gerlach, two former executives at The Des Moines Register . [2] Gartner won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing at the Tribune. The Omaha World-Herald Company bought the Ames Tribune in 1999 from Gartner, Gerlach, and the estate of David Belin. [3] Stephens Media purchased the Tribune from the Omaha World-Herald Company in 2010. [4] [5] In 2015, the Stephens Media newspapers were sold to New Media Investment Group. [6] New Media acquired Gannett Company in 2019, making the Tribune a sibling publication to The Des Moines Register. [7]

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