Duluth News Tribune

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Duluth News Tribune
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Forum Communications
PublisherNeal Ronquist [1]
EditorRick Lubbers [2]
Founded1869
Language American English
Headquarters424 W. First St.
Duluth, Minnesota 55802
CityDuluth
CountryUnited States
Circulation 22,695(as of 2024) [3]
ISSN 0896-9418
OCLC number 17221576
Website duluthnewstribune.com

The Duluth News Tribune (known locally as The Tribune or DNT) is a newspaper based in Duluth, Minnesota. While circulation is heaviest in the Twin Ports metropolitan area, delivery extends into northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. [2] The paper has a limited distribution in Thunder Bay, Ontario. [2] The News Tribune has been owned by Forum Communications since 2006.

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History

The present incarnation of the Duluth News Tribune is the outcome of the merger and takeover of several earlier publications. Duluth's first weekly newspaper, The Duluth Minnesotian, was first published by Dr. Thomas Preston Foster, an editor of the St. Paul Minnesotian, on April 24, 1869. [4] [5] After a year of The Duluth Minnesotian publishing unfavorable articles about city services and local politics, Duluth's Mayor Joshua Carter and local investor Jay Cooke invited the owner of Superior, Wisconsin's Superior Tribune to move his paper across the canal to Duluth. [5] This owner, Robert C. Mitchell, published the renamed Duluth Tribune on May 4, 1870. [6] The Duluth Tribune was soon renamed the Duluth Daily Tribune. [7] Meanwhile, The Duluth Minnesotian merged with another local newspaper, the Duluth Weekly Herald, to become The Duluth Minnesotian-Herald in 1875, [8] later dropping "Minnesotian" to become an evening paper, The Duluth Herald. [9]

A U.S. soldier reads the Duluth News Tribune while serving in Italy, 26 January 1945 Cpl. Alfred B. Bergher, 15 E. 8th St., Duluth, Minnesota, reads a copy of his hometown newspaper. 26 January, 1945. (52612481919).jpg
A U.S. soldier reads the Duluth News Tribune while serving in Italy, 26 January 1945

The first News-Tribune was created as a result of the merger of the Duluth Tribune and another daily paper, the Duluth News in 1892. In 1929, this morning paper was purchased by The Duluth Herald. Ridder Publications, later renamed Knight Ridder Inc., bought both papers in 1936. [2] The pair were merged in 1982 to form the News-Tribune & Herald, shortened simply to Duluth News-Tribune in 1988. [2] In 2000, the hyphen was omitted, leaving Duluth News Tribune as the paper's title. [2]

In 2006, The McClatchy Company purchased Knight Ridder Inc., acquiring the Duluth News Tribune in the process. [10] The McClatchy Company decided to sell 12 of Knight Ridder's 32 daily newspapers, including the Duluth News Tribune and Minneapolis' Star Tribune , due to a company acquisition philosophy limiting purchases to "newspapers in fast-growing markets." [10] Forum Communications, a Fargo-based media firm, announced the purchase of the News Tribune on June 7, 2006. [11] Forum Communications publishes a number of newspapers in the region, including The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, the Rochester Post Bulletin and the Grand Forks Herald .

The Duluth News Tribune is available daily in an on-line form, and is printed twice weekly for mail delivery on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

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  1. ↑ "Ronquist named publisher of Duluth News Tribune". Duluth News Tribune. Duluth News Tribune and Forum Communications Company. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Newspapers: Duluth News Tribune". Forum Communications Company. Forum Communications Co. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Minnesota Newspaper Directory 2024" (PDF). Minnesota Newspaper Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  4. ↑ "About The Duluth Minnesotian. (Duluth, Lake Superior, [Minn.]) 1869-1875". Library of Congress. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  5. 1 2 Krebs, John E., ed. (1994). Duluth News-Tribune Impressions: 125 Years. Duluth, MN: Duluth News-Tribune. pp. 4–5. ISBN   9785555552310.
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