The ''Duluth News Tribune'' (known locally as ''The Tribune'' or ''DNT'') is a newspaper based in
Duluth, Minnesota
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. While circulation is heaviest in the
Twin Ports metropolitan area, delivery extends into northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and Michigan's
Upper Peninsula.
The paper has a limited distribution in
Thunder Bay
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The ''News Tribune'' has been owned by
Forum Communications since 2006.
Publication and ownership 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.
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
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's ''Superior Tribune'' to move his paper across the canal to Duluth.
This owner, Robert C. Mitchell, published the renamed ''Duluth Tribune'' on May 4, 1870. The ''Duluth Tribune'' was soon renamed the ''Duluth Daily Tribune''. Meanwhile, ''The Duluth Minnesotian'' merged with another local newspaper, the ''Duluth Weekly Herald,'' to become ''The Duluth Minnesotian-Herald'' in 1875, later dropping "Minnesotian" to become an evening paper, ''The Duluth Herald''.
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.
The pair were merged in 1982 to form the ''News-Tribune & Herald'', shortened simply to ''Duluth News-Tribune'' in 1988.
In 2000, the hyphen was omitted, leaving ''Duluth News Tribune'' as the paper's title.
In 2006,
The McClatchy Company
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purchased Knight Ridder Inc., acquiring the ''Duluth News Tribune'' in the process.
The McClatchy Company decided to sell 12 of Knight Ridder's 32 daily newspapers, including the ''Duluth News Tribune'' and Minneapolis' ''
Star Tribune
The ''Star Tribune'' is the largest newspaper in Minnesota. It originated as the ''Minneapolis Tribune'' in 1867 and the competing ''Minneapolis Daily Star'' in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, Minneapolis's competing newspapers were consolida ...
'', due to a company acquisition philosophy limiting purchases to "newspapers in fast-growing markets."
, a Fargo-based media firm, announced the purchase of the ''News Tribune'' on June 7, 2006.
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.
Notable people
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Chris Monroe – cartoonist of weekly comic strip ''Violet Days'' (Monroe retired the comic in February 2018.)
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John L. Morrison – reporter at ''Duluth Evening Herald'' and labor department editor at ''Duluth News Tribune''
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Robert Ridder – reporter at Tribune, later a director of
Knight Ridder media
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Robin Washington – journalist and ''Duluth News Tribune'' executive editor from 2010-2014
See also
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List of newspapers in Minnesota
References
External links
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Newspapers published in Minnesota
Forum Communications Company
Mass media in Duluth, Minnesota
Publications established in 1869
1869 establishments in Minnesota