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''The Bossier Press-Tribune'' is a
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serving
Bossier Parish Bossier Parish ( ; ) is a parish located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 census, the population was 128,746. The parish seat is Benton. The principal city is Bossier City, which is located east of the R ...
in northwestern
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. Published on Wednesdays, the ''Press-Tribute'' covers mostly local news but includes regional, state, and national coverage for its readership when warranted.


History

The origin of ''The Press-Tribune'' can be traced to 1940 when, as the weekly ''Bossier Tribune'', it was in competition with the ''Planters Press''. In 1945, T. L. Morris sold the ''Bossier Tribune'' to Larry Freeman, who was also the publisher of a
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newspaper in
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. In the latter 1970s, the ''Bossier Tribune'' and ''The Planters Press'' merged to become the ''Bossier Press-Tribune''. In the 1990s, Robert E. "Bob" Barton, the owner of ''The Press-Tribune'' at the time and who served in the
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from 1996 to 2000, purchased (from Wilton Corley) the ''Bossier Banner-Progress'', a 131-year-old weekly newspaper that served the
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in Benton. The publisher is David Arthur Specht, Jr. (born 1969) of Specht Newspapers, Inc. ''The Press-Tribune'' began daily publication in 2008, but has since been reduced to thrice-weekly publication. The sports editor is Russell Wayne Hedges, a son of football coach Lee Hedges of Shreveport. ''The Press-Tribune'' is a sister publication of the '' Minden Press-Herald'' in
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in neighboring
Webster Parish Webster Parish ( French: ''Paroisse de Webster'') is a parish located in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat and largest city is Minden. As of the 2020 census, the Webster Parish population was 36,967. Pu ...
, Louisiana.


References


External links


Bossier Press-Tribune website
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