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The ''Tribune-Star'' is a seven-day morning
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based in Terre Haute, Indiana, covering the Wabash Valley area of
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. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings. Counties within the newspaper's coverage areas include
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, Greene, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties, Indiana, and Clark, Crawford and
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counties, Illinois. It was preceded by ''The Tribune''.


History

The ''Tribune'' was founded in December 1894, 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''. (The combined paper was known, at least briefly, as the ''Tribune-Gazette''.) The ''Star'' was founded in August 1903 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.) A 230-day strike shut down both the ''Tribune'' and ''Star'' in 1964-65. 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. In May 1983, the morning ''Star'' and afternoon ''Tribune'' were merged to become the morning-published ''Tribune-Star'', part of the nationwide trend of the period away from afternoon papers. In 1990, Ingersoll sold a number of papers including the ''Tribune-Star'' to Thomson Corporation. 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. 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.


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TribStar.comCNHI Website
{{CNHI, Tribune-Star Newspapers published in Indiana Mass media in Terre Haute, Indiana