The ''Tribune-Star'' is a seven-day morning

daily newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...

based in

Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute ( ) is a city in Vigo County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 58,389 and Terre Haute metropolitan area, its metropolitan area had a populati ...

, covering the

Wabash Valley The Wabash Valley is a region located in sections of both Illinois and Indiana. It is named for the Wabash River and, as the name is typically used, spans the middle to the middle-lower portion of the river's valley and is centered at Terre Haute, ...

area of

Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...

and

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...

. It is owned by

Community Newspaper Holdings CNHI, LLC (formerly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.) is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin,

. Counties within the newspaper's coverage areas include

Clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...

, Greene, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and

Vigo Vigo (, ; ) is a city and Municipalities in Spain, municipality in the province of province of Pontevedra, Pontevedra, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest ...

counties, Indiana, and Clark, Crawford and

Edgar Edgar is a commonly used masculine English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Edgar'' (composed of ''wikt:en:ead, ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''Gar (spear), gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the Late Midd ...

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 Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reut ...

. 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.

References

External links

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