Minnesota Star Tribune
"The Heart and Voice of the North" | |
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Star Tribune Media Company LLC (Glen Taylor) |
Publisher | Steve Grove |
Editor | Suki Dardarian |
Opinion editor | Phil Morris |
Founded |
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Headquarters | Star Tribune Building 650 3rd Ave S. Suite 1300 Minneapolis, MN United States |
Website | startribune |
The Minnesota Star Tribune, is a daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh-largest newspaper in the United States and the primary news source in Minnesota.
It was created in 1867 as "Minneapolis Tribune" and competed with Minneapolis Daily Star in 1920.[1] The papers merged into Star Tribune in 1982. In 2024, the paper was renamed to The Minnesota Star Tribune.[2] Journalists from Star Tribune have won seven Pulitzer Prizes.
History
[change | change source]Minneapolis Tribune
[change | change source]The newspaper was created to have the Republican Party in one newspaper.[3] On November 30, 1889, downtown Minneapolis's Tribune headquarters caught fire. Seven people were killed and 30 injured, and the building and presses were a total loss.[4][5]
In 1891, Tribune was purchased for $450,000 (equivalent to $12 million in 2020[6]). This helped to get rid of the companies debts. In 1905, Tribune purchased The Minneapolis Times, one of their biggest competitors.[7]
Awards
[change | change source]Pre-Star Tribune Pulitzer Prizes:
- 1948: Nat S. Finney (Minneapolis Tribune), National Reporting[8]
- 1959: William Seaman (Minneapolis Star), Photography[9]
- 1968: Nathan K. (Nick) Kotz (Des Moines Register and Minneapolis Tribune), National Reporting[10]
Post-Star Tribune journalists have won three Pulitzers:
- 1990: Lou Kilzer and Chris Ison, Investigative Reporting[11]
- 2013: Steve Sack, Editorial Cartooning[12]
- 2013: Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt, Local Reporting[13]
In 2021, the staff of the Star Tribune won a Pulitzer prize for coverage of the murder of George Floyd.[14]

References
[change | change source]- ↑ "| Minnesota Historical Society". www.mnhs.org. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
- ↑ Robertson, Katie. "Defying Crisis in Local News, the Star Tribune Expands". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Minneapolis Tribune". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
- ↑ Morison, Bradley (1966). Sunlight on Your Doorstep: The Minneapolis Tribune's First Hundred Years. Minneapolis: Ross & Haines.
- ↑ "About Star tribune. (Minneapolis, MN) 1999-current". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
- ↑ Thomas, Ryland; Williamson, Samuel H. (2018). "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved January 5, 2018. United States Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the Measuring Worth series.
- ↑ Morison, Bradley (1966). Sunlight on Your Doorstep: The Minneapolis Tribune's First Hundred Years. Minneapolis: Ross & Haines.Morison, Bradley (1966).
- ↑ "1948 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes.
- ↑ "1959 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes.
- ↑ "1968 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes.
- ↑ "1990 Winners and Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes.
- ↑ "The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Editorial Cartooning". The Pulitzer Prizes.
- ↑ "The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Local Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes.
- ↑ Allen, Jonathan; Borter, Gabriella (June 11, 2021). "Reuters, New York Times win Pulitzers for coverage of racial injustice, COVID-19". Reuters.com. Retrieved June 13, 2021.