St. Paul Pioneer Press
The July 27, 2005 front page
of the Pioneer Press |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | MediaNews Group |
| Editor | Mike Burbach |
| Founded | 1849 |
| Headquarters | 10 River Park Plaza, 7th Floor St. Paul, Minnesota 55101  United States
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| Circulation | 208,280 Daily 284,507 Sunday (March 2013) |
| ISSN | 0892-1083 |
| Website | twincities.com |
The St. Paul Pioneer Press is a newspaper based in St. Paul, Minnesota, primarily serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Circulation is heaviest in the eastern metro region, including Ramsey, Dakota, and Washington counties, along with western Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Anoka County, Minnesota. The paper's main rival is the Star Tribune, based in neighboring Minneapolis. The Pioneer Press has been owned by MediaNews Group since April 2006.
The Pioneer Press traces its history to both the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesota's first daily newspaper (founded in 1849 by James M. Goodhue), and the Saint Paul Dispatch (launched in 1868). Ridder Publications acquired the Pioneer and the Dispatch in 1927. Ridder merged with Knight Publications to form Knight Ridder in 1974. The two papers were operated for many years as separate morning and evening papers, but in 1985 were merged into the all-day publication the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, which made the transition to a morning-only paper in 1990, when the words "and Dispatch" were dropped. The paper is sometimes called the "Pi Press", just as "Strib" is used for the Star Tribune.
From 1947 to 1949, the newspaper printed the comic strip Li'l Folks, by Twin Cities native Charles M. Schulz. This comic introduced a number of characters who would later return in 1950 in the syndicated comic strip Peanuts, including Charlie Brown and a dog strongly resembling Snoopy.
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