Mail Tribune
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | GateHouse Media |
| Publisher | Grady Singletary |
| Editor | Cathy Noah |
| Founded | April 2, 1907 |
| Headquarters | 111 North Fir Street, Medford, Oregon 97501 United States |
| Circulation | 25,000 |
| Website | mailtribune |
The Mail Tribune is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Medford, Oregon, United States that serves Jackson County, Oregon, and adjacent areas of northern California.
Its coverage area centers on Medford and Ashland and includes many small communities in Jackson County. The newspaper also covers Central Point, Talent, Eagle Point and Phoenix, as well as Jacksonville and other cities in the Rogue Valley.
George Putnam bought the Medford Tribune and two smaller weekly newspapers on April 2, 1907. In 1910, he purchased the Medford Mail and combined it with the Tribune to create the MailTribune. He later sold the paper in order to purchase the Salem Capital Journal.
The newspaper is now owned by Local Media Group, whose predecessor company purchased the Medford paper in 1973. It was awarded the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Service, because of its coverage of corrupt politicians. Its sister paper in Ashland, the Ashland Daily Tidings, is also part of Local Media Group.
On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former Wall Street Journal editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition.
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