Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Star Tribune front page, August 2, 2007
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Star Tribune Media Company LLC (Glen Taylor) |
| Publisher | Michael J. Klingensmith |
| Editor | Rene Sanchez |
| Opinion editor | Scott Gillespie |
| Founded | May 25, 1867 (as the Minneapolis Tribune) August 19, 1920 (as the Minneapolis Daily Star) |
| Headquarters | Star Tribune Building 650 3rd Ave S., Suite 1300 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Circulation | 288,315 Daily 581,063 Sunday |
| OCLC number | 43369847 |
| Website | www |
The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It originated as the Minneapolis Tribune in 1867 and the competing Minneapolis Daily Star in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s Minneapolis's competing newspapers were consolidated, with the Tribune published in the morning and the Star in the evening. They merged in 1982, creating the Star Tribune. After a tumultuous period in which the newspaper was sold and re-sold and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, it was purchased by local businessman Glen Taylor in 2014.
The Star Tribune serves Minneapolis and is distributed throughout the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the state of Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. It typically contains a mixture of national, international and local news, sports, business and lifestyle content. Journalists from the Star Tribune and its predecessor newspapers have won six Peabody Awards, including two in 2013. The newspaper's headquarters is in downtown Minneapolis.
The Star Tribune's roots date to the creation of the Minneapolis Daily Tribune by Colonel William S. King, William D. Washburn and Dorilus Morrison; the Tribune's first issue was published on May 25, 1867. The newspaper went through several different editors and publishers during its first two decades, including John T. Gilman, George K. Shaw, Albert Shaw and Alden J. Blethen. In 1878 the Minneapolis Evening Journal began publication, giving the Tribune its first competition. On November 30, 1889, the Tribune headquarters in downtown Minneapolis caught fire. Seven people were killed and 30 injured, and the building and presses were a total loss.
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