Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The March 1, 2012 front page of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Tribune-Review Publishing Company |
| Publisher | Richard Mellon Scaife |
| Founded | 1811 (In 1992 became metro-wide) |
| Headquarters | 503 Martindale St. 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212 United States |
| Circulation | 187,875 Daily 202,181 Sunday |
| Website | triblive.com |
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," was the second largest daily printed newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States until it transitioned to an all digital format on December 1, 2016. Founded on August 22, 1811 as the Greensburg Gazette and in 1889 consolidated with several papers into the Greensburg Tribune-Review, the paper circulated only in the eastern suburban counties of Westmoreland and parts of Indiana and Fayette until May, 1992 when it began serving all of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area after a strike at the two Pittsburgh dailies, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Press, deprived the city of a newspaper for several months.
The Tribune-Review Publishing Company was owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, until his death in July 2014. Scaife was a major funder of conservative organizations, including the Arkansas Project. Accordingly, the Tribune-Review has maintained a conservative editorial stance, contrasting with the more liberal Post-Gazette. In addition to its flagship paper, the company publishes 17 weekly community newspapers, the Pittsburgh Pennysaver, as well as TribLIVE.com and TribTotalMedia.com.
The paper first began as the Gazette on August 22, 1811. After a series of name changes and mergers it became the Greensburg Daily Tribune in 1889. In 1924, it and the Greensburg Morning Review, launched by David J. Berry in 1903, consolidated their interests under a single ownership. Both papers continued separate publication until 1955, when they merged to form the Greensburg Tribune-Review. Scaife bought the Tribune-Review in 1970. Scaife was a decade early in trying to unarm the Post-Gazette. In 1981–82, he started a short-lived eastern suburbs paper, The Daily-Sunday Tribune.
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