Portland Tribune
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First issue, 2001
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| Type | Semi-weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Pamplin Media Group |
| Publisher | Mark Garber |
| Editor | Vance Tong |
| Staff writers | 15 (newsroom total, as of 2017) |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | 6605 S.E. Lake Road Portland, OR 97222-2161  United States
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| Circulation | 30,000 Tuesday, 60,000 Thursday |
| OCLC number | 46708462 |
| Website | portlandtribune.com |
The Portland Tribune is a free newspaper published twice weekly, each Tuesday and Thursday, in Portland, Oregon, United States.
The Tribune is part of the Pamplin Media Group, which publishes a number of community newspapers in the Portland metropolitan area, and also owns and operates the talk radio station KPAM, and several other radio stations throughout the Pacific Northwest. The Tribune has twice been chosen as the nation's best non-daily paper. Launched in 2001, the paper was published twice-weekly until 2008, when it was reduced to weekly, and returned to twice-weekly publication in 2014.
Portland businessman Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. announced his intention to found the paper in the summer of 2000. The first issue of the twice-weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays) paper was published February 9, 2001, joining The Oregonian, the city's only daily general interest newspaper, and the alternative weeklies Willamette Week and The Portland Mercury. At the time, it was a rare example of the expansion of print news, in a time when many cities were seeing newspapers merge or go out of business. But its launch preceded a significant national downturn in advertising sales, which posed difficulties for a startup newspaper. Eleven months after its launch, the Tribune cut back on home deliveries. The newspaper was reportedly losing money faster than anticipated after its first year. By late 2006, its newsroom staff had been reduced to 27.
On May 5, 2008, the paper announced it would switch effective immediately to a once-a-week print format, with a Thursday print edition (in place of Tuesday and Fridays) accompanied by daily updates to its website. In July 2009, "difficult economic conditions" led to the layoff of two reporters and the resignation of its managing editor, resulting in a newsroom staff of 14.
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