The East Valley Tribune is a newspaper concentrated on cities within the East Valley region of metropolitan Phoenix , including Mesa , Tempe , Chandler , Gilbert , and Queen Creek .
31-877: Formerly a daily newspaper, the Tribune resulted from the combination of local newspapers acquired by Cox Enterprises : The Tempe Daily News , the Mesa Tribune , the Gilbert Tribune , the Scottsdale Progress , and the Chandler Arizonan . Attorney Alfred P. Shewman and Judge W.D. Morton founded Mesa's first newspaper, the Evening Weekly Free Press, in 1891. In 1899, Judge W.D. Morton sold out to Shewman, who died in 1901. Frank T. Pomeroy and Harry D. Haines bought
62-760: A host of global businesses and brands serving auto dealers, manufacturers and financial institutions. Cox Media Group (CMG) is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company. In 2019, Cox Enterprises reached an agreement with Apollo Global Management to sell a majority interest in Cox Media Group's broadcast television stations, including the company's radio, newspaper, and TV properties in Ohio, and its local OTT advertising subsidiary – Gamut. Smart Media from Cox. based in New York. On February 10, 2020, Cox Enterprises bought back
93-616: A result, on November 2, 2009, the East Valley Tribune announced that it would cease operations on December 31, 2009. However, a new buyer was found, and the Tribune , the Daily News-Sun , the Ahwatukee Foothills News , Glendale/Peoria Today and Surprise Today were sold to 10/13 Communications LLC, an affiliate of Boulder, Colorado-based Thirteenth Street Media. The transaction was approved by
124-568: A single broadband network. Cox entered the automotive industry in 1965 with the purchase of Black Book . Three years later, Manheim was purchased by Cox as well. In the 1980s, Manheim acquired its first non-U.S. auction in Toronto, Canada , making Cox an international company. In 1997, Autotrader.com was founded revolutionizing the way people buy and sell used cars. In 2014, Cox Enterprises brought its automotive-related businesses (which by then included vAuto and NextGear Capital) together under
155-459: A total of $ 1.5 million, and the Cox Video unit has also acquired the rights to produce video adaptations of the magazines and exercise regulations of Joe Weider , which included Muscle & Fitness , Flex and Men's Fitness & Shape , and Peter Bieler acting as executive producer on tapes produced by Cox Video, which also served as executive vice president of the studio, and the company
186-807: A week on Sunday with a circulation of more than 140,000 copies and more than 405,000 weekly readers. Eighty-five percent of the newspapers are delivered directly to the driveways of East Valley families, while the remaining 15 percent are distributed at high-traffic locations and outlets. Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises, Inc. is an American privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta , Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $ 21 billion in total revenue. Its major operating subsidiaries are Cox Media Group , Cox Communications , and Cox Automotive . The company's major national brands include AutoTrader , Kelley Blue Book , Manheim Auctions and more. Through Cox Automotive ,
217-538: Is planning on to do regular releases that sometimes make use of the magazine's names and will be positioned as companions to Wieder's widely-distributed equipment, and the MHE comedies ranked at the $ 100,000 range and the Fox Hills tapes ranked at the $ 100,000 range. Over the ensuing decades, Cox made pioneering investments and became the first company to bundle telephone, highspeed internet and digital cable television over
248-502: The Mesa Tribune in 1986, succeeding Roger Kintzel. In December 1996, Cox Newspapers sold its newspaper holdings to Thomson Newspapers . In May 1997, under the leadership of its publisher, Karen Wittmer, all five newspapers were combined into one newspaper, The Tribune. The paper served eastern Maricopa County with a Scottsdale edition for the northern communities. In December 1997, the Daily News-Sun in Sun City, Arizona, joined
279-644: The Tribune as part of its Phoenix SMG (Strategic Marketing Group). The Ahwatukee Foothills News , which covered news on the southeastern border of Phoenix, joined in November 1998. In December 1999, The Tribune was renamed the East Valley Tribune and, in August 2000, Thomson Newspapers sold its Arizona newspaper holdings to Freedom Communications , Inc. of Irvine, California On October 6, 2008, publisher Julie Moreno announced that, as of 2009,
310-423: The Tribune scaled back its publication schedule from four days a week to three days (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday), then to two days (Wednesday and Sunday), and finally to just a Sunday Edition. In late January 2016, Scottsdale-based Times Media Group , established by entrepreneur Steve Strickbine in 1997 and the owner of 15 local community news publications including College Times , Scottsdale Airpark News and
341-709: The governor of Ohio . He was the Democratic Party candidate for president of the United States in the presidential election of 1920 , running unsuccessfully on a ticket that included Franklin D. Roosevelt as the vice presidential candidate. In 1935, at the urging of Governor Cox's son James M. Cox Jr. , Cox entered the radio business starting with WHIO in Dayton. Governor Cox purchased The Atlanta Journal in 1939 as well as radio station WSB . On September 29, 1948, Cox's WSB-TV , later referred to as
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#1732773010749372-524: The "Eyes of the South", aired the first television broadcast in Atlanta. WHIO-TV in Ohio's Miami Valley soon followed, airing its first broadcasts on February 23, 1949. In 1950, Governor Cox purchased The Atlanta Constitution , and in 1962 his son purchased three cable television systems in central Pennsylvania with a total of 11,800 subscribers. The two combined their broadcasting and cable businesses into
403-698: The Cox Automotive name. Cox Communications is the third-largest U.S. cable company, serving approximately 6 million residences and businesses. It provides advanced digital video, Internet, telephone and home security and automation services over its own nationwide IP network. Cox Communications formed an alliance with the Cleveland Clinic to take Healthcare to the home in February 2015. The company has also been deploying residential gigabit internet service. In 2019, Cox Communications earned
434-611: The No. 11 spot on the 2019 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list. This marks the fourteenth time the company has been recognized among the nation's corporate diversity leaders. Cox Automotive is a provider of "vehicle remarketing services and digital marketing and software for automotive dealers and consumers." Cox Automotive brands include Manheim, Clutch Technologies, Dealer-Auction Ltd, AutoTrader , Kelley Blue Book , vAuto, Dealer.com, Dealertrack, NextGear Capital, Xtime, Vinsolutions, Dickinson Fleet Services, FleetNet America, and
465-810: The Ohio newspapers it sold to Apollo Global Management after the FCC required Apollo to reduce the daily newspapers to 3-day publication or sell them. Cox announced the newspapers would continue 7-day publication. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , in addition to the media agency Ideabar, will continue to be part of Cox Enterprises. Cox Conserves is the company's national sustainability program that focuses on alternative energy, community investment, employee engagement, energy conservation, waste diversion, recycling, and water conservation. Since its launch in 2007, Cox Enterprises has invested more than $ 120 million in over 400 sustainability and conservation projects through Cox Conserves to drive positive environmental change within
496-742: The bankruptcy judge in March 2010, as part of Freedom's reorganization process. The Tribune continued operations while the sale was pending. 10/13 Communications already owned a free-distribution weekly called the Explorer , serving Oro Valley and Marana in north suburban Tucson . In November 2010, it was announced that as a result of the sale, the Tribune's main offices, including all editorial and advertising operations, would relocate by early 2011 to office space at Fountainhead Corporate Park in Tempe, adjacent to Interstate 10 and Broadway Road . Circulation
527-578: The communities of Catalina Foothills , Casas Adobes , Catalina , SaddleBrooke, Tortolita , Oracle , along with neighborhoods in the City of Tucson and Pima County . It is the 9th largest newspaper in Arizona , with a circulation of 47,475. In 2007, it was sold to Thirteenth Street Media. It became part of 10/13 Communications, owner of the East Valley Tribune , in 2010. In April 30, it
558-530: The company's international operations stretch across Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America. Cox Enterprises is currently led by Alexander C. Taylor, a fourth-generation Cox family member and great-grandson of founder James M. Cox . James M. Cox's grandson, James C. Kennedy , and other members of the Cox family are on the company's board of directors. On March 2, 2020, the sale of Cox Media Group's Ohio newspapers
589-473: The deal being valued at $ 525 million. In February 2024, Cox agreed to buy out government software company OpenGov , in which it already holds minority interest, with the deal valuing the company at $ 1.8 billion. The Northwest Explorer The Explorer Newspaper is a weekly newspaper in Tucson, Arizona , United States. Its coverage area includes the towns of Oro Valley and Marana and
620-588: The newspaper would cease publishing in Scottsdale and Tempe. Additionally, it would publish only four days a week in the remainder of its circulation area, although it would publish four distinct editions serving Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert and Queen Creek. More than 140 staff members' jobs were eliminated with the move. On April 20, 2009, the Tribune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting after
651-591: The next 7 years, stock was purchased by P.R. Mitten and his son, Charles until 1939 when Charles Mitten bought out his father's share. Mitten began printing the paper five days a week after World War II under the name of the Mesa Daily Tribune . In 1950 Mitten sold the paper to David W. Calvert. In 1952, the Tribune Publishing Company was incorporated. On January 26, 1956, the Mesa Daily Tribune publishing plant on Macdonald Street
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#1732773010749682-550: The organization, among stakeholders, and within the communities being served. According to its public statements, its primary focus areas include: In September 2019, Cox Automotive's Mobility Division entered into an agreement with Rivian , the company developing the first luxury all-electric truck. In the deal, Cox will invest $ 350 million into Rivian, with the two companies exploring partnership opportunities in service operations, logistics, and digital retailing. In August 2022, Cox Enterprises agreed to acquire Axios Media , with
713-569: The paper in 1910 and converted it into a daily publication, The Evening Press . They then sold the paper in 1911. In 1913, The Evening Press became the Mesa Daily Tribune, and in 1925, the paper was renamed the Mesa Daily Journal . The name changed again to the Daily Mesa Evening Journal in 1928. In 1932, Southside Publishing Company, a corporation of Mesa and Chandler businessmen, acquired ownership. Over
744-576: The paper ran a five-part series on how the efforts of Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio against illegal immigrants detracted from quality of law enforcement services provided by his agency. By the time the award was announced, co-author of the series Paul Giblin had been laid off during a round of Tribune cutbacks and co-author Ryan Gabrielson left the following summer. Freedom Communications filed for Chapter 11 reorganization on September 1, 2009, in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware. As
775-699: The privately-owned company. In 1982, CBC moved its headquarters to the Atlanta area and changed its name to Cox Communications , Inc. The company was eventually consolidated into Cox Enterprises. In 1988 then-Executive Vice President Jim Kennedy , grandson of Governor Cox, was promoted to CEO and chairman of Cox Enterprises. In 1986, Cox Enterprises launched a new subsidiary Cox Video, which lined up eleven commitments for original video programs, four of them came from Media Home Entertainment , which are comedy-based tapes and seven of them came from Fox Hills Video , which are reality-based tapes, both subsidiaries of Heron Communications , and co-production budgets involve
806-441: The publicly-traded Cox Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1964, though the newspaper business remained independent as Cox Enterprises. In 1966, Cox expanded its holdings to purchase television syndicator Walter Schwimmer, followed in 1967, by the purchase of television production company Bing Crosby Productions. Cox subsequently sold off its syndication unit to a new production company Telecom Productions in 1970. Cox would reenter
837-508: The television syndication business, when Cox's subsidiary TeleRep, established Television Program Enterprises in the late 1970s, before merging with Rysher Entertainment in 1993. As the cable business expanded, it was eventually consolidated and spun off into the new privately-owned Cox Cable Communications (CCC) in 1968, which quickly became the second-largest cable TV company. Upon Jim Cox Jr.'s death in 1974, he left his two sisters, Anne Cox Chambers and Barbara Cox , in control of 95% of
868-416: The website Phoenix.org, acquired the East Valley Tribune and Ahwatukee Foothills News from 10/13 Communications. Times Media Group immediately assumed day-to-day operations; 10/13's other Arizona community newspapers were not included in the sale. The Daily News-Sun , Glendale/Peoria Today and Surprise Today were later sold to Independent Newspapers Inc. Today, the East Valley Tribune publishes once
899-613: Was also reinstated in Tempe and Chandler. On October 8, 2011, Terry Horne was named publisher and editor of the East Valley Tribune . In early 2012, the now-former Tribune complex at 120 W. 1st Avenue, which had been vacated by 10/13 Communications, was acquired by a private developer, extensively renovated and leased to the State of Arizona as the Mesa neighborhood offices for the Department of Economic Security . Between 2011 and 2016,
930-514: Was destroyed by fire and opened five months later at 120 W. 1st Ave, Mesa. In 1977, Cox Enterprises of Atlanta, Georgia, purchased the Mesa Daily Tribune from Calvert. Cox Newspapers then purchased the Tempe Daily News in 1980 and the Chandler Arizonan in 1983. It started the Gilbert Tribune in 1990, and purchased the Scottsdale Progress in 1993. David C. Scott was appointed president of Cox Arizona Publications and publisher of
961-587: Was finalized back to Cox Enterprises, and subsequently formed Cox First Media. This move was to ensure the publications would remain daily newspapers serving the southwest Ohio region. The company was founded in Dayton, Ohio , by James M. Cox , who purchased the Dayton Daily News in 1898. Cox became a member of Ohio's delegation to the United States House of Representatives and then