The Tribune-Star is a seven-day morning daily newspaper based in Terre Haute, Indiana , covering the Wabash Valley area of Indiana and Illinois . It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings . Counties within the newspaper's coverage areas include Clay , Greene , Parke , Sullivan , Vermillion and Vigo counties, Indiana, and Clark , Crawford and Edgar counties, Illinois. It was preceded by The Tribune .
3-699: The Tribune was founded in December 1894, with Republican George B. Lockwood among its co-founders. James Solomon Barcus bought the paper in 1902. In 1904, Barcus also bought the Terre Haute Gazette (which dated to around 1869) and merged it into the Tribune . (The combined paper was known, at least briefly, as the Tribune-Gazette .) The Star was founded in August 1903 and was bought by
6-486: The morning-published Tribune-Star , part of the nationwide trend of the period away from afternoon papers. In 1990, Ingersoll sold a number of papers including the Tribune-Star to Thomson Corporation . In 2000, Community purchased the Tribune-Star and 16 other papers from Thomson, as a part of Thompson's exit from the U.S. newspaper business. On Sept. 2, 2023, the paper announced it would switch to delivery via
9-495: The owners of the Tribune in 1931. (The Terre Haute Post , founded in 1906, was acquired by the Star in 1929.) A 230-day strike shut down both the Tribune and Star in 1964-65. The Tribune and Star were sold to Ingersoll Publications in late 1982. Prior to the sale, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology owned a controlling interest in the papers. In May 1983, the morning Star and afternoon Tribune were merged to become
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