''The Bossier Press-Tribune'' is a
newspaper
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specializing in
local news in
Bossier Parish
Bossier Parish ( ; french: Paroisse de Bossier) is a parish located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2010 census, the population was 116,979, and 128,746 in 2020.
The parish seat is Benton. The principal city is ...
in northwestern
Louisiana
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, with some regional, state, and national stories too as they impact the readership. ''The Press-Tribune'' is published on Tuesday and Fridays afternoons at 4250 Viking Drive in
Bossier City
Bossier City ( ) is a city in Bossier Parish in the northwestern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana in the United States. It is the second most populous city in the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area. In 2020, it had a ...
, and has a circulation of 12,500 copies.
The origin of ''The Press-Tribune'' can be traced to 1940, when as the weekly ''Bossier Tribune'', it was in competition with the ''Planters Press''. In 1945, T. L. Morris sold the ''Bossier Tribune'' to Larry Freeman, who was also the publisher of a
Jewish
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newspaper in
Shreveport
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. In the latter 1970s, the ''Bossier Tribune'' and ''The Planters Press'' merged to become the ''Bossier Press-Tribune''.
In the 1990s,
Robert E. "Bob" Barton, the owner of ''The Press-Tribune'' at the time who also served in the
Louisiana House of Representatives
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from 1996 to 2000, purchased from Wilton Corley the ''Bossier Banner-Progress'', a 131-year-old weekly newspaper that serves
Benton, the Bossier
parish seat
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.
[
The publisher is David Arthur Specht, Jr. (born 1969) of Specht Newspapers, Inc.][ The sports editor is Russell Wayne Hedges, son of football coach ]Lee Hedges
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of Shreveport.
''The Press-Tribune'' is a sister publication of the ''Minden Press-Herald
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'' in Minden
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in neighboring Webster Parish
Webster Parish ( French: ''Paroisse de Webster'') is a parish located in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
The seat of the parish is Minden.
As of the 2010 census, the Webster Parish population was 41,207. In 2018, the ...
, Louisiana.
References
External links
Bossier Press-Tribune website
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Newspapers published in Louisiana
Newspapers established in 1940
Bossier Parish, Louisiana
1940 establishments in Louisiana