''The Bossier Press-Tribune'' is a
newspaper 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, 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, 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 newspaper in
Shreveport
Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population o ...
. 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
The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ...
from 1996 to 2000, purchased from Wilton Corley the ''Bossier Banner-Progress'', a 131-year-old weekly newspaper that serves
Benton Benton may refer to:
Places
Canada
*Benton, a local service district south of Woodstock, New Brunswick
*Benton, Newfoundland and Labrador
United Kingdom
* Benton, Devon, near Bratton Fleming
* Benton, Tyne and Wear
United States
*Benton, Alabam ...
, the Bossier
parish seat.
[
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
Junior Lee Hedges (born November 2, 1929) is, with 217 victories, the winningest high school football coach in the history of Shreveport-Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana. In 2001, the Caddo Parish School Board renamed the football stadium ...
of Shreveport.
''The Press-Tribune'' is a sister publication of the '' Minden Press-Herald'' in Minden
Minden () is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the greatest town between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detm ...
in neighboring Webster Parish, 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