The ''Duluth News Tribune'' (known locally as ''The Tribune'' or ''DNT'') is a newspaper based in

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. While circulation is heaviest in the

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metropolitan area, delivery extends into northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and Michigan's

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. The paper has a limited distribution in

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. The ''News Tribune'' has been owned by

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since 2006.

Publication and ownership history

The present incarnation of the ''Duluth News Tribune'' is the outcome of the merger and takeover of several earlier publications. Duluth's first weekly newspaper, ''The Duluth Minnesotian,'' was first published by Dr. Thomas Preston Foster, an editor of the St. Paul Minnesotian, on April 24, 1869. After a year of ''The Duluth Minnesotian'' publishing unfavorable articles about city services and local politics, Duluth's Mayor Joshua Carter and local investor

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invited the owner of

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's ''Superior Tribune'' to move his paper across the canal to Duluth. This owner, Robert C. Mitchell, published the renamed ''Duluth Tribune'' on May 4, 1870. The ''Duluth Tribune'' was soon renamed the ''Duluth Daily Tribune''. Meanwhile, ''The Duluth Minnesotian'' merged with another local newspaper, the ''Duluth Weekly Herald,'' to become ''The Duluth Minnesotian-Herald'' in 1875, later dropping "Minnesotian" to become an evening paper, ''The Duluth Herald''. The first ''News-Tribune'' was created as a result of the merger of the ''Duluth Tribune'' and another daily paper, the ''Duluth News'' in 1892. In 1929, this morning paper was purchased by ''The Duluth Herald''. Ridder Publications, later renamed

Knight Ridder Knight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by McClatchy on June 27, 2006, it was the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspaper brand ...

Inc., bought both papers in 1936. The pair were merged in 1982 to form the ''News-Tribune & Herald'', shortened simply to ''Duluth News-Tribune'' in 1988. In 2000, the hyphen was omitted, leaving ''Duluth News Tribune'' as the paper's title. In 2006,

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purchased Knight Ridder Inc., acquiring the ''Duluth News Tribune'' in the process. The McClatchy Company decided to sell 12 of Knight Ridder's 32 daily newspapers, including the ''Duluth News Tribune'' and Minneapolis' ''

Star Tribune The ''Star Tribune'' is the largest newspaper in Minnesota. It originated as the ''Minneapolis Tribune'' in 1867 and the competing ''Minneapolis Daily Star'' in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, Minneapolis's competing newspapers were consolida ...

'', due to a company acquisition philosophy limiting purchases to "newspapers in fast-growing markets."

, a Fargo-based media firm, announced the purchase of the ''News Tribune'' on June 7, 2006. Forum Communications publishes a number of newspapers in the region, including ''

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,'' the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. The ''Duluth News Tribune'' is available daily in an on-line form, and is printed twice weekly for mail delivery on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Notable people

Chris Monroe Christine Monroe (born April 17, 1962) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and author best known for her weekly comic strip “Violet Days,” which appears in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune. "Violet Days" has been in pri ...

– cartoonist of weekly comic strip ''Violet Days'' (Monroe retired the comic in February 2018.) * John L. Morrison – reporter at ''Duluth Evening Herald'' and labor department editor at ''Duluth News Tribune'' *

Robert Ridder Robert Blair Ridder (July 21, 1919 – June 24, 2000) was an American ice hockey administrator, media businessman, and philanthropist. He was the founding president of the Minnesota Hockey, Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association, and managed the ...

– reporter at Tribune, later a director of

media *

Robin Washington Robin Washington is an American journalist and filmmaker, born in Chicago in 1956. As a journalist and editor, he was worked for newspapers in Boston and Duluth, Minnesota, as well as for NPR. He has made documentaries about the civil rights movem ...

– journalist and ''Duluth News Tribune'' executive editor from 2010-2014

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