The ''Post-Tribune'' of Northwest Indiana (formerly the ''Gary Post-Tribune'') is a daily
newspaper headquartered in
Merrillville
Merrillville is a town in Ross Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 35,246 at the 2010 census. Merrillville is in east-central Lake County, in the Chicago metropolitan area. On January 1, 2015, Merrillville became the ...
,
Indiana,
United States. It serves the
Northwest Indiana region, and is owned by the
Chicago Tribune Media Group.
History
The paper was founded in 1907 as ''The Gary Weekly''. It was established to serve steel industry residents. On September 7, 1908, the weekly became a daily and changed its name to the ''Gary Tribune''. Its founder, J.R. and H.B. Snyder, purchased the ''Gary Evening Post'' from Gary mayor
Thomas Knotts
Thomas Elwood Knotts (1861–1921) was the first mayor of the city of Gary, Indiana, serving from 1909 to 1913, after having previously served as head of the Gary town board from 1906 to 1909. He was also Gary's first postmaster. His business ...
on March 9, 1910. In July 1921 the two papers were merged producing the ''Post-Tribune'' a weekday evening and weekend morning paper. In August 1966, the Snyder heirs sold the publication to Northwest Publications, Inc., a subsidiary of Ridder Publications. "Gary" was dropped from the masthead to further "regionalize" the ''Post-Tribune'', although critics charged that it was an attempt to distance itself from the declining city. In 1974 the ''Post-Tribune'' became part of the
Knight-Ridder chain of productions. In June, 1986, the ''Post-Tribune'' became a morning paper.
Hollinger International (later the
Sun-Times Media Group) took over the production on February 2, 1998. The ''Post-Tribune'' consolidated its printing with that of the ''Sun-Times'' in 2007, at which time it closed its printing plant on Broadway in Gary, ending more than 50 years of press runs there. It had moved its main editorial offices from Gary to neighboring Merrillville in 2000. In 2014, it was purchased by the Chicago Tribune Media Group and later converted to a broadsheet format.
An abridged edition of the ''Post-Tribune'' appears in Northwest Indiana copies of the Sunday ''Tribune''.
Notable staff
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Dorothy Misener Jurney
Dorothy Misener Jurney (May 8, 1909 – June 19, 2002) was an American journalist. As women's page editor for the ''Miami Herald'', she shifted the focus of those pages from the "Four F's – family, food, fashion, and furnishings" – to ...
Distribution
The ''Post-Tribune'' is printed early at one of its parent-company's facilities in Chicago, driven to Northwest Indiana and distributed based on delivery region.
Regions are:
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Gary
Gary may refer to:
*Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
*Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary
Places
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*Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
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Lake County
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Porter County
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Southlake
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Valparaiso
See also
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The Times of Northwest Indiana''
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List of newspapers in Indiana
This is a list of newspapers in Indiana.
Daily newspapers
:''This is a list of daily newspapers in Indiana. For weekly, monthly or university newspapers, see List of newspapers in Indiana''.
:''List is in order of place of publication''
* '' In ...
References
External links
Post-Trib.com
Newspapers published in Indiana
Mass media in Gary, Indiana
Publications established in 1907
Tribune Publishing
1907 establishments in Indiana
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