''The Bismarck Tribune'' is a daily
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
with a weekly audience of 82,000 unique readers, printed daily in
Bismarck, North Dakota
Bismarck () is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the state's second-most populous city, after Fargo. The city's population was 73,622 in the 2020 census, while its metropolitan popula ...
. Owned by
Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 77 daily newspapers in 26 states, and more than 350 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by Alfred Wilson Lee and is b ...
, it is the only daily newspaper for south-central and southwest
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...
.
History
![Masthead Bismarck Weekly Tribune - 1895](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Masthead_Bismarck_Weekly_Tribune_-_1895.jpg)
Founded in 1873 by Clement A. Lounsberry, the ''Bismarck Tribune'' published its first issue on July 11, 1873. It has been known as the ''Bismarck Daily Tribune'' (1881–1916) and ''Bismarck Tri-Weekly Tribune'' (1875–1881).
Battle of the Little Bighorn
The ''Tribune''s first claim to fame came in 1876, when the three-year-old paper published the first reports of
George Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, ...
's last stand at the
Little Bighorn.
Reporter
Mark H. Kellogg accompanied Custer and his men and died during the battle.
Awards
In 1938, the paper won the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalis ...
after publishing a series of articles called "Self-Help in the Dust Bowl."
Notable reporters
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Mark Kellogg
See also
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List of newspapers in North Dakota
This is a list of newspapers in North Dakota. There were approximately 105 newspapers in North Dakota in 2020 according to the Library of Congress. The oldest newspaper still in print under the same name is the '' Hillsboro Banner'', which dates f ...
References
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Newspapers published in North Dakota
Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers
Bismarck, North Dakota
1873 establishments in Dakota Territory
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners
Publications established in 1873
Lee Enterprises publications
Daily newspapers published in the United States
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