The ''Mail Tribune'' is a seven-day
daily newspaper based in
Medford, Oregon, United States that serves
Jackson County, Oregon, and adjacent areas of
Josephine County, Oregon and northern
California.
Its coverage area centers on Medford and
Ashland and includes many small communities in Jackson County. The newspaper also covers
Central Point,
Talent,
Eagle Point,
Grants Pass and
Phoenix, as well as
Jacksonville and other cities in the
Rogue Valley.
History
George Putnam bought the ''Medford Tribune'' and two smaller weekly newspapers on April 2, 1907. In 1910, he purchased the ''Medford Mail'' and combined it with the ''Tribune'' to create the ''MailTribune''.
He later sold the paper in order to purchase the Salem ''
Capital Journal''.
[
The ''Mail Tribune'' was awarded the ]1934 Pulitzer Prize The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1934:
Journalism awards
*Public Service:
** ''Medford Mail Tribune'' (Oregon) for its campaign against unscrupulous politicians in Jackson County, Oregon.
* Reporting:
** Royce Brier of the ''San Francisc ...
for Meritorious Service, for its coverage of corrupt Jackson County politicians.
The predecessor of Local Media Group
Local Media Group, Inc., formerly Dow Jones Local Media Group and Ottaway Newspapers Inc., owned newspapers, Web sites and niche publications in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It was headquart ...
purchased the Medford paper in 1973, and also owned the nearby '' Ashland Daily Tidings''. On September 4, 2013, News Corp
News Corporation, stylized as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The second incarnation of the News Corporation (1980–2013), original News Corporation, it was formed ...
announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former ''Wall Street Journal'' editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company.
Special sections
The ''Mail Tribune'''s has four special feature sections that run regularly each week. Sunday's edition contains a Your Life section, with general lifestyle content. Wednesday contains the A La Carte section, which features food articles. Friday is the Oregon Outdoors section, containing local and regional outdoors stories. Friday's edition also contains Tempo, a tabloid insert about local arts and entertainment.
Newsroom
The ''Mail Tribune's'' North Fir Street newsroom consists of reporters, assigning editors and multimedia staff, copy editing and page design, as well as a separate sports department.
References
External links
MailTribune.com
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{{PulitzerPrize PublicService 1926–1950
1907 establishments in Oregon
Medford, Oregon
Mass media in Jackson County, Oregon
Newspapers published in Jackson County, Oregon
Newspapers published in Oregon
Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association
Publications established in 1907
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners