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''The News Tribune'' is an American daily
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based in
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. It is the second-largest daily newspaper in the state of Washington with a weekday circulation of 30,945 in 2020. With origins dating back to 1883, the newspaper was established under its current form in 1918. Locally owned for 73 years by the Baker family, the newspaper was purchased by
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in 1986.


History

The newspaper can trace its origins back to the founding of the weekly ''Tacoma Ledger'' by R.F. Radebaugh in 1880 and H.C. Patrick, under the firm name Radebaugh & Company. Radebaugh had served on the reportorial staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. He first visited Tacoma in June 1879. Radebaugh grew to know Patrick, who owned and operated a weekly newspaper in Santa Cruz. Radebaugh and Patrick agreed to move the business to Tacoma. In Tacoma Radebaugh was the paper's editor and Patrick served as the business manager. The paper became a success and Radebaugh bought out Patrick's share. The Ledger served as a morning paper until 1937 and its name remained on the nameplate of The News Tribune and Sunday Ledger until 1979. . The next year, H.C. Patrick founded ''The News'', another weekly. Both papers became dailies in 1883. In 1898, Radebaugh and Patrick sold their papers to S.A. Perkins. Radebaugh re-entered the market in 1907 with the debut of the ''Tacoma Tribune''. He exited five years later with the sale of the ''Tribune'' to Frank S. and Elbert H. Baker. The Bakers then purchased ''The News'' and the ''Tacoma Ledger'' in 1918, and all three papers were combined into the ''Tacoma News Tribune and Ledger''. In 1948, the paper began operating the
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s KTNT-AM and KTNT-FM, and began operating a
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with the same call letters in 1953. In 1972, KTNT-FM's call letters were changed to KNBQ, which became KBSG in 1988, and
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in 2008. Two years later, the television station was sold and its call letters changed to
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, which is now an owned-and-operated station of The CW. In 1979, the newspaper adopted the name ''Tacoma News Tribune''. Its parent bought the '' Pierce County Herald'' in 1983. In October 1985,
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-based
McClatchy Newspapers The McClatchy Company, commonly referred to as simply McClatchy, is an American publishing company incorporated under Delaware's General Corporation Law and based in Sacramento, California. It operates 29 daily newspapers in fourteen states and ...
reached an agreement with the Baker family to purchase the Tribune Publishing Company's newspaper assets from them for an estimated $112 million, with the transaction completed on August 1, 1986;
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purchased the remaining assets, including KNBQ, at the same time. ''The News Tribune'' published as ''The Morning News Tribune'' from April 6, 1987, to October 4, 1993, when "Morning" was dropped from its name. As of 2001, the ''News Tribune'' was the third largest newspaper in Washington, with a daily circulation of 130,000. The newspaper, alongside sister publication ''
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'', were printed at a plant in Tacoma until February 3, 2019. Since that time, the newspapers have been printed at the facilities of ''
The Columbian ''The Columbian'' is a daily newspaper serving the Vancouver, Washington, and Clark County, Washington area. The paper was published for its first decade (1890–1900) as a four-page daily that was meant as a counterweight to the local Republic ...
'' in
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.


Criticism

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criticized the ''News Tribune'' in ''
Skeptical Inquirer ''Skeptical Inquirer'' is a bimonthly American general-audience magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: ''The Magazine for Science and Reason''. Mission statement and goals Daniel Loxton, writing in ...
'' in 2019 for its acceptance of advertisements for health-related products that imitated the presentation of real articles with only a small disclaimer.


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External links


thenewstribune.com - official website

Official mobile website
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Editor and Publisher
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