The ''Mail Tribune'' is a seven-day

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based in

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, United States that serves

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, and adjacent areas of

Josephine County, Oregon Josephine County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 88,090. The county seat is Grants Pass. The county is probably named after a stream in the area called Josephine Creek, which in ...

and northern

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. 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,

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and

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, as well as

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and other cities in the

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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 ''

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''. The ''Mail Tribune'' was awarded the

1934 Pulitzer Prize The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1934: Journalism awards *Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Public Service: ** ''Mail Tribune, Medford Mail Tribune'' (Oregon) for its campaign against unscrupulous politicians in Jackson County, Oregon. * ...

for Meritorious Service, for its coverage of corrupt Jackson County politicians. The predecessor of Local Media Group purchased the Medford paper in 1973, and also owned the nearby ''

Ashland Daily Tidings The ''Ashland Daily Tidings'' was a morning newspaper serving the city of Ashland, Oregon, United States. It was owned by Rosebud Media, like its sister publication, the Medford-based '' Mail Tribune,'' which has continued to publish. The ''Da ...

''. On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of

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, 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

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indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. The ''Mail Tribune'' and ''

'' were sold to Rosebud Media in 2017. On September 21, 2022, the paper announced it would discontinue its printed edition and only publish online as of the start of October 2022.

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
* (editor from 1968–1986) * * {{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