The ''Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune'' is a daily newspaper published in
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. It is owned by
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation.
It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...
, which also owns the nearby ''
Stevens Point Journal'' and ''
Marshfield News-Herald. The newspaper was formerly owned by
Thomson Newspapers Inc.''
History
The newspaper was started in the early 1900s by William F. Huffman, Sr.
In the 1990s, the paper was at the center of a controversial murder case, when the ''Daily Tribunes receptionist, Jayne Susan Jacobson, murdered publisher David Gentry's secretary, Julie Schroer at Schroer's home in 1990. Jacobson was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect and was released within a few years of the slaying.
"Group home not found for woman in institution"
''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper and also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely read. It was purchased by the G ...
'' April 7, 1995.
Among former staffers of this newspaper are Robert D. McFadden, a Pulitzer Prize
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-winning senior reporter for ''The New York Times
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'', who worked for the ''Daily Tribune'' from 1957 to 1958; Robert Des Jarlais, an award-winning sports and general news editor and reporter at the ''Daily Tribune'' from the mid-1960s until shortly before his untimely death in 2003; and David L. Van Wormer, an Outdoor Writer for the ''Milwaukee Journal'', a sportswriter and editor for the ''Tribune'' at various times between 1970 and 1995.
References
External links
''Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune'' official site
Mobile phone website
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Newspapers published in Wisconsin
Wood County, Wisconsin
Gannett publications