| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. |
| Publisher | Robyn McCloskey |
| Editor | Max Jones |
| Headquarters | 2800 Poplar St., Suite 37A ,Terre Haute, Indiana 47803 United States |
| Circulation | 27,895 daily (as of 2007)[1] |
| Price | USD .75/Daily $1.75/Sunday |
| Website | tribstar.com |
TheTribune-Star is a five-day morningdaily newspaper based inTerre Haute, Indiana, covering theWabash Valley area ofIndiana andIllinois. It is owned byCommunity Newspaper Holdings.[2] Counties within the newspaper's coverage areas includeClay,Greene,Parke,Sullivan,Vermillion andVigo counties, Indiana, andClark,Crawford andEdgar counties, Illinois.[3] It was preceded byThe Tribune.
TheTribune was founded in December 1894,[4] with Republican George B. Lockwood among its co-founders.James Solomon Barcus bought the paper in 1902. In 1904, Barcus also bought theTerre Haute Gazette (which dated to around 1869) and merged it into theTribune.[5] (The combined paper was known, at least briefly, as theTribune-Gazette.)
TheStar was founded in August 1903[6] and was bought by the owners of theTribune in 1931. (TheTerre Haute Post, founded in 1906, was acquired by theStar in 1929.)[7][8][9]
A 230-day strike shut down both theTribune andStar in 1964–65.[10]
TheTribune andStar were sold toIngersoll Publications in late 1982. Prior to the sale,Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology owned a controlling interest in the papers.[11] In May 1983, the morningStar and afternoonTribune were merged to become the morning-publishedTribune-Star,[12] part of the nationwide trend of the period away from afternoon papers.[13]
In 1990, Ingersoll sold a number of papers including theTribune-Star toThomson Corporation.[14] In 2000, Community purchased theTribune-Star and 16 other papers from Thomson, as a part of Thompson's exit from the U.S. newspaper business.[15]
On Sept. 2, 2023, the paper announced it would switch to delivery via the U.S. Postal Service starting Oct. 3. At that time, 40% of subscribers already received the paper via mail.[16]