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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett |
| Founder(s) | William F. Huffman, Sr. |
| Publisher | Andy Fisher |
| Editor | Jamie Rokus |
| Founded | early 1900s |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Circulation | 2,600 (as of 2022)[1] |
| Website | wisconsinrapidstribune |
TheWisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune is a daily newspaper published inWisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. It is owned byGannett, which also owns the nearbyStevens Point Journal andMarshfield News-Herald. The newspaper was formerly owned byThomson Newspapers Inc.
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 theDaily Tribune's 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.[2]
Among former staffers of this newspaper areRobert D. McFadden, aPulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter forThe New York Times, who worked for theDaily Tribune from 1957 to 1958; Robert Des Jarlais, an award-winning sports and general news editor and reporter at theDaily Tribune from the mid-1960s until shortly before his untimely death in 2003; and David L. Van Wormer, an Outdoor Writer for theMilwaukee Journal, a sportswriter and editor for theTribune at various times between 1970 and 1995.
