 The July 27, 2005 front page of The Albuquerque Tribune | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | E. W. Scripps Company |
| Publisher | Albuquerque Publishing Company |
| Editor | Phill Casaus |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Ceased publication | February 23, 2008[1] |
| Headquarters | 7777 Jefferson NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109  United States |
| Circulation | 10,000 (when closure was announced)[1] |
| ISSN | 1097-2048 |
| Website | abqtrib.com |
The Albuquerque Tribune was an afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1922 by Carlton Cole Magee as Magee's Independent. It was published in the afternoon and evening Monday through Saturday.
Scott Ware served as editor from 1995 to 2001.[2] Other notable journalists who worked at the Tribune included Ollie Reed,[3] Joline Gutierrez Krueger,[4] and Terri Burke,[5] who later served as the executive director of the Texas ACLU.[6]
On February 20, 2008, E. W. Scripps Company announced that the Tribune would close, effective February 23, 2008.[1] The closure followed a seven-month effort by the company to sell the paper, which had declined in circulation from 42,000 in 1988 to about 10,000 in 2008.[1] Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico declared the paper's last day "Albuquerque Tribune Day" in his state, to "celebrate the Tribune's long and proud history and its honorable service to the state."[7]
Eileen Welsome of The Albuquerque Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1994 for her series entitled "The Plutonium Experiment", a series about human radiation experiments that took place at the Walter E. Fernald State School of Massachusetts, among other locations.
- ^ a b c d Albuquerque Tribune to cease publication from the E. W. Scripps website
- ^ "American Journalism Review - Archives". ajrarchive.org. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ Matt Mygatt. "Albuquerque's 'Tribune' bids farewell". Santa Fe New Mexican. Associated Press. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ Frosch, Dan (December 8, 2017). "Opioids: The Mother Who Knew Everything and Saw Nothing". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ Staff, ABQJournal News. "6:50am -- Former Trib ME To Head Texas ACLU". www.abqjournal.com. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ "ACLU News & Commentary". American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ Governor Richardson Proclaims Albuquerque Tribune Day[permanent dead link], a press release from the Office of New Mexico's Governor