Minnesota Star Tribune

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Star Tribune
"The Heart and Voice of the North"
The September 20, 2024, front page
of the Star Tribune
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Star Tribune Media Company LLC (Glen Taylor)
PublisherSteve Grove
EditorSuki Dardarian
Opinion editorPhil Morris
Founded
  • May 25, 1867; 157 years ago (1867-05-25)
    (as the Minneapolis Tribune)
  • August 19, 1920; 104 years ago (1920-08-19)
    (as the Minneapolis Daily Star)
HeadquartersStar Tribune Building
650 3rd Ave S.
Suite 1300
Minneapolis, MN
United States
Circulation242,270 Daily
351,180 Sunday (as of 2024)[1]
OCLC number43369847
Websitestartribune.com

The Minnesota Star Tribune, formerly the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of 2023, it is Minnesota's largest newspaper and the seventh-largest in the United States by circulation, and is distributed throughout the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the state, and the Upper Midwest.

It originated as the Minneapolis Tribune in 1867 and the competing Minneapolis Daily Star in 1920.[2] During the 1930s and 1940s, the two papers consolidated, with the Tribune published in the morning and the Star in the evening. They merged in 1982, creating the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, renamed the Star Tribune in 1987. After a tumultuous period in which the newspaper was sold and resold and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, it was purchased by local billionaire and former Minnesota State Senator Glen Taylor in 2014.[3] In 2024, the paper was renamed The Minnesota Star Tribune.[4]

The Star Tribune typically contains national, international, and local news, sports, business, and lifestyle stories. Journalists from the Star Tribune and its predecessor newspapers have won seven Pulitzer Prizes.

  1. ^ "Minnesota Newspaper Directory 2024" (PDF). Minnesota Newspaper Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  2. ^ "| Minnesota Historical Society". www.mnhs.org. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  3. ^ "OPINION EXCHANGE | Ethnic studies will turn schools into extremist boot camps". Star Tribune. January 16, 2022.
  4. ^ Robertson, Katie. "Defying Crisis in Local News, the Star Tribune Expands". The New York Times.