Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Tribune-Review Publishing Company |
Publisher | Richard Mellon Scaife |
Founded | 1811 (In 1992 became metro-wide) |
Headquarters | 503 Martindale St. 3rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15212 United States |
Circulation | 187,875 Daily 202,181 Sunday (as of 2011)[1] |
Website | triblive |
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib", is the second-largest daily newspaper serving the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania. It transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, but remains the second-largest daily in Pennsylvania, with nearly one million unique page views monthly.[2] Founded on August 22, 1811, as the Greensburg Gazette and consolidated with several papers into the Greensburg Tribune-Review in 1889,[3][4] the paper circulated only in the eastern suburban counties of Westmoreland and parts of Indiana and Fayette until May 1992, when it began serving all of the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area after a strike at the two Pittsburgh dailies, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Pittsburgh Press, deprived the city of a newspaper for several months.
The Tribune-Review Publishing Company was owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, until his death in July 2014. Scaife was a major funder of conservative organizations, including the Arkansas Project. Accordingly, the Tribune-Review has maintained a conservative editorial stance, contrasting with the then-more liberal Post-Gazette before that paper's own editorial shift in 2018[5][6] and was known for spreading false rumors.[7] In addition to its flagship paper, the company publishes 17 weekly community newspapers,[8] the Pittsburgh Pennysaver, TribLive.com, and TribTotalMedia.com.