Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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The March 1, 2012 front page of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Tribune-Review Publishing Company
PublisherRichard Mellon Scaife
Founded1811 (In 1992 became metro-wide)
Headquarters503 Martindale St.
3rd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
United States
Circulation187,875 Daily
202,181 Sunday (as of 2011)[1]
Websitetriblive.com

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.

  1. ^ "United States Circulation averages for the six months ended: 9/30/2011". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 2011-09-30. Archived from the original on 2012-10-27. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  2. ^ "Triblive.com Website Traffic and Information | TrafficEstimate.com". www.trafficestimate.com.
  3. ^ Dominic. "Westmoreland County Newspapers". noel.mcn.org. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Help Desk - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review". pittsburghlive.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  5. ^ Halllock, Steven M (2007). Editorial and Opinion. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-275-99330-6. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  6. ^ Phillips, Jenn; Loriann Hoff Oberlin; Evan M. Pattak (March 1, 2005). Insiders' Guide to Pittsburgh (Third ed.). Globe Pequot Press. p. 441. ISBN 9780762735075. Retrieved March 3, 2014.[permanent dead link‍]
  7. ^ "washingtonpost.com: White House Memo Asserts a Scandal Theory". www.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  8. ^ "Weekly Community Newspaper". Trib Total Media. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2016.