The Tribune (San Luis Obispo)
| Type | Semiweekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The McClatchy Company |
| Publisher | Tim Ritchey |
| Editor | Joe Tarica |
| Founded | August 7, 1869[1] |
| Headquarters | 3940-7 Broad St. PMB 325, San Luis Obispo, California, 93401 |
| Circulation | 16,125 Daily 17,518 Sunday (as of 2020)[2] |
| Website | sanluisobispo |
The Tribune is a semiweekly broadsheet newspaper and news website that covers San Luis Obispo County, California.
History
It was created in 1939 from a combination of three newspapers founded between 1869 and 1905, and was later acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company.
Walter Murray led the establishment of The Tribune in the late 1860s, starting as the publication's editor and co-owner, with the first issue being printed on August 7, 1869.[3] By 1886, the newspaper was produced above the Chicago Brewery Depot housed at the corner of Chorro and Monterey streets.[4] In April 1939, it merged with the Telegram, an anti-saloon newspaper in town, becoming the Telegram-Tribune. The publication later moved from 1240 Morro Street to 1321 Johnson Avenue beginning in 1958,[5] operating there for the next 35 years, before relocating once more to a new building, at 3825 S. Higuera Street, in 1993.[6]
Scripps traded the paper, along with The Monterey County Herald, to Knight Ridder in 1997, in exchange for the Boulder Daily Camera.[7] The McClatchy Company took over the paper on June 27, 2006, when it acquired Knight Ridder, formerly the United States' second-largest chain of daily newspapers.
The Tribune owns one weekly newspaper, The Cambrian, located in Cambria, California. A second weekly newspaper, The Sun Bulletin of Morro Bay, no longer publishes. According to McClatchy, the newspaper's daily circulation is 35,080 as of 2015.
In February 2015, the paper's publisher, Bruce Ray, announced his resignation; Fresno Bee president and publisher Tom Cullinan was named publisher for the paper.[8] In late 2015, along with many other McClatchy newspapers, The Tribune went through a redesign, adopting a companywide design style for both print and online platforms. Ken Riddick was named president and publisher of The Tribune in October 2017.[9] The Tribune's longtime executive editor Sandra Duerr retired in December 2017.
On February 13, 2020, the paper announced that its owner, The McClatchy Company, had declared bankruptcy. In an article by Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy claimed that bankruptcy was necessary in order to "... shed costs of print legacy and speed shift to digital." Court filings revealed a plan that would turn over control to hedge fund management company, Chatham Asset Management. The family-held company would have to give up its shares in McClatchy, which according to a press release, operates 31 newspapers from Miami to Sacramento, California. No information was given about potential layoffs at that time.[citation needed]
Effective June 5, 2023, the paper's daily print edition will arrive via the U.S. Mail instead of delivery by a local carrier.[10] In February 2024, the paper announced it will decrease the number of print editions to two a week.[11]
References
- ^ Middlecamp, David (August 7, 2019). "Soldier, lawyer, vigilante: Meet the man who founded The Tribune 150 years ago". The Tribune (San Luis Obispo). Retrieved August 9, 2019.
- ^ "McClatchy | Markets". 2021-11-04. Archived from the original on 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ Krieger, Daniel E.; et al. (San Luis Obispo County Historical Society) (1988). San Luis Obispo County: Looking Backward Into the Middle Kingdom. Windsor Publications, Inc. p. 139. ISBN 0-89781-233-6.
- ^ Middlecamp, David (2016). San Luis Obispo County: The 1950s, '60s and '70s (Volume Two ed.). Canada: Pediment Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59725-677-3.
- ^ "Telegram-Tribune Moving Day!". San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune. September 6, 1958. p. 1.
- ^ Fairbanks, Jeff (May 11, 1993). "Growing into the future". San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune. p. 23.
- ^ Roberts, Gene; Kunkel, Thomas; Layton, Charles, eds. (2001). Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1610752325.
- ^ Duerr, Sandra. "Tribune publisher Bruce Ray resigns". SanLuisObispo.com. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
- ^ Fresno Bee staff. "Modesto Bee president named new publisher of The Tribune". SanLuisObispo.com. Fresno Bee. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ^ Tarcia, Joe (2023-04-05). "To our readers: Two changes are coming to The Tribune". SanLuisObispo.com. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ Friedman, Josh (2024-02-09). "SLO Tribune cutting back print newspaper to 2 days a week". Cal Coast News. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
