PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

The '''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review''' is a newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1992 as an offshoot of the ''Greensburg Tribune-Review'' after a press strike at the two previously dominant Pittsburgh dailies.
The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', ''Greensburg Tribune-Review'' and affiliated dailies are published by the Tribune Review Publishing Company, which was purchased by Richard Mellon Scaife in 1970. The newspaper is generally considered to have a conservative and libertarian opinion page.

Contents

Investigative reporting

Other reporting

Competition

Merger

See also

References

External links

Investigative reporting

The newspaper is known for its lengthy investigations [2] into allegations of corruption, [3] [4] allegations of government malfeasance, [5] social injustice, [6] [7] and complex sports issues. [8] [9]
Carl Prine, an investigative reporter for the newspaper, conducted a probe with the CBS news magazine ''60 Minutes'' that highlighted the lack of security at the nation's most dangerous chemical plants following the September 11, 2001 attacks. [10] The reporters were charged with trespassing at one plant during their investigation, [11] but were acquitted when the judge accepted that the story had been in the public interest. [12]

Other reporting

One ''Tribune-Review'' flap went national when Colin McNickle, editor of the newspaper's editorial page, attended a July 26, 2004 speech at the Massachusetts State House given by Teresa Heinz Kerry, who had been the subject of two negative articles in the ''Tribune-Reviews's'' opinion pages. After the speech, there was a dispute between McNickle and Heinz Kerry over her use of the term "un-American activity."

Competition

The chain of Scaife newspapers competes against the larger ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. In 2005, a report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations determined that the ''Post-Gazette'' had lost 5,000 subscribers on its Monday-to-Friday deliveries, [13] while the ''Greensburg Tribune-Review'' and ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'' lost 8,000 subscribers Monday to Friday, with deeper losses on Sundays. [14]
Although the circulation slumps are part of a nationwide trend in the U.S., both the ''Tribune-Review'' and ''Post-Gazette'' lost readers at a greater rate than the national average of 1.6 percent for dailies with more than 100,000 subscribers.
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In 2003, the ''Tribune-Review'' launched an afternoon tabloid, ''Trib PM''. [16].

Merger

Edward H. Harrell, the president of the Tribune Review Publishing Company, announced in January 2005 that most of the regional editions of the paper would have their newsroom, management and circulation departments merged and staff reductions would follow. The merged papers include the ''Tribune-Review'' of Greensburg, the ''Valley News Dispatch'' of Tarentum, ''The Leader-Times'' of Kittanning, ''The Daily Courier'' of Connellsville and the ''Blairsville Dispatch''. ''The Valley Independent'', the only paper with a unionized newsroom and contract, will not be affected. [17] The company incorporated as Trib Total Media in the summer of 2005, and purchased Gateway Newspapers, a community publication group servicing approximately 22 communities in and around Pittsburgh's Allegheny County.
Two managers were immediately laid off; the exact number of proposed redundancies was not announced. [18] In September 2005 Harrell announced his retirement as president of Tribune-Review Publishing Company, effective December 31, 2005. He had served as president since 1989.[19] Several staff writers were laid off in December, 2005, as two of Gateway's newspapers were discontinued.

See also

Arkansas Project

References

1. 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation

External links

★ Pittsburgh Live web site

★ "Cable news networks obsess over Teresa Heinz Kerry comment; downplay Tribune-Review's right-wing history", ''Media Matters for America''

★ "Shakeup at the ''Tribune-Review'', ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', January 20, 2005

★ "Who is Richard Mellon Scaife?" by Brooks Jackson, CNN, April 27, 1998

★ "Trials and Trib-ulations: An insider's look at Pittsburgh's second daily", Pittsburgh City Paper, September 1, 2005

★ Salena Zito Tribune-Review Columns