Ames Tribune

The Ames Tribune

The Ames Tribune, Sunday, July 26, 2015
Type	Daily newspaper (except Monday)
Owner(s)	Gannett
Founded	1868 (1868) as The Intelligencer
Language	English
Headquarters	210 5th Street Ames, Iowa 50010
Circulation	2,982[1]
ISSN	1096-8202
Website	amestrib.com

The Ames Tribune is a newspaper published Tuesday through Sunday based in Ames, Iowa. The newspaper is owned by Gannett.

History

In 1986, the Tribune was bought by Michael Gartner and Gary Gerlach, two former executives at The Des Moines Register.^[2] Gartner won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing at the Tribune. The Omaha World-Herald Company bought the Ames Tribune in 1999 from Gartner, Gerlach, and the estate of David Belin.^[3] Stephens Media purchased the Tribune from the Omaha World-Herald Company in 2010.^[4][5] In 2015, the Stephens Media newspapers were sold to New Media Investment Group.^[6] New Media acquired Gannett Company in 2019, making the Tribune a sibling publication to The Des Moines Register.^[7]

References

1. "Find Iowa Newspaper". Iowa Newspaper Association. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
2. "The Daily Reporter - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
3. "The Telegraph-Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
4. "Tribune sold to Stephens Media; new publisher named". Retrieved 2010-11-29.
5. "World-Herald subsidiary sells seven Iowa papers - Omaha.com". archive.ph. 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
6. Howard Stutzlas (2015-02-19). "Review-Journal, parent Stephens Media to be sold to New Media". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
7. Tracy, Marc (November 19, 2019). "Gannett, Now Largest U.S. Newspaper Chain, Targets 'Inefficiencies'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 19, 2019.

External links

• "About Us | Ames Tribune". Retrieved July 23, 2015.
• Lisheron, Mark (January–February 1999). "The Mentor". American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010. Retrieved September 8, 2012.