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The
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is a newspaper in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
USA. Although founded in
1889 it existed only in the eastern suburbs of the city until
1992 when, as an offshoot of the
Greensburg Tribune-Review, it started serving all of
Metro Pittsburgh after a press strike at the two previously dominant Pittsburgh dailies deprived the city of a newspaper for several months.
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.
Investigative reporting
The newspaper is known for its lengthy investigations
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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.
(External Link) The reporters were charged with trespassing at one plant during their investigation,
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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,
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Greensburg Tribune-Review and
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review lost 8,000 subscribers Monday to Friday, with deeper losses on Sundays.
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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,
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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, won't be affected.
(External Link) 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 wasn't announced.
(External Link) 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.
(External Link) Several staff writers were laid off in December, 2005, as two of Gateway's newspapers were discontinued.
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