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A St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press front page dated August 12, 1945 featuring the first publication of the mushroom cloud during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.. The Pioneer Press traces its history to both the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesota's first daily newspaper (founded in 1849 by James M. Goodhue), and the Saint Paul Dispatch (launched in 1868).
The Pioneer Press publishes 32 local newspapers in the Chicago area. It is a division of Tribune Publishing , and is based in Chicago . The community newspapers are the main source of local news in Illinois communities such as Winnetka , Highland Park , and Lake Forest .
Minneapolis–Saint Paul, also known as the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, in the state of Minnesota, United States of America, has two major general-interest newspapers. The region is currently ranked as the 15th largest television market in the United States. [1] The market officially includes 59 counties of Minnesota and ...
The earliest paper was the Minnesota Weekly Democrat in St. Paul in 1803 well before statehood in 1858. [3] There are three newspapers that trace their roots back to before Minnesota statehood in 1858. The oldest, continually published newspaper is the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
James Madison Goodhue (March 31, 1810 – August 27, 1852) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and founder of the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesota 's first newspaper, which eventually merged with the Saint Paul Dispatch to become the Twin Cities Pioneer Press. He is the namesake of Goodhue County and is also known for being a founding ...
Knight Ridder continued to publish the Pioneer Press and Dispatch as independent daily newspapers until 1985, when they merged to become the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch. In 1990 the owners dropped the word Dispatch from the name, bringing to an end the Dispatch's 122-year run as a prominent feature on the St. Paul media landscape.
The St. Paul edition was discontinued in 1999 in favor of a metro edition for the Minneapolis–St. Paul area and a state edition for areas beyond the metropolitan area. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Although the newspaper competes with the St. Paul–based Pioneer Press in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, the Star Tribune is more popular in the western ...
Minnesota's first newspaper, the Minnesota Pioneer, the forerunner of today's St. Paul Pioneer Press, was established by James M. Goodhue in 1849. [18] Just west of downtown Saint Paul is the neighborhood of Irvine Park ; it was platted by John Irvine and Henry Mower Rice in 1849, and Saint Paul's oldest house, the Charles Symonds House (1850 ...