Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Trib Total Media | image = [[Image:Tribune-Review front page.jpg|225px]] | caption = The March 1, 2012, front page of the ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'' | type = Daily [[newspaper]] | format = [[Broadsheet]] | founded = 1811 (in 1992 became metro-wide) | ceased_publication = | price = | owners = Tribune-Review Publishing Company | president = | publisher = [[Richard Mellon Scaife]] | editor = | circulation = 187,875 Daily<br>202,181 Sunday | circulation_date = 2011 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |title=United States Circulation averages for the six months ended: 9/30/2011 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations |url=http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newstitlesearchus.asp |access-date=2012-03-19 |date=2011-09-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027085243/http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newstitlesearchus.asp |archive-date=2012-10-27 }}</ref> | headquarters = 503 Martindale St.<br/>3rd Floor<br/>[[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania|PA]] 15212<br/>United States | ISSN = | website = {{URL|triblive.com}} }}

The '''''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review''''', also known as "the Trib", is the second-largest daily [[newspaper]] serving the [[Greater Pittsburgh]] metropolitan area of [[Western Pennsylvania]]. It transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, but remains the second-largest daily in [[Pennsylvania]], with nearly one million unique page views monthly.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trafficestimate.com/triblive.com|title=Triblive.com Website Traffic and Information | TrafficEstimate.com|website=www.trafficestimate.com}}{{dead link|date=December 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> In January 2026, the publication [https://triblive.com/local/regional/trib-expands-to-fill-pittsburghs-newspaper-void/ announced] that it would bring back a weekly print edition. Founded on August 22, 1811, as the '''''Greensburg Gazette''''' and consolidated with several papers into the '''''Greensburg Tribune-Review''''' in 1889,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://noel.mcn.org/Westmoreland/Newspapers.htm|title=Westmoreland County Newspapers|last=Dominic|website=noel.mcn.org|access-date=18 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310144913/http://noel.mcn.org/Westmoreland/Newspapers.htm|archive-date=10 March 2017}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated5>{{cite web|url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/helpdesk/personel.html|title=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Help Desk - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|website=pittsburghlive.com|access-date=18 March 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331205815/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/helpdesk/personel.html|archive-date=31 March 2010}}</ref> the paper circulated only in the eastern suburban counties of [[Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania|Westmoreland]] and parts of [[Indiana County, Pennsylvania|Indiana]] and [[Fayette County, Pennsylvania|Fayette]] until May 1992, when it began serving all of the [[Greater Pittsburgh]] metropolitan area after a strike at the two Pittsburgh dailies, the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' and ''[[The Pittsburgh Press]]'', deprived the city of a newspaper for several months.

The Tribune-Review Publishing Company was owned by [[Richard Mellon Scaife]], an heir to the [[Mellon family|Mellon]] banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, until his death in July 2014. Scaife was a major funder of conservative organizations, including the [[Arkansas Project]]. Accordingly, the ''Tribune-Review'' has maintained a conservative editorial stance, contrasting with the then-more liberal ''Post-Gazette'' before that paper's own editorial shift in 2018.<ref>{{cite book|last=Halllock|first=Steven M|title=Editorial and Opinion|date=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-99330-6|page=135|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MI8ZZpoKWD4C&pg=PA135 |access-date=March 3, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Phillips|first=Jenn|title=Insiders' Guide to Pittsburgh|date=March 1, 2005|isbn=9780762735075|page=441|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5LLLo1CV93QC&pg=PA442|edition=Third|author2=Loriann Hoff Oberlin|author3=Evan M. Pattak|publisher=Globe Pequot Press |access-date=March 3, 2014}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In addition to its flagship paper, the company publishes 17 weekly community newspapers,<ref>{{cite web|title=Weekly Community Newspaper|website=Trib Total Media|url=http://tribtotalmedia.com/index.php/products/bymedia/2|access-date=19 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313035709/http://tribtotalmedia.com/index.php/products/bymedia/2|archive-date=13 March 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the ''Pittsburgh Pennysaver'', TribLive.com, and TribTotalMedia.com.

== History == ===19th century=== [[File:Pittsburgh newspaper consolidation timeline.svg|right|250px|thumb|[[Pittsburgh]]'s newspaper consolidation timeline]] The paper began as the ''Gazette'' on August 22, 1811. After a series of name changes and mergers it became the ''Greensburg Daily Tribune'' in 1889.

===20th century=== In 1924, it and the ''Greensburg Morning Review'', launched by [[Dave Berry (American football)|David J. Berry]] in 1903,<ref>{{cite book|title=Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania|volume=3|last=Walkinshaw|first=Lewis Clark|page=435|location=New York|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc.|year=1939|url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pitttext;cc=pitttext;idno=03aee7995m;rgn=full%20text;didno=03aee7995m;view=image;seq=443;|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427142417/http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pitttext;cc=pitttext;idno=03aee7995m;rgn=full%20text;didno=03aee7995m;view=image;seq=443;|archive-date=2014-04-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=ACLCP Union List of Periodicals|volume=3|page=1710|entry=Morning review (Greensburg, Pa.)|quote=Began in Apr. 1903}}</ref> consolidated their interests under a single ownership.<ref name="trib1955">{{cite news|title=To Our Readers|date=29 September 1955|page=1|via=Google News Archive|journal=Greensburg Daily Tribune|edition=City|location=Greensburg, PA|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aJpWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5181%2C3302926}}</ref> Both papers continued separate publication until 1955, when they merged to form the ''Greensburg Tribune-Review''.<ref name="trib1955"/>

Scaife acquired the ''Tribune-Review'' in 1970, a decades after trying to acquire the ''Post-Gazette''. From 1981 to 1982, he managed a short-lived eastern suburban newspaper, ''The Daily-Sunday Tribune''.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news | url=http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/1997/08/25/story4.html | first=Patty | last=Tascarella | title=War of words | date=August 25, 1997 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630173549/http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/1997/08/25/story4.html | archive-date=June 30, 2015 }}</ref>

====Kent State and the Pulitzer====  The Tribune-Review owns several satellite papers that insert or surround the regional publication with neighborhood-specific stories. The ''Valley News Dispatch'', of Pittsburgh suburbs [[Tarentum, Pennsylvania|Tarentum]] and [[New Kensington, Pennsylvania|New Kensington]] is one such satellite. Local journalism student [[John Filo]] worked for the publication while attending nearby [[Kent State University]] and served as the ''Valley News Dispatch''{{'}}s correspondent of the [[Kent State shootings]]. His photography that day has ascended to iconic status and won the newspaper its only [[Pulitzer Prize]].

During a newspaper strike that temporarily shut down the ''Post-Gazette'' and ultimately closed the ''Pittsburgh Press'', Scaife launched the ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', an edition of the Greensburg-based ''Tribune-Review'' covering [[Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Allegheny County]] and Pittsburgh.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Over time, it became a stand-alone newspaper headquartered on Pittsburgh's North Side. In 1997, Scaife added to his small collection of newspapers by purchasing ''The Daily Courier'' of [[Connellsville, Pennsylvania|Connellsville]], the ''Leader Times'' of [[Kittanning, Pennsylvania|Kittanning]] and ''The Valley Independent'' of [[Monessen, Pennsylvania|Monessen]] from [[Thomson Newspapers]].<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/19981020thompson3.asp | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | title=Thomson to sell New Castle News | first1=Dan | last1=Fitzpatrick | date=October 20, 1998 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522071441/http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/19981020thompson3.asp | archive-date=May 22, 2011 }}</ref>

In late 1997, Scaife's NewsWorks facility opened in the [[North Hills (Pennsylvania)|North Hills]].<ref name=autogenerated3>{{cite news | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/1997/09/22/story2.html | first=Patty | last=Tascarella | title=North Hills News Record apparently on the block | date=September 22, 1997 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810110255/http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/1997/09/22/story2.html | archive-date=August 10, 2009 }}</ref> In December 1997, the Tribune-Review company purchased the ''North Hills News Record'', even though four months earlier, then-Trib president Ed Harrell told the ''Pittsburgh Business Times'' that the company was not interested in the ''News Record''.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> Nine months after purchasing the ''North Hills News Record'' from [[Gannett Company]], Tribune-Review Publishing Co. announced the paper would be merged with the ''Pittsburgh Trib''. ''The News Record'' was most successful during the newspaper strike of the early 1990s.<ref name=autogenerated2>{{Cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/19980911tribune4.asp | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | title=Tribune plans to merge papers | first1=Dan | last1=Fitzpatrick | date=September 11, 1998 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522071447/http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/19980911tribune4.asp | archive-date=May 22, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/1998/11/02/story2.html | first=Patty | last=Tascarella | title=Trib pushes North Hills daily inside | date=November 2, 1998 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060204201215/http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/1998/11/02/story2.html | archive-date=February 4, 2006 }}</ref>

At its demise, the ''North Hills News Record'' had a daily circulation of more than 16,000, nearly 1,000 less than its circulation before the Trib bought it.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> In early 2000, the Trib announced the "News Record" name would retire after more than two years of a combined "Tribune-Review/North Hills News Record" banner. North Hills coverage would be wrapped into the Trib's neighborhoods section.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20000212biz3.asp | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | title=Business Briefs, 2/11/2000 | date=February 12, 2000 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522071452/http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20000212biz3.asp | archive-date=May 22, 2011 }}</ref>

===21st century=== In 2000, the Trib announced it would convert its [[Irwin, Pennsylvania|Irwin]]-based paper, the daily (except Sunday) ''Standard Observer'', into a twice-weekly regional section of the Greensburg ''Tribune-Review''.<ref>{{Cite news| newspaper=The Indiana Gazette | location=Indiana, PA | title=Newspaper Cutting Back to Twice a Week | date=January 29, 2000 | page=4 }}</ref> Citing a "sagging economy", the Trib laid off more than four percent of its workforce in 2003, including [[freelance writer]]s.<ref name=autogenerated4>{{Cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03310/238997-59.stm | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | title=Westmoreland Briefs, 11/06/03 | date=November 6, 2003 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522071539/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03310/238997-59.stm | archive-date=May 22, 2011 }}</ref> More shakeups continued in 2005 as circulation numbers dropped and a top official left. An online message board featured back and forth fights between Pittsburgh and Greensburg employees.<ref name=autogenerated4 />

Edward Harrell, then-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, Pennsylvania|Tarentum]], ''The Leader-Times'' of [[Kittanning, Pennsylvania|Kittanning]], ''The Daily Courier'' of Connellsville and the ''Blairsville Dispatch''. ''The Valley Independent'', the only paper with a unionized newsroom and contract, was not affected.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/business/s_295006.html|title=Tribune-Review to reorganize papers - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|website=pittsburghlive.com|access-date=18 March 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050404123743/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/business/s_295006.html|archive-date=4 April 2005}}</ref>

The company incorporated as Trib Total Media in the summer of 2005 and purchased Gateway Newspapers, a community publication group servicing approximately 22 communities, at the time, in and around Pittsburgh's Allegheny County. The company immediately laid off two managers. The exact number of proposed redundancies was not announced.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05020/445110.stm | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | title=Shakeup at the Tribune-Review; layoffs expected at all newspapers | first=Dennis B. | last=Roddy | date=January 20, 2005 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051203032526/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05020/445110.stm | archive-date=December 3, 2005 }}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001096806]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=SheriffIsInTown |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Several staff writers were laid off in December 2005 as two of Gateway's newspapers were discontinued.

In May 2008, the ''Post-Gazette'' and the Trib reached a deal for one company to deliver both papers. The Post-Gazette would begin delivering the Trib to most of the area with some exceptions. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08150/885664-28.stm | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | title=Post-Gazette reaches deal to distribute Trib | date=May 29, 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601060710/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08150/885664-28.stm | archive-date=June 1, 2008 }}</ref> On June 20, 2008, Trib Total Media publicly announced it was closing several weekly newspapers in the Gateway Newspapers chain. The papers affected include: ''Bridgeville Area News'', ''North Journal'', ''McKnight Journal'', ''Woodland Progress'', ''Penn Hills Progress'', ''Coraopolis-Moon Record'' and the ''Advance Leader''. Many of those papers were several decades old.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08172/891490-100.stm | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | title=Tribune-Review closing 7 weekly papers | date=June 20, 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522071400/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08172/891490-100.stm | archive-date=May 22, 2011 }}</ref>

The company also announced major changes to the remaining Gateway publications including a revamp of the Pennysaver in the communities that have Gateway newspapers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_573665.html|title=Trib to cease publication of 7 weekly newspapers - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|website=pittsburghlive.com|access-date=18 March 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203061937/http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_573665.html|archive-date=3 February 2009}}</ref> Several published reports say the remaining community newspapers would expand coverage to include areas no longer serviced by Gateway publications. Other Gateway newspapers will now serve the communities served by those titles.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/06/23/story5.html | first=Tim | last=Schooley | title=Communities notified that seven Pittsburgh-area weekly newspapers will close | date=June 23, 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526010112/http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/06/23/story5.html | archive-date=May 26, 2011 }}</ref>

In November 2015, Trib Total Media announced that they would be cutting back on home delivery of printed newspapers and emphasize digital delivery.<ref name=tribrestruct>{{cite news|last1=The Tribune-Review|title=Trib Total Media announces restructuring to emphasize digital future|url=http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/9413865-74/digital-media-news#axzz3wQIazHaR|access-date=January 6, 2015|publisher=Trib Total Media, Inc.|date=November 10, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112030944/http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/9413865-74/digital-media-news#axzz3wQIazHaR|archive-date=November 12, 2015}}</ref> The restructuring included the sale of two dailies and six weeklies to West Penn Media.<ref name=tribsale>{{cite news|last1=The Tribune-Review|title=Trib Total Media finds Pa. buyer for daily newspapers in Kittanning, Connellsville, 6 weeklies|url=http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/9275234-74/media-daily-newspapers#axzz3wVB7g4kW|publisher=Trib Total Media, Inc.|access-date=January 6, 2016|date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101171335/http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/9275234-74/media-daily-newspapers#axzz3wVB7g4kW|archive-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref>

Two papers were closed,<ref name=pgclose>{{cite news|last1=Gannon|first1=Joyce|title=Trib Total Media says it will close McKeesport, Monessen newspapers|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2015/12/16/Trib-Total-Media-to-close-newspapers-in-McKeesport-Monessen/stories/201512160173|access-date=January 6, 2016|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|publisher=PG Publishing Co., Inc|date=December 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219084450/http://www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2015/12/16/Trib-Total-Media-to-close-newspapers-in-McKeesport-Monessen/stories/201512160173|archive-date=December 19, 2015}}</ref> ''The Daily News'' in McKeesport,<ref name=monclosed>{{cite news|last1=Frazier|first1=Carol Waterloo|last2=Sisk|first2=Jeffrey|title=Daily News thanks Mon Valley, publishes final edition after 131 years|url=http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourmckeesport/yourmckeesportmore/9678198-74/news-daily-newspaper|access-date=January 6, 2016|publisher=Trib Total Media, Inc.|date=December 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106213859/http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourmckeesport/yourmckeesportmore/9678198-74/news-daily-newspaper|archive-date=January 6, 2016}}</ref> and ''The Valley Independent'' in Monessen.<ref name=valleyclosed>{{cite news|last1=Paglia|first1=Ron|title=After 113 years, The Valley Independent prints final edition|url=http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourmonvalley/yourmonvalleymore/9709476-74/independent-valley-pore#axzz3wVB7g4kW|access-date=January 6, 2016|publisher=Trib Total Media, Inc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106215204/http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourmonvalley/yourmonvalleymore/9709476-74/independent-valley-pore|archive-date=January 6, 2016}}</ref>

The remaining papers, in Pittsburgh, Greensburg, and Tarentum, became regional editions of a single title, the ''Tribune-Review''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gannon|first1=Joyce|title=Trib Total Media to drop print edition in Pittsburgh|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2016/09/28/Tribune-Review-to-drop-Pittsburgh-print-edition/stories/201609280147|access-date=October 3, 2017|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=September 28, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005202648/http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2016/09/28/Tribune-Review-to-drop-Pittsburgh-print-edition/stories/201609280147|archive-date=October 5, 2017}}</ref> Home delivery was reduced in some parts of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties.<ref name=pgclose/> Trib Total Media laid off 153 full and part-time workers from its staff of approximately 1,100, another 68 had accepted buyouts in October.<ref name="tribrestruct"/>

The Pittsburgh edition of the ''Tribune-Review'' went all-digital after publishing its last print edition on November 30, 2016. The Greensburg-based Westmoreland edition and the Tarentum-based Valley News Dispatch edition remained in print.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-tribune-review-prints-final-newspaper/8382717|website=WTAE.com|title=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review prints last paper; over 100 laid off|agency=Associated Press|date=November 30, 2016|access-date=October 3, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005202920/http://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-tribune-review-prints-final-newspaper/8382717|archive-date=October 5, 2017}}</ref>

== Investigations and controversies ==

The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', through reporter [[Chris Ruddy]] was heavily involved in spreading rumors about the death of [[Vincent Foster]], an aide to the [[Bill Clinton]] administration.<ref name="washingtonpost.com">{{cite web |last=Harris |first=John F. |last2=Baker |first2=Peter |date=1997-01-10 |title=White House Memo Asserts a Scandal Theory |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/stories/pj011097.htm |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=The Washington Post}}</ref> The Clinton White House had commissioned a report entitled the "Communication stream of conspiracy commerce" which came to light in 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gold |first=Hadas |date=2014-04-18 |title=The Clintons' 'conspiracy commerce' memo |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/04/the-clintons-conspiracy-commerce-memo-187092 |access-date=2024-07-10 |work=Politico}}</ref>

[[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]].<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-plants-open-to-terrorists-13-11-2003/ | work=CBS News | title=U.S. Plants: Open To Terrorists | date=November 13, 2003 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050216084043/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/13/60minutes/main583528.shtml | archive-date=February 16, 2005 }}</ref>

The reporters, and a CBS camera operator, were charged with trespassing at a Neville Island plant during their investigation.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_west/2031002trespasswest4p4.asp | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | title=Journalists cited for trespassing at Neville Island chemical plant | date=October 2, 2003 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628175918/http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_west/2031002trespasswest4p4.asp | archive-date=June 28, 2011 }}</ref> They were later acquitted when the judge accepted that the story had been in the public interest.<ref>[http://www.pittsburghlive.com/pages/pdf/gtr030404.pdf#search='Carl%20Prine%20Gallo'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104233246/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/pages/pdf/gtr030404.pdf|date=2005-11-04}}</ref>

In 2007, Prine's further investigation into the subject was featured in the PBS documentary series ''[[Exposé: America's Investigative Reports]]'', in a two-part episode titled "Think Like A Terrorist".{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

One Tribune-Review flap went national when [[Colin McNickle]], then 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-Review''{{'}}s opinion pages. After the speech, there was a dispute between McNickle and Heinz Kerry over her use of the term "un-American activity".{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

== Circulation == The daily ''Tribune-Review'' is published in three geographic editions: Pittsburgh, Westmoreland, and Valley News Dispatch.

The ''Tribune-Review'' claimed to show the highest gains in readership over the past five years of any newspaper in America's top 48 markets, which were dominated by sinking readership. The growth can be attributed to purchases of other newspapers, which were then reclassified as editions of the ''Tribune-Review''. This idea was proposed to Scaife and Ralph Martin by David Horchak, the Circulation Director of The Valley News Dispatch. Taking advantage of ABC rules that allowed declaring newspapers to include all circulation of a newspaper to be declared editions of a main newspaper. This did not keep David Horchak on when the ''Tribune-Review'' decided to have just two circulation directors after personnel cuts.

According to surveys by International Demographics Inc., an independent media research firm in Houston, the number of ''Tribune-Review'' readers jumped 17.8 percent from 2007 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://triblive.com/business/headlines/3527779-74/trib-media-readership#axzz2Ut1uP1HN|title=Trib shows most readership gains in U.S.|first=Thomas|last=Olson|website=TribLIVE.com|access-date=18 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319085021/http://triblive.com/business/headlines/3527779-74/trib-media-readership#axzz2Ut1uP1HN|archive-date=19 March 2018}}</ref>

As part of the Trib Total Media conglomerate, the ''Tribune-Review'' has a news exchange partnership with WPXI, Pittsburgh's NBC affiliate. Until 2013, it was a sister publication to Pittsburgh's second-largest news radio station, [[KQV]]. Trib Total Media is the Official Newspaper of the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] and the [[Pittsburgh Penguins]] (the latter of which Scaife was a co-founder in [[1967 NHL expansion|1967]]). It has strong partnerships with many nonprofit and community businesses and organizations throughout Western Pennsylvania.

== See also == {{Portal|Journalism}} * [[Arkansas Project]] * [[Brad Bumsted]] * [[Randy Bish]] * ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]''

== Notes and references == {{Reflist|2}}

== External links == {{Commons category}} * {{Official website|http://www.triblive.com }} * [https://www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/trials-and-trib-ulations-1337708/ "Trials and Trib-ulations: An insider's look at Pittsburgh's second daily"], ''[[Pittsburgh City Paper]]'', September 1, 2005

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