SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE

Updated 04-May-2020.

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Todd Schurz on sale of South Bend Tribune, other papers: ‘It was time for our family to exit’: “These newspapers will be better and stronger with GateHouse,” writes CEO of Schurz Communications

GateHouse Media buys South Bend Tribune, other newspapers from Schurz Communications: Commitment to readers, advertisers remains the same, Tribune publisher says

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the South Bend Tribune is a daily newspaper and news website based in south Bend, Indiana . it is the third largest daily broadsheet newspaper in the state of Indiana by circulation . the Tribune was locally and family owned by Schur the South Bend Tribune was sold to GateHouse Media on Feb. 1, 2019 . on Nov. 19, 2019, the south bend Tribune became a Gannett newspaper . the Tribune moved out of the Tribune Building at 225 W. Col the newspaper staff moved into Union Station Technology Center, 501 W. South St. in downtown South Bend . plans in spring 2020 to move into a new permanent home in a former Studebaker Corp. assembly plant . top executives in 2020 are executive editor Alan Achkar and advertising director Shelley Chakan . Miller and Crockett, union veterans of the civil war founded the Tribune in 1872 . the Tribune was founded as a Republican newspaper the first four-page edition of The Tribune was published on a Saturday evening, march 9, 1872 . Miller was skilled in editing and writing, and Crockett was a mechanical man who handled the presses . no city in the state is growing so rapidly as South Bend . the city’s reading population has increased nearly one half, the editors wrote . they operated the newspaper together until Miller’s death in 1892 . F.A. Miller served as editor and publisher of The Tribune from 1892 until his death at age 86 on Nov. 29, 1954 . in a political philosophy inherited from his Civil War veteran father, “ran The Tribune as Miller’s editorial battles on the local scene were intense, especially against city administrations he regarded as corrupt . “in 1928 he conducted full scale war against the regime of mayor Chester R. Montgomery,” the Tribune says bob greene: F.A. Miller hated mistakes in print, and his rules forbid staff smoking on duty . he says Miller disliked cigarettes, and staff members were not allowed to smoke . browne: Miller the Tribune moved in to its current office in April 1921 . it is the newspaper’s fourth location since its founding . Miller and his wife had no children . born in South Bend on March 8, 1898, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Schurz . he earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s of business administration degree from Harvard . the Tribune has been south Bend’s only daily newspaper since its rival, the South Bend News-Times, ceased publication in December 1938 . the Tribune’s aggressive reporting helped push the Tribune past the news-times, which the shuttering left 7,000 employees without work and was among the biggest blows ever to the city’s economy . sports editor Joe Doyle was a close confidant of coach ara parseghian . he forrest “Woody” Miller covered Irish men’s basketball for decades . Descendants of the founders served as editor and publisher for many years . the Tribune has had a newsroom internship program since about 1960 former South Bend Tribune reporting interns include: David Haugh, now a sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune . like other newspapers, the Tribune has had challenges keeping its circulation numbers up . the Tribune reached a peak of more the paper was sold by Schurz Communications along with the rest of its publishing division to GateHouse Media . president and CEO of the company explained the reasoning of the sale in a column . “these newspapers will be better and