The Durango Herald is a newspaper in Durango, Colorado .
48-494: The first edition of the Herald came out June 30, 1881. Two years later, the Herald merged with the Record , which had started publishing in 1880, seven months before the Herald . The modern Herald traces its roots to both papers but the current Herald nameplate cites 1881 as the paper's founding year. The paper was combined in 1952 after Arthur and Morley Cowles Ballantine purchased
96-783: A school of journalism at the University of Minnesota . After a brief transitional period, Murphy's younger brother Frederick E. Murphy became the Tribune 's publisher in 1921. The other half of the newspaper's history begins with the Minnesota Daily Star , which was founded on August 19, 1920, by elements of the agrarian Nonpartisan League and backed by Thomas Van Lear and Herbert Gaston. The Daily Star had difficulty attracting advertisers with its overtly political agenda and went bankrupt in 1924. After its purchase by A. B. Frizzell and former New York Times executive John Thompson,
144-550: A Colorado newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Morley Cowles Ballantine Elizabeth Morley Cowles Gale Ballantine (May 21, 1925 – October 10, 2009), known as Morley Cowles Ballantine , was an American newspaper publisher, editor, philanthropist, and women's rights activist. Scion of an Iowan newspaper publishing family, she and her second husband, Arthur A. Ballantine, purchased two Durango, Colorado newspapers in 1952, which they merged into The Durango Herald by 1960. The couple also started
192-684: A metro edition for the Minneapolis–St. Paul area and a state edition for areas beyond the metropolitan area. 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 metropolitan area, and the Pioneer Press is more popular in the eastern metro area. The newspapers share some printing and delivery operations. The Star Tribune went online in 1995, introducing
240-474: A new, $ 110 million printing plant, called the Heritage Center, in a historic warehouse district on the northern edge of downtown Minneapolis. Its five offset presses took over printing all Star Tribune editions. News and business offices remained in the downtown headquarters, whose old presses were removed. In 2014, the company announced that it would relocate from the 95-year-old headquarters building to
288-645: Is Minnesota's largest newspaper and the seventh-largest in the United States by circulation, and is distributed throughout the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the state, and the Upper Midwest . It originated as the Minneapolis Tribune in 1867 and the competing Minneapolis Daily Star in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, the two papers consolidated, with the Tribune published in
336-634: The COVID-19 pandemic . It shuttered in October 2020, and the website was moved to the Hennepin County Library 's archives. After the 1987 formation of the Star Tribune , the newspaper was published in three editions: one for Minneapolis and the western suburbs, one for St. Paul and the eastern suburbs, and a state edition for Minnesota and the Midwest. The St. Paul edition was discontinued in 1999 in favor of
384-580: The Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2014. Elizabeth Morley Cowles was born on May 21, 1925, in Des Moines, Iowa , the eldest of four children of John Cowles Sr. and his wife Elizabeth (née Bates). Her grandfather, Gardner Cowles Sr. , had bought The Des Moines Register in 1903; her father became vice president, general manager and associate publisher of the Des Moines morning and evening newspapers in
432-526: The Herald-Democrat and the News . In 1960, the name was changed to The Durango Herald . Arthur was co-editor and co-publisher of the paper from 1952 until 1975. Morley was also co-editor and co-publisher and took over as chairman and editor after Arthur's death. She served as editor until her death in 2009. Her son Richard Ballantine took over the role of publisher in 1980. He retired in 2013, and Douglas Bennett
480-577: The Minneapolis Star and Tribune . Cowles Jr. fired publisher Donald R. Dwight . His handling of Dwight's termination led to his removal as editor in 1983, although his family retained a controlling financial interest in the newspaper. In 1983, the Star and Tribune challenged a Minnesota tax on paper and ink before the Supreme Court of the United States . In Minneapolis Star Tribune Co. v. Commissioner ,
528-607: The Star . Under him, it had the city's highest circulation, pressuring Minneapolis's other newspapers. In 1939, the Cowles family purchased the Minneapolis Evening Journal , merging the two newspapers into the Star-Journal . Tribune publisher Fred Murphy died in 1940; the next year, the Cowles family bought the Tribune and merged it with their company, giving it ownership of the city's major newspapers. The Tribune became
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#1733085765180576-597: The Star Tribune and its predecessor newspapers have won seven Pulitzer Prizes . The Star Tribune 's roots date to the creation of the Minneapolis Daily Tribune by Colonel William S. King , William D. Washburn , and Dorilus Morrison . The two men previously operated different Minneapolis newspapers, the State Atlas and the Minneapolis Daily Chronicle. The newspaper was designed to unify
624-542: The Star Tribune for several years. On December 26, 2006, McClatchy sold the paper to private equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $ 530 million, less than half of what it had paid for Cowles eight years earlier. In March 2007, Par Ridder was appointed Star Tribune publisher after his predecessor, J. Keith Moyer, left the newspaper after the sale. Ridder is a member of the Ridder family, which had owned Knight Ridder (publishers of several newspapers, including at that time
672-875: The University of Denver , the Fountain Valley School , the Durango Arts Center, and the San Juan County Historical Society. The fund has been operated by trustees since the Ballantines' deaths; in 2017 it awarded more than $ 300,000 in grants. Ballantine actively supported women's rights both in her professional and philanthropic work. She wrote editorials promoting equal pay for equal work , workplace harassment , and pro-choice . Unlike other Colorado publishers, Ballantine gave money as well as endorsements to women's political campaigns. She
720-644: The University of Minnesota . However, she did not earn an undergraduate degree until 1975, receiving her BA in Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. In July 1944 she married Richard P. Gale Jr., a private in the United States Army. They had one son, Richard. Gale committed suicide in March 1946. In July 1947 she remarried to Arthur A. Ballantine, a graduate of Harvard and Yale who
768-804: The 1920s. In 1935, when her grandfather, father, and uncle Gardner Cowles Jr. bought The Minneapolis Star , her father moved the family to Minneapolis . Her mother was active in women's rights and civil rights, being the founder of the Planned Parenthood branch in Iowa and a lifetime member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . Elizabeth attended the Greenwood Elementary School in Des Moines. She went on to study at Smith College , Stanford University , and
816-610: The Ballantine Family Fund, which supported arts and education in Southwest Colorado . After her husband's death in 1975, Ballantine took over the chairmanship of the family-owned publishing company, continuing to produce a weekly column and editorials. She received many journalism awards and several honorary degrees. She was inducted into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame in 2002 and was posthumously inducted into
864-651: The Colorado Land Use Commission, the state board for National Historic Preservation, and the state Commission on the Status of Women (1973–1975). Ballantine received numerous journalism awards. Her first, in 1953, was a first-place prize from the Colorado Press Association (CPA) for an editorial supporting the right of the President of the United States "to negotiate state treaties". She won five of
912-744: The Durango Area Chamber Resort Association renamed its annual Athena Award as the Morley Ballantine Award. In 2014 Ballantine was posthumously inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame . Ballantine died of respiratory failure at her home in Durango on October 10, 2009, aged 84. Star Tribune The Minnesota Star Tribune , formerly the Minneapolis Star Tribune , is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis , Minnesota . As of 2023, it
960-495: The StarTribune.com website the following year. In 2011, the website erected a paywall . The Star Tribune has five main sections: main news, local news, sports, business, and variety (lifestyle and entertainment). Special weekly sections include Taste (restaurants and cooking), travel, Outdoors Weekend, and Science + Health. The Sunday edition has a more prominent editorial and opinion section, Opinion Exchange. Journalists with
1008-593: The Women's Foundation of Colorado. Active in the League of Women Voters for more than five decades, she served on the state board of that organization from 1960 to 1965. She was a trustee of Simpson College , Fort Lewis College, and the University of Denver. Ballantine was a member of local arts and library boards, as well as state planning commissions, including the Anti-Discrimination Commission (1959–1961),
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#17330857651801056-445: The aftermath of becoming widows. Neither remarried. In June 1952 the Ballantines purchased two Durango -area newspapers, the daily Durango Herald-Democrat and the weekly Durango News , and relocated their family to the city. By 1960 they had merged both publications into The Durango Herald . Morley served as editor while Arthur managed the financial side of the newspaper; they worked at adjoining desks. Under their stewardship,
1104-474: The arts and education in Southwest Colorado . Its early grants included the development of Fort Lewis College from a two-year agricultural and mechanical college to a four-year college, and the establishment of the campus' Center of Southwest Studies with an initial donation of $ 10,000 in 1964. The Ballantines gifted more than $ 1 million to the Center in its first 40 years of existence. Other fund beneficiaries were
1152-615: The board of the newspaper after her husband's death in 1975. She continued to serve as editor, but passed on the duties of publisher to her son, Richard, in 1983. She expanded the holdings of the family-owned publishing company with the acquisition of the Cortez Journal and the Mancos Times in 1999 and the Dolores Star in 2000. The couple founded the Ballantine Family Fund in 1957. The fund supported non-profit organizations for
1200-489: The building and presses were a total loss. In 1891, the Tribune was purchased by Gilbert A. Pierce and William J. Murphy for $ 450,000 (equivalent to $ 13.8 million in 2023 ). Pierce quickly sold his share to Thomas Lowry , and Lowry sold it to Murphy, making Murphy the newspaper's sole owner. His business and legal background helped him structure the Tribune 's debt and modernize its printing equipment. The newspaper experimented with partial-color printing and
1248-590: The city's morning newspaper, the Star-Journal (renamed the Star in 1947) was the evening newspaper, and they published a joint Sunday edition. A separate evening newspaper (the Times ) was spun off and published separately until 1948. In 1944, John Cowles Sr. hired Wisconsin native and former Tulsa Tribune editor William P. Steven as managing editor of the two newspapers; Steven became vice president and executive editor in 1954. During his tenure in Minneapolis, he
1296-632: The company was acquired by Glen Taylor , owner of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx . A former Republican state senator, Taylor said the Star Tribune would be less liberal under his ownership. He also said the paper had already begun a shift and would focus on accurately reporting both sides of all issues. In May 2015, the company acquired alternative weekly City Pages from Voice Media Group . City Pages continued publishing until it became another victim of advertising revenue loss and
1344-705: The court found that the tax (which targeted specific newspapers) violated the First Amendment . In 1987, the newspaper's name was simplified to Star Tribune , and the slogan "Newspaper of the Twin Cities" was added. In 1998, the McClatchy Company purchased Cowles Media Company for $ 1.4 billion, ending the newspaper's 61-year history in the family in one of the largest sales in American newspaper history. Although McClatchy sold many of Cowles's smaller assets, it kept
1392-738: The first woman to receive the latter degree. Ballantine was honored as 1990 Citizen of the Year by the Durango Area Chamber of Commerce and 2000 Colorado Philanthropist of the Year by the Governor's Commission on National Community Service and the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. She was the 2001 Arts and Humanities Honoree of the Bonfils–Stanton Foundation. She was inducted into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2007,
1440-586: The former the Daily Star headquarters in downtown Minneapolis. The building was renovated from 1939 to 1940 and expanded in a larger renovation from 1946 to 1949. After 1949, the building housed the offices and presses of the Star and the Tribune. During the 1980s, an annex, the Freeman Building, was built across the street from the headquarters and connected with a skyway . In 1987, the Star Tribune opened
1488-524: The local Republican Party under one newspaper. The Tribune 's first issue was published on May 25, 1867. The newspaper went through several different editors and publishers during its first two decades, including John T. Gilman, George K. Shaw, Albert Shaw , and Alden J. Blethen . In 1878, the Minneapolis Evening Journal began publication, giving the Tribune its first competition. On November 30, 1889, downtown Minneapolis's Tribune headquarters caught fire. Seven people were killed and 30 injured, and
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1536-558: The morning and the Star in the evening. They merged in 1982, creating the Minneapolis Star and Tribune , renamed the Star Tribune in 1987. After a tumultuous period in which the newspaper was sold and resold and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, it was purchased by local billionaire and former Minnesota State Senator Glen Taylor in 2014. In 2024, the paper was renamed The Minnesota Star Tribune . The Star Tribune typically contains national, international, and local news, sports, business, and lifestyle stories. Journalists from
1584-541: The new publisher after Michael Klingensmith stepped down. Grove was the head of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development under Minnesota Governor Tim Walz . He formerly worked as a reporter and a Google executive, leading the Google News Lab . Klingensmith had served as publisher since 2010. After the Cowles family consolidated the city's newspapers, their offices were gradually moved to
1632-571: The newly christened Star Tribune Building at the Capella Tower complex, making way for development around nearby U.S. Bank Stadium . Demolition of the buildings began in 2014; the last employees relocated in mid-2015, and the demolition was completed later that year. Also in 2014, the Star Tribune's Heritage printing plant began printing the St. Paul Pioneer Press under a contract with its cross-town rival. The following year, USA Today contracted with
1680-488: The newspaper "championed educational and cultural causes and promoted progressive government". Ballantine wrote a weekly column as well as editorials which addressed both local and international issues, signing her columns with the initials "MCB". In some instances, she and her husband wrote opposing editorials, as during the 1968 United States presidential election , when she endorsed Hubert Humphrey and he endorsed Richard Nixon . She also penned an advice column . She
1728-461: The newspaper became the politically independent Minneapolis Daily Star . In 1935, the Cowles family of Des Moines, Iowa purchased the Star . The family patriarch, Gardner Cowles Sr. , had purchased The Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Tribune during the first decade of the century and managed them successfully. Gardner's son, John Cowles Sr. , moved to Minneapolis to manage
1776-572: The post-bankruptcy company. Since 2010, the Star Tribune has given out awards to the "Top 150 Workplaces in Minnesota". Since the Star Tribune 's bankruptcy, its former ownership group, led by New York City–based Avista Capital Partners, has no stake in the company. Wayzata Investment Partners became majority owner of the Star Tribune Company in August 2012, with a 58% stake. In 2014,
1824-467: The pre-merger Minneapolis Star and Minneapolis Tribune won three Pulitzer Prizes : Star Tribune journalists have won three Pulitzers: In 2021, the staff of the Star Tribune won the Pulitzer prize for breaking news coverage for the "urgent, authoritative and nuanced" coverage of the murder of George Floyd . Columnists affiliated with the Star Tribune include: In April 2023, Steve Grove became
1872-441: The rival St. Paul Pioneer Press ). Ridder's arrival resulted in litigation when it was discovered that he had stolen a hard drive containing information about employees and advertisers, which the Pioneer Press called "trade secrets". Ridder also took two high-ranking staff members to the Minneapolis paper, which raised eyebrows since such employees usually have non-compete clauses in their contracts. On September 18, 2007, Ridder
1920-410: The seventeen CPA awards received by The Durango Herald in 1956. Among the shared awards won by Ballantine and her husband was a 1967 outstanding journalism award from the University of Colorado School of Journalism. She received an honorary degree from Simpson College in 1980, an honorary doctorate from the University of Denver in 2002, and an honorary doctorate from Fort Lewis College in 2004, being
1968-475: The use of halftone for photographs and portraits. In 1893, Murphy sent the Tribune 's first correspondent to Washington, D.C. As Minneapolis grew, the newspaper's circulation expanded; the Tribune and the Evening Journal were closely competitive, with the smaller Minneapolis Times in third place. In 1905, Murphy bought out the Times and merged it with the Tribune . He died in 1918, endowing
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2016-571: Was a strong supporter of EMILY's List , and also donated to the campaigns of women candidates in other states. She was a primary supporter of the Durango Clinic run by Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood , which awarded her its Margaret Sanger Award in 2004. In 1968 Ballantine became the first woman chair for the Colorado Associated Press Association. She was a founding member of the Women's Resource Center in Durango and
2064-454: Was considered "progressive" for employing both men and women as advisors. Her connections as the scion of a prominent newspaper family afforded her broader contacts than would normally be available to a small-town publisher. She was photographed sitting beside President John F. Kennedy at a 1962 luncheon for Colorado publishers and editors at the White House . Ballantine became chairman of
2112-399: Was editor of the two newspapers; he became president in 1968 and editorial chairman the following year. He had a progressive political viewpoint, publishing editorials supporting the civil rights movement and liberal causes. In 1982, the afternoon Star was discontinued due to dwindling circulation, a trend common for afternoon newspapers. The two papers merged into a single morning paper,
2160-524: Was employed as a reporter for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune owned by her father. The couple had one son and two daughters. My mother has been called the ' Kay Graham of Colorado'. Both were born to powerful newspaper families, and both were pushed to leadership at the death of a spouse who was a newspaper publisher. (Morley, however, was experienced as a newspaper columnist.) Both women became charismatic and forceful business and cultural leaders in
2208-695: Was installed as CEO of Ballantine Communications, Inc., the Herald 's parent company. The Herald has won numerous awards, given by entities such as the Society of Professional Journalists , the Colorado Associated Press Reporters and Editors, and the Colorado Press Association . In 2002, the Herald received the Sigma Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism for public service. This article about
2256-438: Was president of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association in 1949 and first chairman of the organization's Continuing Study Committee. By August 1960, John Cowles Jr. was vice president and associate editor of the two papers, and it was soon apparent that he disapproved of Steven's hard-nosed approach to journalism. When Steven chafed under the younger Cowles's management, he was fired. After Steven's ouster, Cowles Jr.
2304-462: Was removed from his post by a Ramsey County judge, and he resigned on December 7. On January 15, 2009, the paper, then the country's 15th-largest daily, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 . On September 17, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved a bankruptcy plan for the Star Tribune , which emerged from bankruptcy protection on September 28. The paper's senior secured lenders received about 95% of
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