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North County News Tribune
TypeWeekly newspaper
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    • The North County News Tribune, formerly the Fullerton News Tribune was once the oldest continuously published independent daily newspaper in

    Orange County Register. The Register is currently a property of Digital First Media
    .

    History

    Founded by Edgar Johnson with over 300+ subscribers in 1891, the newspaper was first published as the Weekly Tribune of Orange County.[1] By 1914, The Tribune had moved to 5 times a week publication.[2]

    The News Tribune name was the product of the 1926 merger of the Fullerton News and the Fullerton Daily Tribune.[3] After the merger, the News Tribune was sold three years later for $125,000[4] to W. Kee Maxwell in 1929.

    In the early and middle part of the 20th century, the Fullerton News Tribune was one of the more modern California daily newspaper organizations; it was the first California newspaper to print with Linotype printing presses, and the first small city daily in Southern California to have leased a teletype news wire and a

    UPI photo wire service.[1]

    The Fullerton News Tribune was sold to Edgar F. Elstrom in 1939. Elfstrom had worked as the secretary to newspaper magnate

    Santa Ana Register
    owner R.C. Hoiles to not expand the News Tribune into greater parts of Anaheim, Villa Park, and Orange. In return, the Santa Ana Register would not actively expand more into the News Tribune's primary North Orange County circulation areas.

    On December 28, 1973, after deciding to retire, Daily News Tribune owner Edgar Elfstrom sold the News Tribune to the

    Scripps-Howard Newspaper chain.[5][6] Over the next 10 years, the Daily News Tribune was not actively supported by Scripps Howard, a very large news organization chain which had no other daily newspapers west of Denver, Colorado. After 1978, the News Tribune experienced ongoing declines in circulation, and in consultation with its parent company, Scripps Howard, the newspaper cut nearly 25% of the paper's editorial staff in 1983.[6] The newspaper then also reduced daily coverage areas,[6] and the News Tribune finally changed to once weekly publication in 1985.[2] Until it moved to a weekly publication schedule in 1985, The Daily News Tribune was Orange County's longest-running daily newspaper.[2] The Daily News Tribune was purchased in 1987 by Community Media Enterprises.[2] In 1992, The News Tribune was sold to Freedom Newspapers of Santa Ana, for an undisclosed sum.[7]
    Freedom Newspapers also owned the Orange County Register and the Fullerton News Tribune became a local weekly edition of the larger Register.

    References

    1. ^ a b c "Fullerton News Tribune Observes 50th Anniversary". The Los Angeles Times. 13 April 1941.
    2. ^ a b c d "San Diego Company Buys Fullerton Paper". The Los Angeles Times.
    3. ^ "About The news tribune". Chronicling America.
    4. ^ "Fullerton News-Tribune Is Sold for $160,000 to W. K. Maxwell of Illinois". Santa Ana Register.
    5. ^ "Elfstrom sells Fullerton News-Tribune". Redlands Daily Facts. 28 Dec 1973.
    6. ^ a b c O'DELL, JOHN (1 April 1983). "Fullerton News Tribune Cuts Its Circulation Area and Staff". The Los Angeles Times.
    7. ^ "Freedom Newspapers Buys Fullerton Weekly". The Los Angeles Times. 1 Aug 1992.
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