The
Star Tribune is the largest
newspaper in the
U.S. state of
Minnesota. Its origins date to the founding of the
Minneapolis Tribune in 1867 and the competing
Minneapolis Daily Star in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, Minneapolis's competing newspapers were consolidated under a single owner with the
Star as the city's morning newspaper and the
Tribune as the evening newspaper. The two were merged in 1982 creating a single newspaper with the combined name of
Star Tribune. After a tumultuous period where the newspaper was sold and re-sold and later forced to declare bankruptcy in 2009, it was purchased by local businessman
Glen Taylor in 2014.