The East Valley Tribune is a daily newspaper serving the East Valley region of metropolitan Phoenix, including cities of Mesa, Arizona, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Scottsdale and surrounding areas in Arizona's Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as The Valley of the Sun or simply The Valley. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Freedom Communications Logo Freedom Communications, Inc. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona and part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Area. ... It has been suggested that Arizona Governors Mansion be merged into this article or section. ... Nickname: Valley of the Sun Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area    - City 1,230. ... Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona and part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Area. ... Downtown Tempe and Arizona State University Tempe (pronounced ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, with a population of 161,143 according to 2005 Census Bureau estimates. ... Chandler (Pima: Canli) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 176,582. ... Gilbert is a town located in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. Gilbert was the fastest-growing incorporated place of over 100,000 people in the US from 1990 to 2000, as well as in the 2002, 2003, and 2004 Census estimates. ... Scottsdale is a satellite city of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. Named by the New York Times as The Beverly Hills of the Desert,[2] Scottsdale has become internationally recognized as a premiere and posh tourist destination, while maintaining its own identity and culture as The Wests Most... It has been suggested that Arizona Governors Mansion be merged into this article or section. ... The Phoenix metropolitan area, locally known as the Valley of the Sun (or just The Valley), is a metropolitan area that includes Phoenix, Arizona, and all of the rest of Maricopa County, Pinal County, and Yavapai County. ... The Phoenix metropolitan area, sometimes referred to locally as the Valley of the Sun, is a metropolitan area that includes the City of Phoenix, most of the rest of Maricopa County, a large section of Pinal County, and small parts of southern Yavapai County. ...

It resulted from the combination of local newspapers acquired by Cox Enterprises: The Mesa Tribune, the Tempe Daily News, the Scottsdale Progress, and the Chandler Arizonan. The East Valley Tribune is now owned by Freedom Communications of Irvine, California, parent company of the Orange County Register. Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... The Tempe Daily News was an afternoon newspaper that was published in Tempe, AZ, a suburb of Phoenix. ... Freedom Communications Logo Freedom Communications, Inc. ... Location of Irvine within Orange County, California. ... The Orange County Register is a daily newspaper published in Santa Ana, California. ...

History

In 1891, Mesa's first newspaper, the Evening Weekly Free Press, was founded by attorney Alfred P. Shewman and Judge W.D. Morton. In 1899, Judge W.D. Morton sold out to Shewman, who died in 1901. Frank T. Pomeroy and Harry D. Haines bought the paper in 1910 and converted into a daily publication, The Evening Press. In 1911, the paper was sold and in 1913 became the Mesa Daily Tribune. In 1925 the paper was renamed the Mesa Daily Journal. In 1928 it was published as the Daily Mesa Evening Journal. In 1932 Southside Publishing Company, a corporation of Mesa and Chandler businessmen, acquired ownership. Over the next 7 years stock was purchased by P.R. Mitten and his son, Charles. In 1939 Charles Mitten bought out his father's share. Mitten began printing the paper 5 days a week after WWII under the name of the Mesa Daily Tribune. In 1950 Mitten sold the Tribune to David W. Calvert. In 1952, the Tribune Publishing Company was incorporated. On January 26, 1956, the Tribune publishing plant on Macdonald Street was destroyed by fire and opened five months later at 120 W. 1st Avenue, where it remains today. In 1977, Cox Enterprises of Atlanta, GA, purchased the Tribune from Calvert. Cox Newspapers purchased the Tempe Daily News in 1980, the Chandler Arizonan in 1983, started the Gilbert Tribune in 1990, and purchased the Scottsdale Progress in 1993. Cox Newspapers sold its newspaper holdings to Thomson Newspapers in December, 1996 and in May of 1997, under the leadership of its published, Karen Wittmer, all five newspapers were combined into one newspaper, The Tribune, serving eastern Maricopa County with a Scottsdale edition serving its northern communities. In December of 1997, the Daily News-Sun in Sun City, Arizona, and the Ahwatukee Foothills News, on the southeastern border of Phoenix, in November of 1998, joined the Tribune as part of its Phoenix SMG (Strategic Marketing Group). In December of 1999, the Tribune was renamed the East Valley Tribune and in August, 2000, Thomson Newspapers sold its newspaper holdings to Freedom Communications, Inc. of Irvine, Calif.

References

1. ^ Freedom Communications Community Newspapers: East Valley Tribune & Scottsdale Tribune. Freedom Communications, Inc.. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.

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External links

• East Valley Tribune official site