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John Cowles Jr. (May 27, 1929 – March 17, 2012) was an American editor and publisher, son of John Cowles Sr. (1898–1983). Cowles sat on the boards of directors of the Associated Press and Columbia University's Pulitzer Prizes and had been CEO of Cowles Media Company, founded by his grandfather and until 1998 the parent of the Star Tribune.
The Minnesota Star Tribune, formerly the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.As of 2023, it 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.
Star Tribune. According to the Minnesota Newspaper Association in 2020, there were 24 daily newspapers in print in Minnesota. [4] As of 2022, The Star Tribune has the largest print circulation in the state. The table below lists these daily newspapers that are printed at least five days a week.
He started at what is now the Star Tribune newspaper in 1973. Davis became assistant vice president in public affairs and assistant vice president in employee services. When he retired in 1987 he was vice president of the paper's parent company, Cowles Media. [5] The Star Tribune became part of McClatchy who sold it to Avista in 2006.
He worked as a staff writer for the Associated Press in Minneapolis from 1953 to 1961 and with the Minneapolis Tribune from 1961 to 1965. [6] He was the first to report on John F. Kennedy's defeat of Richard Nixon in 1960. [7] He became a columnist for the Minneapolis Star starting in 1965 where he covered sports and politics. [6]
Dickson was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1923. After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to Minneapolis in 1937. [2] He served in the United States Army, from 1943 to 1946, and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Minnesota, in 1948. [3]