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A St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press front page dated August 12, 1945 featuring the first publication of the mushroom cloud during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.. The Pioneer Press traces its history to both the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesota's first daily newspaper (founded in 1849 by James M. Goodhue), and the Saint Paul Dispatch (launched in 1868).
The earliest paper was the Minnesota Weekly Democrat in St. Paul in 1803 well before statehood in 1858. [3] There are three newspapers that trace their roots back to before Minnesota statehood in 1858. The oldest, continually published newspaper is the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Knight Ridder continued to publish the Pioneer Press and Dispatch as independent daily newspapers until 1985, when they merged to become the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch. In 1990 the owners dropped the word Dispatch from the name, bringing to an end the Dispatch's 122-year run as a prominent feature on the St. Paul media landscape.
Donald Riley (November 10, 1923 – December 31, 2015) was an American sportswriter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper covering Minnesota sports, from 1943 to 1988 through his "Eye Opener" column. [1] Born in New Richmond, Wisconsin, Riley grew up in Minneapolis and attended Roosevelt High School. He joined the Pioneer Press after high ...
James Madison Goodhue (March 31, 1810 – August 27, 1852) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and founder of the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesota's first newspaper, which eventually merged with the Saint Paul Dispatch to become the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He is the namesake of Goodhue County.
Instead, that honor — and those ad rates — will fall to the daily St. Paul Pioneer Press, which has been publishing under various titles since 1849. The Pioneer Press was the only newspaper to ...
It then moved to the St. Paul Pioneer Press; Li'l Folks ran in the women's section of the paper. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association (a Scripps Company). He would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through.
Herbert L. Lewis (Lefkovitz, Lefkowitz) (1898-1971) was an American journalist and newspaper editor.He was the editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press (formerly the Dispatch) from 1949 to 1964 and a longtime contributor to the New York Times, who played a key role in transforming St. Paul into a model of good government.