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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.
Owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from 1935 to 1998 [citation needed], other newspapers owned at one time by Cowles Media and its affiliates included the Des Moines Register, the Buffalo Courier-Express, the Scottsdale Progress and the Rapid City Journal. The company also owned the Register and Tribune Syndicate (established in 1922).
On a daily basis, Gordon worked the sports desk for the Minneapolis Star, [20] the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Villager newspapers in the Twin Cities. [21] He wrote articles about the Minnesota Twins baseball team, the Minnesota Golden Gophers, and the Minnesota Vikings.
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 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]