I have been putting the Trib's copywrited stories in my page since I began this website over a year ago. After doing it for several months or republishing their stories I asked for permission but I never heard back. I later asked the editor about reposting Trib stories and was told unequivocally that I couldn't reproduce them. I'm not sure I agree. One question I've asked myself is whether the stories have any commercial value after the papers they were published in have been sold.
News is a very short lived commodity turning immediately into history.
The paper does sell its archived stories on the web for several dollars each although I doubt the papers receive much revenue for this source. Paying this much for a story is really paying for the convenience of looking it up at home. I don't think so. It is unlikely that I could sell them or use them to make money. My reprinting of old news stories on my web page hasn't led to a dimes worth of profit for me.