Bossier Press-Tribune
The Bossier Press-Tribune is a newspaper specializing in local news in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana, with some regional, state, and national stories too as they impact the readership. "The Press-Tribune" is published on Tuesday and Fridays afternoons at 4250 Viking Drive in Bossier City, and has a circulation of 12,500 copies. The origin of "The Press-Tribune" can be traced to 1940, when as the weekly "Bossier Tribune", it was in competition with the "Planters Press". In 1945, T. L. Morris sold the "Bossier Tribune" to Larry Freeman, who was also the publisher of  a Jewish newspaper in Shreveport. In the latter 1970s, the "Bossier Tribune" and "The Planters Press" merged to become the "Bossier Press-Tribune". In the 1990s, Robert E. "Bob" Barton, the owner of "The Press-Tribune" at the time who also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1996 to 2000, purchased from Wilton Corley the "Bossier Banner-Progress", a 131-year-old weekly newspaper that serves Benton, the Bossier parish seat. The publisher is David Arthur Specht, Jr. (born 1969) of Specht Newspapers, Inc. "The Press-Tribune" began daily publication in 2008 but since was reduced to three  times per week. The sports editor is Russell Wayne Hedges, son of football coach Lee Hedges of Shreveport. "The Press-Tribune" is a sister publication of the "Minden Press-Herald" in Minden in neighboring Webster Parish, Louisiana.