Mail Tribune
The Mail Tribune is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Medford, Oregon, United States that serves Jackson County, Oregon, and adjacent areas of Josephine County, Oregon and northern California. Its coverage area centers on Medford and Ashland and includes many small communities in Jackson County. The newspaper also covers Central Point, Talent, Eagle Point, Grants Pass and Phoenix, as well as Jacksonville and other cities in the Rogue Valley. History. George Putnam bought the "Medford Tribune" and two smaller weekly newspapers on April 2, 1907. In 1910, he purchased the "Medford Mail" and combined it with the  Tribune to create the "MailTribune". He later sold the paper in order to purchase the Salem "Capital Journal". The "Mail Tribune" was awarded the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Service, for its coverage of corrupt Jackson County politicians. The predecessor of Local Media Group purchased the Medford paper in 1973, and also owned the nearby "Ashland Daily Tidings". On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group  owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former "Wall Street Journal" editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. The "Mail Tribune" and "Ashland Daily Tidings" were sold to Rosebud Media in 2017. Special sections. The "Mail Tribune"<nowiki>'s</nowiki> has four special feature sections that run regularly each week. Sunday's edition contains a Your Life section, with general lifestyle content. Wednesday contains the A La  Carte section, which features food articles. Friday is the Oregon Outdoors section, containing local and regional outdoors stories. Friday's edition also contains Tempo, a tabloid insert about local arts and entertainment. Newsroom. The "Mail Tribune's" North Fir Street newsroom consists of reporters, assigning editors and multimedia staff, copy editing and page design, as well as a separate sports department.