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Minnesota Star Tribune to Be Printed in Iowa
Monday at noon, Star Tribune employees received a memo from CEO/acclaimed author Steve Grove about the future (or lack thereof) of the newspaper’s Minneapolis printing facility.
“Our journey to transform the Minnesota Star Tribune into a modern digital media company has had many chapters already, and today we’re entering a new one: we are no longer going to be operating our own printing facility,” Grove writes, adding that the plant produces at just 18% capacity. “In the coming months, we’ll begin the transition to have our newspaper printed by the Gannett printing facility in Des Moines, Iowa.”
The Strib has been printed locally for 158 years, the past 38 of ’em at the current Heritage building. (Quick aside: I’ve previously worked at the now-demolished Strib HQ on Portland Avenue, where the basement held remnants of the facility that once existed there, and also at Heritage, where a goddamn train pulls in with giant reams of Canadian paper.)…