The Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen are Tucson’s two daily newspapers. The Star is Tucson’s morning paper, available Monday – Sunday, and the Citizen is Tucson’s afternoon paper, available Monday – Saturday.
History of the Star
Since the publication of the first Daily Bulletin in 1877 and through its later revival as the Arizona Tri-Weekly Star, the Weekly Star and finally the Arizona Daily Star, the Star has diligently served the community’s daily news needs. After 34 years of ownership by the Pulitzer Publishing Co., the Star became a Lee Enterprises paper with Lee’s acquisition of Pulitzer in 2005.
History of the Citizen
The Tucson Citizen was born in 1870 and is Tucson’s oldest continuously published newspaper. The Citizen began as a weekly, was converted to a daily in 1879 and, except for a brief move to Florence soon after it was founded, has been a part of Tucson life from frontier days to space age and beyond. The Citizen is currently owned by Gannett Co. Inc., the nation’s largest newspaper group. Gannett publishes 85 daily newspapers in the United States, including USA TODAY.
The relationship between the Star, Citizen and Tucson Newspapers
In 1940, the joint operating agreement (JOA) was born when Citizen owner William A. Small and Arizona Daily Star owner William R. Mathews agreed to create Tucson Newspapers Inc., a common agency to handle production, advertising and distribution for both publications. Today, Tucson Newspapers also oversees three major local websites – azstarnet.com, online home of the Star; tucsoncitizen.com, online home of the Citizen; and tucson.com – as well as a variety of niche products. It is a partnership equally owned by Gannett and Lee. Each newsroom sets its own editorial policy as well as newsgathering and newsroom practices.
News factoid: Tucson Newspapers making history
In 1965, the owner of the Citizen exercised a clause in the JOA agreement to buy the Star. That purchase was challenged by the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division. Moreover, that challenge and a related investigation led the Department to file a lawsuit claiming that the Tucson JOA itself (and by implication all other JOAs across the country) violated federal antitrust laws. A trial was held and both the JOA and the acquisition were blocked, a decision that the United States Supreme Court upheld several years later.
The issue was argued for five years; newspaper publishers and owners sought relief in Congress, claiming that an adverse decision in Tucson would cause their communities to lose an editorial voice. A final decision came in 1970: Congress passed the Newspaper Preservation Act, which exempted newspapers from antitrust violations if the joint agreement was made to save one or both papers. This effectively overturned the Supreme Court decision, reinstating the Tucson JOA. One small step for Tucson, one giant step for newspapers nationwide.
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www.tucsoncitizen.com
www.tucson.com
Tucson, Arizona. It’s the Old Pueblo, and it’s a thriving metropolis with a population over one million. It’s a city with a rich history of Native American heritage, and it’s a forward-thinking focal point in the worlds of optics and astronomy. It’s a thriving college town, and it’s a renowned active-adult retirement hot spot. It’s a region of sunny days and dark, starry nights.
The state’s second-largest city is home to the prestigious PAC-10 University of Arizona, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, two world-class spas, more than 850 holes of golfing paradise, and people who come from all regions of the world to live in the Old Pueblo. Tucson is often described as “the big city with the small town feel,” because it enjoys big-city sophistication – employment, economic, business and cultural diversity – without a big-city’s hectic pace and high cost of living.
Add to that the fact that Tucson is surrounded by picture-perfect mountains on all sides and experiences 350 days of sunshine a year, and you can see why there’s simply no place like it.
Together, we will be the premier publishers of high quality and innovative daily newspapers, websites and specialty products that deliver essential information to a growing and diverse audience. We will provide outstanding value for our customers, a rewarding work experience for our employees, and community-building leadership in southern Arizona.
Tucson Newspapers’ non-daily products and Web sites are everything we do in addition to our daily newspapers. One size doesn’t have to fit all for the products and events you want to introduce into your life, which is why we’re always developing new products to grab the attention of the Tucson community.
Take Southwest Style. This first-in-the-market product is a glossy, broadsheet (i.e. newspaper-sized) publication and Web site targeting Tucson’s high-end shopping demographic, connecting high-end retailers directly with the consumers who want to buy their products.
Or check out our suite of Web sites, Tucson’s #1 online destination: azstarnet.com, online home of the Star; tucsoncitizen.com, online home of the Citizen; and tucson.com, online portal to Tucson Newspapers’ many products and resources. These sites receive 13 million page views from 1.6 million visitors each month. Aside from local, national and world news updates, azstarnet.com and tucsoncitizen.com provide an interactive forum where readers can get more from their newspapers – videos, blogs, photo slideshows and more.
We are not just newspapers any more
When you come to work for Tucson Newspapers, you’ll realize that there are benefits, and then there are benefits. We offer our employees comprehensive medical, dental, vision and hearing coverage, a 401(k) plan with a company match, tuition reimbursement, paid holidays and vacation time, and more.
But we also have corporate perks with participating businesses, an on-site workout facility, company-sponsored sporting events and on-site celebrations as well as a location that puts us within a three-mile radius of some of Tucson’s best Mexican food. And you can enjoy the peace of mind that comes from working for a company that’s been in business in Tucson for over 100 years – with only good things on the horizon.
TOP TUCSON NEWSPAPERS BENEFITS
• Medical, dental, vision and hearing coverage
• 401(k) plan with company matching benefit
• Corporate perks with participating businesses
• 8 company-paid holidays each year
• Paid vacation time
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee mortgage program
• Gannett and Lee stock purchase plan
• Income protection (short/long-term disability)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life, Accident and Family Insurance
• Company Paid Pension
• Direct Deposit
• Adoption Assistance
• Discounted Subscriptions and Classified Ads
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ADVERTISING
Tucson Newspapers’ Advertising departments – Retail and Classified – are the company’s moneymakers. They are the contacts for businesses interested in bringing their products to the Tucson community, and they are the contacts for Tucson residents interested in independently selling their goods and services to others.
ONLINE
When you think of Tucson Newspapers, online might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But our Online department is one of the driving forces behind Tucson Newspapers’ firm delivery into the digital era.
CIRCULATION
Tucson Newspapers’ Circulation department is all about where the tires hit the road – literally and figuratively. When a customer is interested in getting her hands on a copy of a daily Star or Citizen, Circulation makes it happen – whether news carriers are out at the crack of dawn delivering papers across Southern Arizona to thousands of homes, or whether they’re making the rounds of single-copy paper racks so anyone can pick up a paper when he’s filling his tank, or picking up coffee, or stopping at the pharmacy. If you want a Tucson Newspapers product, Circulation helps get it to you.
PRODUCTION
Every Tucson Newspapers product starts as a twinkle in someone’s eye – and most end as a printed product you can hold in your hand. How do the pages of the daily paper get from here to there? It’s a dance coordinated by Tucson Newspapers’ production team, and there’s never just one project in the works.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information is at the core of every product Tucson Newspapers creates, every news story that makes it from pen to printed page, every email every one of our employees sends every day. When you’re dealing in that much information, it’s of peak importance that someone is keeping a watchful eye over everything.
MARKETING
The Market Development department of Tucson Newspapers is responsible for bringing compelling ideas to the community. They focus on creating bridges between products, advertisers and consumers by distilling facts, figures and messages into the meat of what YOU need to know about a product. Think of it as “getting to the point”: when you want to know exactly why and how a Tucson Newspapers product is relevant to your life or business, Market Development steps up to the plate.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Human Resources. It’s exactly what it sounds like – but no department deals in a finer science than that of pairing humans around the state, country and world with their perfect employment opportunity within the Tucson Newspapers family.
They are responsible for melding the needs of Tucson Newspapers with the needs of its employees. And they are on a perpetual mission to infuse every department in the building with talented, driven and productive individuals who can push our company to its maximum capacity for innovation – and then take it one step further.
FINANCE
Tucson Newspapers’ Finance department holds the company’s purse strings, working with every department to budget revenues and expenses on a month-by-month, quarter-by-quarter and year-by-year basis. In going over the company’s expenditures and earnings with a fine-toothed comb, the Finance department’s noble mission is to keep Tucson Newspapers in the black.
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