The old News Tribune building at State Street is being demolished. An inquiry as to the current address of Trib offices shows the location of the UPS Store on South 38th Street in Tacoma, near the Tacoma Mall. A Tribune employee answering the Subscription phone line, states that the employees all work from home.
Your cost of the daily: $2.50 at the newsstand or various discount offers for access to the online version of the publication.
How low the Tacoma News Tribune has sunk! The once great daily paper is dying an agonizing death in this age of Internet-driven instant news reporting.
Tacoma’s News Tribune Employees Working From Home
The end is near for print media.
I just retired this month from a 45-year career at newspapers throughout Washington and Oregon, and if anyone knows the challenges the newspaper industry has faced in recent years, it is me. But to have the News-Tribune literally and truly HOMELESS as a business??! That’s crazy! I wonder if any other papers in the McClatchy chain nationally are undergoing the same treatment?
I remember when the Trib jumped to 10 cents. I was just a kid, but I knew the value of a dime.