HISTORY OF A NEWSPAPER

Dec. 2, 1895--The Evening Tribune begins publishing a daily edition.

Jan. 21, 1928--Col. Ira C. Copley buys the Union and Evening Tribune from the John D. Spreckels estate.

Nov. 25, 1939--The San Diego Sun merges with the Evening Tribune and the paper becomes the Tribune-Sun.

May 26, 1950--The Tribune-Sun acquires the San Diego Daily Journal and changes its name back to the Evening Tribune.

June 4, 1950--James S. Copley becomes publisher of the San Diego Union and the Evening Tribune.

Sept. 17, 1973--The Evening Tribune begins operating from its new Mission Valley plant at 350 Camino de la Reina.

Oct. 6, 1973--James S. Copley dies, and his wife, Helen Copley, becomes publisher.

1979--The paper’s circulation peaks at 133,711.

April 16, 1979--The Evening Tribune staff receives the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the midair collision of a PSA jetliner and a private aircraft over San Diego the previous September.

July 31, 1981--The word “Evening” is dropped from the Tribune masthead.

March 4, 1985--The zoning of the Tribune and the San Diego Union into six localized editions begins.

April 16, 1987--Writer Jonathan Freedman receives the Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials in the Tribune that supported immigration reform.

Nov. 6, 1989--The Tribune changes its name to the San Diego Tribune.

Sept. 11, 1991--Copley announces that the San Diego Tribune and Union will merge in early 1992 into a single newspaper with morning and afternoon editions.