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Founded 9 March 1872 (weekly), daily from 28 May 1873 — this ground's paper of record for a century and a half, read at its strengths and no further
What it is: Granger has never had a daily; the Tribune has always been the daily it happened in. The build's coverage record runs from the Gumwood rezoning fight of 2005 through the data-center beat of 2024–2026, with the paper's own structure documented as part of the evidence: the five-edition system; the 1997 morning shift and the new Michiana edition (Editor & Publisher, 25 January 1997; circulation 80,675, "Indiana's largest evening paper"); the ZIP-level circulation table (ASNE/Audit Bureau, 2005: 46530 took 5,123 copies on the daily side, 8,419 on Sunday); the ownership course — Schurz to GateHouse, 1 February 2019, GateHouse into Gannett, 19 November 2019; printing moved to Peoria; the Colfax building left after 98 years. Its niche-magazine arm is the paper's other Granger fact: the Flagship Publications Department ran the zoned monthly Inside Granger (surviving digital editions monthly, March 2009 – July 2011) until the division was eliminated in June 2011, its course carried by the federal court record in Hizer.
Its standing, from this build's experience: the Tribune is a source with doors, and the door is part of the citation: items reach this build through the paper's own pages, through the MBRL/ProQuest preservation (the acronym carried exactly as the build's notes carry it), and through republication by the institutions it covered. Election facts print from its 2026 file at the strength a newspaper canvass carries — filings, primary results, the November live report — with the Clerk's certified summary named wherever the paper's account is not the last word. What the record reached does not show is also printed at strength: no Granger bureau and no Granger-branded edition was claimed — zoned editions and a niche magazine are what exists, and the leg leaves it there deliberately.
Where it fails: a daily's dateline is an assignment, not a boundary: the Tribune datelines the Heritage Square shooting GRANGER while the regulatory fight it reports was Mishawaka's, and the build prints the dateline as the paper's usage inside a contest the paper itself documents. The paper is also the settler of last resort for a long tail of small facts (opening years, dedication dates), which is why so many harvest rows name its archive: those facts stand as gaps until the archive is read, not as inferences from its modern coverage.
Sources:
- South Bend Tribune — the 2024–2026 Microsoft sequence, the 2026 election file, and items as preserved via MBRL/ProQuest; Editor & Publisher, 25 January 1997; ASNE/Audit Bureau circulation table, 2005.