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The St. Paul ''Pioneer Press'' is a newspaper based in St. Paul, Minnesota, primarily serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Circulation is heaviest in the eastern metro region, including Ramsey, Dakota, and Washington counties, along with western Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Anoka County, Minnesota. The paper's main rival is the ''Star Tribune'', based in neighboring Minneapolis. The ''Pioneer Press'' has been owned by MediaNews Group since April 2006. ==History== The ''Pioneer Press'' traces its history to both the ''Minnesota Pioneer'', Minnesota's first daily newspaper (founded in 1849 by James M. Goodhue), and the ''Saint Paul Dispatch'' (launched in 1868). Ridder Publications acquired the ''Pioneer'' and the ''Dispatch'' in 1927. Ridder merged with Knight Publications to form Knight Ridder in 1974. The two papers were operated for many years as separate morning and evening papers, but in 1985 were merged into the all-day publication the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch'', which made the transition to a morning-only paper in 1990, when the words "and Dispatch" were dropped. The paper is sometimes called the "Pi Press", just as "Strib" is used for the ''Star Tribune''. From 1947 to 1949, the newspaper printed the comic strip ''Li'l Folks'', by St. Paul native Charles M. Schulz. This comic introduced a number of characters who would later return in 1950 in the syndicated comic strip ''Peanuts'', including Charlie Brown and a dog strongly resembling Snoopy. In 1952, the ''Dispatch'' began sponsoring a treasure hunt as part of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. Clues to finding a medallion are printed in the paper, and the first person to find and return it with the clues and a registered carnival button wins a sum of money. The prize started off at $1,000 and as of 2004 rose to $10,000. The paper has won three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1986, 1988, and 2000. On March 10, 1999, the day before the University of Minnesota men's basketball team was to begin play in the NCAA Tournament, the ''Pioneer Press'' published a story written by George Dohrmann with allegations that a staffer wrote coursework for many Minnesota basketball players within the past five years. Immediately, Minnesota suspended four players suspected of academic fraud, and in 2000, the NCAA vacated all postseason appearances by Minnesota from 1994 to 1998 and docked scholarships for four years, among other penalties. Dohrmann would win a Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 2000 for his reports on the scandal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2000-Beat-Reporting )〕 Dohrmann and his editor prepared for hostile reactions to the newspaper from the local community. Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura accused the ''Pioneer Press'' of timing the article to be published around NCAA Tournament time for the sake of "sensationalism journalism," and the ''Pioneer Press'' got many hostile calls and letters in response to the story. The McClatchy Company acquired the paper in June 2006 when it bought Knight Ridder. As owner of the ''Star Tribune,'' McClatchy had to sell the ''Pioneer Press'' because of antitrust concerns.〔() 〕 The ''Pioneer Press'' was subsequently sold by McClatchy to MediaNews Group later in the year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Paul Pioneer Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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