Portland Tribune

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Portland Tribune
Image:Port trib.JPG 250px A Portland Tribune news stand
Type	Semi-weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Pamplin Media Group
Publisher	Robert Pamplin, Jr.
Editor	Dwight Jaynes
Founded	2001 (as The Portland Tribune)
Headquarters	6605 S.E. Lake Road Portland, OR 97222-2161 Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Circulation	120,000

Website: portlandtribune.com

The Portland Tribune is a free newspaper published twice weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays) in Portland, Oregon with a distribution of about a 120,000 papers. Portland businessman Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. announced his intention to found the paper in the summer of 2000. The first issue was published February 9, 2001, joining the Oregonian, the city's only daily newspaper, and the alternative weeklies Willamette Week and The Portland Mercury.

The Tribune has the widest circulation newspaper of the Pamplin Media Group of community newspapers in the Portland metropolitan area. Pamplin Media Group also owns and operates the talk show format radio station KPAM, and several other radio stations throughout the Pacific Northwest. The combined resources of the Pamplin Media Group make it the second largest news gathering organization in Oregon.^{[citation needed]}

The paper deals almost exclusively with issues local to Portland and the state of Oregon. It features regular columns by Phil Stanford and Dwight Jaynes. The paper is also known for its extensive coverage of local high school, college and pro sports teams with concentration on the NBA, Pac-10, Big Sky Conference and West Coast Conference.

The Tribune sponsors the Portland area annual regional spelling bee for middle schoolers. The champion participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.^[1]