Star Tribune
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📅 since 1982
The Minnesota Star Tribune, formerly the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of 2026, it is Minnesota's largest newspaper and the seventh-largest in the United States by print circulation, and is distributed throughout the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the state, and the Upper Midwest. — Wikipedia
⚖️ Lean Left (AllSides) · 📚 not on Wikipedia's list
🍞plain
🍞plain news
😈gloomier than others
✏️12.6 rewrites per 100
📡1% wire copy
📰 684 headlines in 30 days · 10 on its front page now
🧬 Its fingerprint
🏷️ Outside the partisan webs
Everyone outside the two partisan webs, from the wires to cable news: a big, mixed group that runs more of the stories everyone runs. Not a mark of quality or lean; its look-alikes say more.
📡 Wire: 57th percentile. Its stories and headline words are closer to the AP's and Reuters' than 57% of the 75 outlets we fingerprint.
🌶️ Heat: 26th percentile. Its headlines are worded more heatedly (loaded words, combat verbs, anger) than 26% of them.
👯 Behaves most like BBC, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.
From what it did on its front page in the last 28 days (31 of our stories, 540 headlines), not from its ratings.
The feelings in its headlines
On its front page now
- Minnesota Republicans are outspending Democrats in runup to midterm elections
- Anthony Edwards out at least eight weeks: What's next for Wolves without him?
- Minnesota loses another birth center, this time in Luverne
- Conservative influencers face identity theft charges over Minnesota primary
- Trump administration attempting to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey again 📰 Justice Department charges former FBI Director James Comey for third time
- The family crisis that forged Amy Klobuchar's political awakening
- Thousands of observers are expected to descend on polling places to monitor the vote on Election Day
- The experience that shaped Lisa Demuth's view of government -- and its limits
- Minnesota's hottest art event: Firing St. John's massive pottery kiln
- Opinion | The case for Cedrick Frazier
Headlines it rewrote
Wild win slugfest against Utah Mammoth
Wild outlast Utah Mammoth in fight-filled win, but lose Jared Spurgeon to injury
Exit polls suggest a rebuke of Netanyahu but no clear winner in Israel's election
Voters rebuke Netanyahu but exit polls suggest no clear winner in Israel's election
Hermantown postpones data center vote after protest disrupts meeting
Hermantown postpones critical data center vote for second night
Show stopper: Minnesota Opera postpones premiere, locks out orchestra
Show stopper: Minnesota Opera postpones premiere amid orchestra dispute
No clear winner in Israeli election, exit polls suggest, as Netanyahu's fate hangs in the balance
Exit polls suggest a rebuke of Netanyahu but no clear winner in Israel's election
Trump inserts himself in Senate race with unfounded fraud warning
Trump inserts himself in Minnesota’s Senate race with unfounded fraud warning
Opinion | Annoyed by toxic political ads during sports games? Join the club.
Opinion | Annoyed by toxic political ads on game day? Join the club.
Permits to destroy wild rice are on the rise in Minnesota
Hermantown postpones data center vote after protest eclipses meeting
Hermantown postpones data center vote after protest disrupts meeting
Incendiary left-wing streamer Hasan Piker joins Ilhan Omar in Minneapolis
Anthony Edwards’ heroics not enough as Wolves fall to Cavs in OT
Anthony Edwards’ heroics are not enough as Wolves fall to Cavs in OT
St. Peter’s answer to its housing shortage is being closely watched
St. Peter’s push to fix housing shortage is an important test for rural Minnesota