Type Daily newspaper Owner(s) Lee Enterprises | Format Broadsheet Founded 1879 | |
Headquarters 4850 South Park Avenue
Tucson, Arizona 85714, United States Circulation 96,682 weekdays
116,010 Saturdays
154,715 Sundays in 2012 | ||
The Arizona Daily Star is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson and surrounding districts of southern Arizona in the United States. The paper was purchased by Pulitzer in 1971; Lee Enterprises bought Pulitzer in 2005. At present, the paper's business operations are owned jointly by Lee Enterprises and the Gannett Company.
In 1981, Star reporters Clark Hallas and Robert B. Lowe won a Pulitzer Prize for their stories about recruiting violations by University of Arizona football coach Tony Mason.
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