Owner(s) Swift Communications | ||
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Type Weekly (Pilot)
Daily (Today) Format Broadsheet (Pilot)
Tabloid (Today) Editor Brent Boyer (since August 2007) Founded 1885 (1885) (Pilot)
1927 (Today) Headquarters 1901 Curve Plaza
Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80477
United States | ||
The Steamboat Pilot & Today is an American newspaper serving Routt County, Colorado and owned by Swift Communications. The Steamboat Pilot is a broadsheet published weekly on Sunday, and the Steamboat Today is a free tabloid published weekdays and Saturday.
As of 2011, The Pilot & Today has been named the top newspaper in its circulation class eight times in nine years by the Colorado Press Association.
History
Steamboat Pilot was a weekly newspaper established in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and first printed on July 31, 1885 by James Hoyle. It merged with The Routt County Sentinel in 1927, and later with The Oak-Creek Times-Leader in 1944. Jack Kent Cooke acquired the Pilot in 1988. Steamboat Today was first published as a daily tabloid newspaper on August 21, 1989 as an accompaniment to the Pilot. In 1994, WorldWest acquired the papers from the Cooke estate.
In 2008, ExploreSteamboat.com, the website of affiliated magazine Explore Steamboat was nominated for the EPpy Awards as Best Regional Magazine-Affiliated Web Site.
As of 2011, the staff of The Pilot & Today has a "strong contingent" of graduates from CU-Boulder's journalism school, outnumbered only by that of The Denver Post and Boulder Daily Camera.
In June 2016, the newspaper was acquired by Swift Communications.