The Albuquerque Tribune

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The July 27, 2005 front page of The Albuquerque Tribune
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	The E.W. Scripps Company
Publisher	Albuquerque Publishing Company
Editor	Phill Casaus
Founded	1922
Headquarters	7777 Jefferson NE Albuquerque, NM 87109 United States
ISSN	1097-2048

Website: abqtrib.com

The Albuquerque Tribune is a newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1922 by Carlton Cole Magee as Magee's Independent. It is published in the afternoon and evening Monday through Saturday. Its logo and the logo of the entire Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which deptics a lighthouse, was inspired by Magee's original slogan (adopted from Dante) for the Tribune: "Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way."

The Albuquerque Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Eileen Welsome's series entitled "The Plutonium Experiment."

[edit] Joint operating agreement

On February 20, 1933, the Albuquerque Tribune formed the nation's first joint operating agreement (JOA), entitled the "Albuquerque Plan," with the Albuquerque Journal in response to the Great Depression of 1929. The JOA established the Albuquerque Publishing Company and merged the Albuquerque Evening Journal with the Tribune (which at this point changed its name from the New Mexico State Tribune to the Albuquerque Tribune.)

The Albuquerque Tribune and The Albuquerque Journal merged presses, advertising and circulation while remaining as separate entities. As part of the joint operating agreement, the Tribune is a local newspaper only; therefore, it focuses on issues in the Albuquerque metropolitan area. It still runs national and world news and has a DC correspondent, however. Both papers operate in different parts of the same building, which also houses the presses used to print both newspapers. The joint operating agreement is still in effect today.