Minnesota Star Tribune to Close Minneapolis Printing Plant, Shift Publishing to Des Moines

Minnesota Star Tribune moves printing operation to Iowa

The media company will print its last paper from its current Minneapolis facility on December 27.

Minnesota Star Tribune to close its Minneapolis printing facility

The Minnesota Star Tribune announced it will close its Minneapolis printing plant by the end of this year, laying off 125 workers. “The cost-saving measure follows decades of declining print readership, leaving the Heritage plant on N. 1st Street operating at just 18% of full capacity,” the Star Tribune reported. But print’s not entirely dead; a Gannett-owned facility in Des Moines, Iowa, will still print the paper seven days a week starting at …

Star Tribune to sell Minneapolis printing plant, lay off 125 workers

The Minnesota Star Tribune is closing its Minneapolis printing facility at the end of the year and shifting print production to Iowa, ending a 158-year-old run of locally printed newspapers.

Minnesota Star Tribune closing print facility, will continue printing daily

The state’s largest media company will continue printing 7 days a week, but will outsource printing to Iowa.

Minnesota Star Tribune to close Minneapolis printing facility

The Minnesota Star Tribune announced Monday that it will close its printing facility in Minneapolis later this year and outsource that work to a facility in Iowa. About 125 workers will lose their jobs.

Minnesota Star Tribune to close Minneapolis printing plant, shift publishing to Des Moines