Joseph Russell Knowland was an American politician and newspaper publisher. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California and was owner, editor and publisher of the Oakland Tribune. He was the father of United States Senator William F. Knowland.
Joseph R. Knowland
Joseph Knowland's second wife Emelyn in 1912
The Oakland Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California, and a predecessor of the East Bay Times. It was published by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group. Founded in 1874, the Tribune rose to become an influential daily newspaper. With the decline of print media, in 2016, the paper announced that the Tribune would fold into a new newspaper entitled, the East Bay Times along with its owners other newspapers in the East Bay starting April 5, 2016. The former nameplates of the consolidated newspapers will continue to be published every Friday as weekly community supplements.
The July 27, 2005 front page of The Oakland Tribune
The Tribune Tower was the headquarters of the Oakland Tribune from 1924 until 2007.
"Near Collision at Air Show", the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by Tribune photographer Bill Crouch
