startribune.com

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startribune.com

Minnesota Star Tribune - News, Sports, Culture & OpinionMinnesota news with statewide coverage from Minneapolis–St. Paul, Duluth, St. Cloud, and Rochester, with stories that matter.

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:46Unclaimed

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Truth score

Truth score 92 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

92/ 100

High truth signals

Top 5% of businesses we’ve checked

Business details

Category: News and magazines
Founded: 1867
Sells: Subscription or membership
Sells to: The public
Kind of seller: Information or media
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 32 years
Address: Not foundNo address found using the trading company name
Email address: liz.flores@startribune.com
Phone number: +1 612-875-9423
Contact page: startribune.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061065451-Contact-Star-Tribune
Website: startribune.com
Social media: Not found

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating

SmartCustomer· Read 12 November 2026· 1 reviews· 4.0 out of 5 stars

App Store· Read 12 November 2026· 13,193 ratings· 4.4 out of 5 stars

Total13,1944.4 out of 5 stars

Better Business Bureau

Customer satisfactionInsufficient evidence· From 1 review on 1 independent review site

App experienceMostly satisfied· High confidence· From 13,193 ratings on the App Store

Summary

Is startribune.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 92 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 not found, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: mostly satisfied, high confidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

We read 3 of its pages: contact, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 32 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. Customers have left 1 reviews on SmartCustomer, averaging 4.0 stars out of 5. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles or an address.

Positives

We read 3 of its pages · contact, terms and privacy.
Its website address was registered 32 years ago.
A not fully established independent reputation · 1 reviews on SmartCustomer, rated 4.0 stars out of 5.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.
Address information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

Minnesota news with statewide coverage from Minneapolis–St. Paul, Duluth, St. Cloud, and Rochester, with stories that matter.

— Minnesota Star Tribune, in their own words

SourcesIts homepage

How to check if startribune.com is legit

To check if startribune.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about startribune.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsBased in the US; serves New Zealand and the US; founded in 1867 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: US
Why we believe that: its phone number starts +1, its Better Business Bureau profile is a US listing
Which countries the company serves: New Zealand, US
Why we believe that: NZD prices on its homepage, $ prices on its homepage

From Wikipedia

Founded: 1867

SourcesWikipedia

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 32 years ago

Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 32 years
Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 3 of its pages: contact, terms and privacy

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +1 612-875-9423
Contact page found: Yes
Hosting company: Vercel, Inc

What its pages say

Ways to contact them: +1 612-875-9423, [email protected]

SourcesHomepage Contact page Terms page Privacy page

Search engines and AIBlocks automated visitors: its bot protection turned us away

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All blocked

Google Search: Blocked by its bot protectionGooglebot
Bing: Blocked by its bot protectionBingbot

AI training

All blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its bot protectionGPTBot
Anthropic: Blocked by its bot protectionClaudeBot
Google AI: Blocked by its bot protectionGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Blocked by its bot protectionApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Blocked by its bot protectionCCBot
Meta: Blocked by its bot protectionmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its bot protectionBytespider

AI answers

All blocked

ChatGPT search: Blocked by its bot protectionOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Blocked by its bot protectionChatGPT-User
Claude search: Blocked by its bot protectionClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Blocked by its bot protectionClaude-User
Perplexity: Blocked by its bot protectionPerplexityBot

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints13,194 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 4.0 to 4.4 out of 5

Platform	Rating	Reviews
SmartCustomer	4.0 out of 5 stars	1
Total	4.4 out of 5 stars	13,194

Better Business Bureau

Business mentions1 thread on Reddit mentions this business

Platform	Thread	What it says
Reddit, r/minnesota	Star Tribune Worth It?	“69 votes, 98 comments. Is the Star Tribune worth the subscription? I see them posting a lot of news. Are they a good local news source? Are they Left…”

App StoreIts app, The Minnesota Star Tribune, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.4 out of 5 from 13,193 ratings, counted in the reviews total.

App: The Minnesota Star Tribune
App Store page: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-minnesota-star-tribune/id476107280
App Store rating: 4.4 out of 5
App Store ratings: 13,193

Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
It is among the 20,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 50,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24
Traffic pattern: sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months: none
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 20,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up startribune.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1United States49.3%
2Brazil8.4%
3Singapore7.7%
4Germany5.2%
5Argentina2.6%
6United Kingdom2.3%
7Canada2.3%
8Hong Kong1.7%
9Vietnam1.2%
10France1.2%

Top 10 of 55 countries.

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 29 years ago

Website archive history: 29 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

Shares your data with other companies.: “Business Partners: From time to time, we may share Your Information with third parties (other than our service providers) for their own marketing purposes.”

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager and Google Ads

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Google Ads: Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.

Uses Osano to ask which cookies you allow.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyOne known data breach involving the company: StarTribune, the latest 7 years ago

Known data breaches found: 1

StarTribune

In October 2019, the Minnesota-based news service StarTribune suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on the dark web. The breach exposed over 2 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, physical addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Accounts affected: 2,192,857
Date: 10 Oct 2019
Data exposed: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Passwords, Physical addresses, Usernames

SourcesHave I Been Pwned StarTribune on Have I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked

Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DKIM key: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: none

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt
Certificate type: DV
Certificate expires: 29 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns-1064.awsdns-05.org
ns-1554.awsdns-02.co.uk
ns-238.awsdns-29.com
ns-807.awsdns-36.net
Address: 76.76.21.21

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourcestartribune.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourcestartribune.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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