- [Home](https://truthsignal.com/) - [Business](https://truthsignal.com/business) - Minnesota Star Tribune # startribune.com Markdown: [Snapshot](https://truthsignal.com/business/startribune.com/snapshot.md) [Full report](https://truthsignal.com/business/startribune.com/report.md) ## Website startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune - News, Sports, Culture & Opinion Minnesota news with statewide coverage from Minneapolis–St. Paul, Duluth, St. Cloud, and Rochester, with stories that matter. Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:46 Unclaimed Own this business? Claim it now and get instant access to analytics, insights and further ways to improve your truth score. ## 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 found No address found using the trading company name Email address: liz.flores@startribune.com Phone number: [+1 612-875-9423](tel:+1%20612-875-9423) Contact page: [startribune.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061065451-Contact-Star-Tribune](https://startribune.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061065451-Contact-Star-Tribune) Website: [startribune.com](https://startribune.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral) Social media: Not found ## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints Site Reviews Rating [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/startribune.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 1 reviews · 4.0 out of 5 stars [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-minnesota-star-tribune/id476107280) · Read 12 November 2026 · 13,193 ratings · 4.4 out of 5 stars Total 13,194 4.4 out of 5 stars [Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/mn/minneapolis/profile/newspaper/the-minnesota-star-tribune-0704-775) Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · From 1 review on 1 independent review site App experience Mostly 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](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/startribune.com), 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 Sources [Its homepage](https://www.startribune.com/) ### 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](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit). ### Who they are Company details Based 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 Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minnesota_Star_Tribune) Domain registration Its 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 Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=startribune.com) Website details We 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](tel:+16128759423) Contact page found: Yes Hosting company: Vercel, Inc What its pages say Ways to contact them: [+1 612-875-9423](tel:+16128759423), [liz.flores@startribune.com](mailto:liz.flores@startribune.com) Sources [Homepage](https://startribune.com/) [Contact page](https://startribune.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061065451-Contact-Star-Tribune) [Terms page](https://startribune.com/mn/legal-notices/search) [Privacy page](https://startribune.com/hc/en-us/articles/12986577916557-StarTribune-com-Privacy-Policy) Search engines and AI Blocks 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 protection Googlebot Bing: Blocked by its bot protection Bingbot AI training All blocked OpenAI: Blocked by its bot protection GPTBot Anthropic: Blocked by its bot protection ClaudeBot Google AI: Blocked by its bot protection Google-Extended Apple AI: Blocked by its bot protection Applebot-Extended Common Crawl: Blocked by its bot protection CCBot Meta: Blocked by its bot protection meta-externalagent ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its bot protection Bytespider AI answers All blocked ChatGPT search: Blocked by its bot protection OAI-SearchBot ChatGPT: Blocked by its bot protection ChatGPT-User Claude search: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-SearchBot Claude: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-User Perplexity: Blocked by its bot protection PerplexityBot Sources [robots.txt](https://startribune.com/robots.txt) ### Reputation and track record Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints 13,194 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 4.0 to 4.4 out of 5 Platform · Rating · Reviews [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/startribune.com) · 4.0 out of 5 stars · 1 Total · 4.4 out of 5 stars · 13,194 [Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/mn/minneapolis/profile/newspaper/the-minnesota-star-tribune-0704-775) Business mentions 1 thread on Reddit mentions this business Platform · Thread · What it says Reddit, r/minnesota · [Star Tribune Worth It?](https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/xid718/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 Store Its 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](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 traffic Real 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 - 1 United States 49.3% - 2 Brazil 8.4% - 3 Singapore 7.7% - 4 Germany 5.2% - 5 Argentina 2.6% - 6 United Kingdom 2.3% - 7 Canada 2.3% - 8 Hong Kong 1.7% - 9 Vietnam 1.2% - 10 France 1.2% Top 10 of 55 countries. Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/startribune.com) Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 29 years ago Website archive history: 29 years Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19961230/startribune.com) Social presence We 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 says We 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.” Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.startribune.com/hc/en-us/articles/12986577916557-StarTribune-com-Privacy-Policy) Tracking tools on its homepage Google 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. Source [Its homepage](https://startribune.com/) ### Safety Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This 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 Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory) Data breach history One 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 Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) [StarTribune on Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/StarTribune) Domain and email security Its 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 Email 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 Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=startribune.com&rr_type=TXT) ### 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 record Not 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 Source startribune.com's DNS records Run startribune.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/startribune.com) Email at its own domain Not 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 Source Truth Signal's own records Run startribune.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/startribune.com) Lets our checker read it Not 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 Source startribune.com/robots.txt Run startribune.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/startribune.com) Points added to its truth score 0 of 5 Is this your business? Get the code to show this score on your website Truth Signal truth score for startribune.com The badge always shows your latest score and links to your full report. Something wrong on this report? [Dispute this page](https://truthsignal.com/contact?dispute=startribune.com). Tell us which row or warning is wrong and why. 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The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures: (7 × 3.5 + 4 × 1 (SmartCustomer) + 4.4 × 13,193 (App Store)) ÷ (7 + 13,194) = 4.4, to one decimal place ## Cite Truth Signal, Minnesota Star Tribune: truth score 92 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/startribune.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/startribune.com.json