

Manchester built two landmark downtown hotels, the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel and the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina. The purchase price was reportedly in excess of $110 million. In November 2011, Platinum Equity sold the newspaper to MLIM Holdings, a company led by Doug Manchester, a San Diego real estate developer and "an outspoken supporter of conservative causes". The U-T nameplate was created by Jim Parkinson, a type designer who also created nameplates for The Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Newsweek.

Changes included being printed on thinner, 100 percent recycled paper, moving the comics to the back of the business section, and abbreviating the title The San Diego Union-Tribune on the front page to U-T San Diego.

On August 17, 2010, the Union-Tribune changed its design to improve "clarity, legibility, and ease of use". The merged newspaper was sold to the private investment group Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills, California, on March 18, 2009. Copley Press īoth the Union and the Tribune were acquired by Copley Press in 1928 and were merged on February 2, 1992. In addition, the San Diego Union purchased the San Diego Daily Bee in 1888, and for a brief time the combined newspaper was named the San Diego Union and Daily Bee. San Diego Evening Tribune, founded December 2, 1895.San Diego Union, founded October 10, 1868.San Diego Sun, founded 1861 and merged with the Evening Tribune in 1939.San Diego Herald, founded 1851 and closed ApJohn Judson Ames was its first editor and proprietor.The predecessor newspapers of the Union-Tribune were: The San Diego Union-Tribune Building, 2018 Predecessors In February 2018 it was announced to be sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital LLC for $500 million plus $90 million in pension liabilities. In 2015, it was acquired by Tribune Publishing. The name changed to U-T San Diego in 2012 but was changed again to The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The San Diego Union-Tribune is an American metropolitan daily newspaper, published in San Diego, California. 1868 (153 years ago) ( 1868) as The San Diego Union
