WINONA, Minn. – In a further constriction the financially struggling Winona Daily News is leaving its downtown storefront and relocating to an upstairs office in the Extreme East End industrial area. The office will be unstaffed, but staff members can unlock it for interviews and meetings. The corporate owner, Lee Enterprises of Iowa, is channeling telephone callers and emails to its newsroom at the LaCrosse Tribune, which the chain also owns. Although out of the way, Lee noted the new office, in the former Winona Knitting Mills factory at 902 East Second Street, has fashionable neighbors: The Winona Area Chamber of Commerce, Edward Jones Financial and Northwestern Mutual. Most recently the Daily News has been downtown on higher-rent Third Street. Before 2018 it was also at Winona Knits but in spacious ground-level suites with a patio on the Levee.
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In heyday in 1970s
Really a daily anymore? The paper has a 24-hour presence online, but print editions were reduced to Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in 2023. No further home delivery. Subscribers, now fewer than than 1,900, get the paper by mail. At its peak the paper claimed 18,000 subscribers on Sundays and 15,000 weekdays.