covered news on the southeastern border of Phoenix, joined in November 1998. In December 1999, The Tribune was renamed the East Valley Tribune and, in August 2000, Thomson Newspapers sold its Arizona newspaper holdings to Freedom Communications, Inc. of Irvine, California On October 6, 2008, publisher Julie Moreno announced that, as of 2009, the newspaper would cease publishing in Scottsdale and Tempe. Additionally, it would publish only four days a week in the remainder of its circulation area, although it would publish four distinct editions serving Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert and Queen Creek. More than 140 staff members' jobs were eliminated with the move. On April 20, 2009, the Tribune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting after the paper ran a five-part series on how the efforts of Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio against illegal immigrants detracted from quality of law enforcement services provided by his agency. By the time the award was announced, co-author of the series Paul Giblin had been laid off during a round of Tribune cutbacks and co-author Ryan Gabrielson left the following summer. Freedom Communications filed for Chapter 11 reorganization on September 1, 2009, in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware. As a result, on November 2, 2009, the East Valley Tribune announced that it would cease operations on December 31, 2009. However, a new buyer was found, and the Tribune, the Daily News-Sun, the Ahwatukee Foothills News, Glendale/Peoria Today and Surprise Today were sold to 10/13 Communications LLC, an affiliate of Boulder, Colorado-based Thirteenth Street Media. The transaction was approved by the bankruptcy judge in March 2010, as part of Freedom's reorganization process. The Tribune continued operations while the sale was pending. 10/13 Communications already owned a free-distribution weekly called the Explorer, serving Oro Valley and Marana in north suburban Tucson. In November 2010, it was announced that as a result of the sale, the Tribune's main offices, including all editorial and advertising operations, would relocate by early 2011 to office space at Fountainhead Corporate Park in Tempe, adjacent to Interstate 10 and Broadway Road. Circulation was also reinstated in Tempe and Chandler. On October 8, 2011, Terry Horne was named publisher and editor of the East Valley Tribune. In early 2012, the now-former Tribune complex at 120 W. 1st Avenue, which had been vacated by 10/13 Communications, was acquired by a private developer, extensively renovated and leased to the State of Arizona