The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune is a daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Utah, this has the largest readership in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune is distributed by Newspaper Agency Corporation, which also distributes the Deseret Morning News. The Tribune - or " Trib ," as it is known locally - is currently owned by the Denver-based MediaNews Group. For up to 100 years, the newspaper was owned by the heirs of U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns. After the death of Thomas Kearns ' 1918 the company by his widow, Jennie Judge Kearns and his son Thomas F. Kearns was conducted. For a long time was the editor of the newspaper John F. Fitzpatrick, who had begun his career as secretary of Senator Kearns.
History
As the successor of Utah Magazine, the sheet was used as the Mormon Tribune founded in 1871 by a group of businessmen, led by former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Amasa and William Lyam Godbe. This certain economic and political positions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints do not. After a year of title by Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette was replaced. Not long after, the name was shortened to simply The Salt Lake Tribune. For some time, the publisher also issued an evening edition, which was known as The Salt Lake Telegram.
After the newspaper by three men from Kansas was purchased in 1873, the paper was known as anti - Mormon speaking tube, which consistently supported the Liberal Party of Utah.
1901 bought the newly elected Roman Catholic Senator Thomas Kearns and his business partner David Keith The Tribune. Kearns took steps to stop the anti - Mormon overtones of the newspaper. Since he had good relations with parliamentarians, mostly members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, and because he tied the anti - Mormon overtones of his newspaper, he was elected Senator. After the death of Kearns in 1918 his family Keith took over part of the leaf.
Kearns Secretary John F. Fitzpatrick Publisher 1924. 1952 closed the Tribune with the Deseret News, a Joint Operating Agreement to create the Newspaper Agency Corporation. In 1960, Fitzpatrick handed over the reins to John W. Gallivan, publisher until 1984 and Chairman of the Board and 1997.
The Kearns family owned the majority of shares of the newspaper until 1997, they sold this year at the Tele-Communications Inc, a multimedia company that was later acquired by AT & T. The Tribune was then sold to the Denver ( Colorado) -based MediaNews Group, which is partially owned by the publisher William Dean Singleton.
In 2002, the Tribune was involved in a discussion after employees leaked insider information sold - similar to the Elizabeth Smart case, when The National Enquirer. The editor of the Tribune James " Jay" Shelledy resigned from his job at the newspaper when he realized the consequences of the scandal. Two employees were also relieved of their positions as a Tribune reporter.
2004 decided the newspaper, from its historic location in downtown Salt Lake City, the Tribune Building, move out and settle in the Gateway Mall. Many people, some Tribune employees included, spoke out against the move because it would hurt by their opinion of the economy of downtown Salt Lake City. The move was completed in May 2005 and the editor Nancy Conway said the staff of the Tribune. " It's just a building '