In 2004, the paper decided to move out of its historic location at the downtown "Tribune" building and relocate to The Gateway. The move was completed in May, 2005.
The afternoon of March 12, 2003, Elizabeth Smart was found alive in Sandy, sparking a 36 hour record traffic spike to the Tribune's web site, sltrib.com, that has yet to be broken. http://www.sltrib.com
The Kearns family owned a majority share of the newspaper until 1997 when they sold it to Tele-Communications Inc., a multimedia corporation, which was later acquired by AT&T. In a controversial play, The Tribune was subsequently sold to Denver, Colorado-based MediaNews Group which is partially owned by publisher William Dean Singleton.
After about a year offering a dial-up, dedicated software-based online product, the Tribune debuted a site on the still-new World Wide Web in late December, 1995. They were one of the first 10 newspapers in the country to do so. http://www.sltrib.com
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For its prompt and efficient coverage of the crash of two air liners over the Grand Canyon, in which 128 persons were killed. This was a team job that surmounted great difficulties in distance, time and terrain.
Upon Kearns' death in 1918 his family bought out the Keith's share of the publication. The Kearns family owned a majority share of the newspaper until 1997.
In 1901 newly-elected Roman Catholic U.S. senator Thomas Kearns and his business partner David Keith, bought the Tribune. Kearns made strides to eliminate the paper's anti-Mormon overtones, and succeeded in maintaining good relationships with the mostly-LDS state legislature which had elected him to the Senate.
After being purchased by three "border ruffians" from Kansas in 1873, the paper became known as an anti-Mormon organ which consistently backed the local Liberal Party. Sometimes vitriolic, the Tribune held particular antipathy for Latter-day Saints President Brigham Young.
The publication was founded in 1871 as the Mormon Tribune by a group of Mormon businessmen who disagreed with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' (LDS Church) economic and political positions. After a year its name was changed to the Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette. Not too long after that, the name was shortened to simply The Salt Lake Tribune.
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