Salt Lake Tribune

The Salt Lake Tribune

The July 27, 2005 front page of The Salt Lake Tribune
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Paul Huntsman
Editor	Jennifer Napier-Pierce
Founded	1870 (as the Mormon Tribune)
Headquarters	90 South 400 West Suite 700 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101  United States
Circulation	74,043 84,137 Sunday (2015 paid distribution)
ISSN	0746-3502
Website	sltrib.com

The Salt Lake Tribune is a daily newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah, with the largest weekday circulation but second largest Sunday circulation behind the Deseret News. The Tribune, often referred to as just "the Trib," is owned by Paul Huntsman and printed through a joint operating agreement with the Deseret News through the Newspaper Agency Corporation. For almost 100 years it was a family-owned newspaper held by the heirs of U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns. After Kearns died in 1918 the company was controlled by his widow, Jennie Judge Kearns, and son, Thomas F. Kearns. The newspaper's longtime publisher was John F. Fitzpatrick, who started his career as secretary to Senator Kearns in 1913.

On April 20, 2016, Huntsman Family Investments, a private-equity firm headed by Paul Huntsman, announced that they would be buying the Tribune.

The newspaper's motto, at the top of its masthead, is "Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871."

A successor to Utah Magazine (1868), the publication was founded in 1870 as the Mormon Tribune by a group of businessmen led by former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) William Godbe, Elias L.T. Harrison and Edward W. Tullidge, who disagreed with the church's economic and political positions. After a year its name was changed to the Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette, but soon after that, the name was shortened to The Salt Lake Tribune.

In 1873 three Kansas businessmen, Frederic Lockley, George F. Prescott and A.M. Hamilton, purchased the company and turned it into an anti-Mormon newspaper which consistently backed the local Liberal Party. Sometimes vitriolic, the Tribune held particular antipathy for LDS Church president Brigham Young. In the edition announcing Young's death, the Tribune wrote,