Salt Lake Tribune

The Mormon Tribune was founded in 1870 by a group of businessmen led by former LDS Church members William Godbe, Elias L.T. Harrison and John Tullidge. After a year its name was changed to the Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette, and was shortly thereafter shortened to The Salt Lake Tribune. The Tribune became known as an anti-Mormon paper that was highly critical of President Brigham Young.

In 1901 U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, along with his business partner David Keith bought the Tribune, and began eliminating the anti-Mormon overtones of the paper. Upon Keith's death in 1918 the Kearns family bought out his share of the Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company.

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