The Lewiston Morning Tribune is an independently owned newspaper in the northwestern United States, located in Lewiston, Idaho.[6] Founded in 1892, it serves counties in north-central Idaho and southeastern Washington, the southern portion of the Inland Empire.[7]
Type | Daily newspaper[1] |
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Founder(s) | Eugene L. Alford Albert H. Alford |
Publisher | Nathan Alford |
President | A. L. (Butch) Alford Jr., president, TPC Holdings |
Editor | Nathan Alford |
Managing editor | Craig Clohessy |
General manager | Fred Board, chief operating officer |
Managing editor, design | Julie Breslin |
Director of Interactive | Craig Staszkow |
Metro editor | Craig Clohessy, city editor |
Opinion editor | Marty Trillhaase |
Sports editor | Donn Walden |
Photo editor | Pete Caster |
Founded | 1892 Daily (1898)[2] |
Headquarters | 505 Capital Street Lewiston, Idaho, U.S. [3] |
City | Lewiston, Idaho |
Country | United States |
Circulation | 24,515 Daily 26,005 Sunday[4] |
Sister newspapers | Moscow-Pullman Daily News[5] |
ISSN | 0892-2586 |
OCLC number | 232117597 |
Website | lmtribune |
Nathan Alford became the editor and publisher on October 1, 2008. after the retirement of his father A L Butch Alford, making him the fourth publisher of the Tribune.[8][9] As of 2017, the Lewiston Tribune has a circulation of 25,000 papers in north-central Idaho and southeastern Washington.[10]
It was the first newspaper in Idaho to publish an electronic edition, which was offered in September 1995.[11] it is available via Amazon Kindle.[12] The LCCN is sn 82014515.[1]
Eugene L. Alford and Albert H. Alford founded the Lewiston Morning Tribune 132 years ago in 1892.[8][13] It started as a four-page weekly newspaper in 1892 and it went to twice-weekly in 1895. Later it became a morning daily newspaper in 1898.[2] Eugene worked as the publisher and business manager while Albert assumed the position of editor.[14]
After Albert H. Alford died in 1928, his nephew Albert L. Alford (1907–1968) returned to Lewiston from Washington and Lee University in Virginia to assume the position as a managing editor,[15] then became the publisher and editor after his father's death in 1946.[16] Known to his friends as "Bud" Alford,[17] Albert continued to work for the Tribune for 43 years.[18][19] Following his death in 1968, his son, Albert Larson "Butch" Alford, became the third publisher of the Tribune.[20]
Following 89 years of local ownership, two-thirds of the stock was sold in 1981 to TCI Newspapers of Denver.[21][22] Butch Alford repurchased the Tribune from TCI in December 1997.[23][24][25][26]
The Lewiston Morning Tribute partners with Inland 360 to publish articles about local businesses and events that are voted as the best by members of the community.[27] The Lewiston Morning Tribune also has a recognition article that allows people in the valley to vote once a week on a local athlete to become their "prep athlete of the week". The athlete who wins receives an article recognizing them in the sports section of the paper.[28]
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