| Type | Daily newspaper [1] |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Eugene L. Alford Albert H. Alford |
| Publisher | Nathan Alford |
| President | A. L. Alford Jr., president, TPC Holdings |
| Editor | Nathan Alford |
| Managing editor | Matt Baney |
| Metro editor | Jennifer Ladwig |
| Opinion editor | Marty Trillhaase |
| Sports editor | Stephan Wiebe |
| Photo editor | August Frank |
| 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(as of 2014) [4] |
| Sister newspapers | Moscow-Pullman Daily News [5] |
| ISSN | 0892-2586 |
| OCLC number | 232117597 |
| Website | lmtribune |
The Lewiston Morning Tribune is an independently owned newspaper in the northwestern United States, located in Lewiston, Idaho. [6] Founded in 1892, it serves eight counties in north-central Idaho and southeastern Washington, the southern portion of the Inland Empire. [7] As of 2017, the Lewiston Tribune has a circulation of 25,000 papers in north-central Idaho and southeastern Washington. [8]
It was the first newspaper in Idaho to publish an electronic edition, which was offered in September 1995. [9] [10]
Eugene L. Alford and Albert H. Alford founded the Lewiston Morning Tribune133 years ago in 1892. [11] [12] 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. [13]
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, [14] then became the publisher and editor after his father's death in 1946. [15] Known to his friends as "Bud" Alford, [16] Albert continued to work for the Tribune for 43 years. [17] [18] Following his death in 1968, his son, A.L. Alford Jr., became the third publisher of the Tribune. [19]
Following 89 years of local ownership, two-thirds of the stock was sold in 1981 to Kerns-Tribune. [20] [21] A.L. Alford Jr. repurchased the Tribune from TCI (who had purchased Kerns-Tribune in 1997) in a deal that was finalized March 31, 1998. The transition also introduced an employee ownership component to the business. [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] 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. [11] [27]