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Great Falls Tribune
May 18, 1887, issue of the Great Falls Tribune
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
OwnerUSA Today Co.
FounderWill Hanks
Founded1884
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters701 River Drive South #1
Great Falls, Montana, United States
CityHelena, Montana (publishing)
Websitegreatfallstribune.com

The Great Falls Tribune is a daily morning newspaper covering Great Falls, Montana. It is one of Montana's largest newspaper companies and printed in Helena, Montana.

History

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Will Hanks moved from Ohio to Montana to establish the Sun River Sun in Sun River, Montana.[1] It was first published on February 14, 1884.[2] A year later Hanks moved his printing plant to Great Falls, Montana.[1] The first edition of the Weekly Tribune was printed on May 14, 1885.[3] Hanks sold the Tribune in July 1887 to Jerry Collins.[4][1]

In 1890, David Marks and M.J. Hutchins, of the Helena Independent, purchased the Tribune.[5] J.A. McKnight was installed as editor in 1892.[6] A year later the paper was sold to its employees and McKnight was replaced by R.E. Gray.[7] The paper's mortgage was soon foreclosed and the business was sold at auction for $5,000 to A.M. Scott of First National bank in July 1894.[8] Phil A. Julien was then installed as editor.[9]

William McClure Bole purchased the paper in December 1894,[10] and operated it with Oliver Sherman Warden until selling it to William A. Clark in 1900.[11] McClure then operated the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.[12] Clark sold the paper to W.G. Conrad in October 1904.[13] McClure and Warden reacquired the Tribune in April 1905.[13]

McClure died in 1932.[12] Warden died in 1951,[14][15] then succeeded at the Tribune by his son Alexander Warden.[16] Decades later O.C. Warden was inducted into the Montana Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1958,[17] followed by W.M. Bole in 1963.[18] The Warden family sold the paper in 1965 to Tribune Co., owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.[19] Decades later the Cowles Media Company sold the Tribune to Gannett.[20]

The Tribune launched a subsidiary company, River's Edge Printing in 2006; the latter printed for weekly newspapers on a Goss Community press.[21] In July 2020, printing of the Great Falls Tribune moved to the presses of the Independent Record in Helena.[22]

Awards

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The Great Falls Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2000 for a yearlong series on alcoholism.[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Will Hanks". Great Falls Weekly Leader. September 10, 1890. p. 4.
  2. ^ "Our Bow". Sun River Sun. February 14, 1884. p. 2.
  3. ^ "Great Falls". Great Falls Tribune. May 14, 1885. p. 3.
  4. ^ "Jerry Collins". The Independent-Record. Helena, Montana. August 24, 1887. p. 4.
  5. ^ "The Tribune Sold". The Great Falls Leader. October 8, 1890. p. 1.
  6. ^ "Notice". The Teton Times. Choteau, Montana. September 3, 1892. p. 2.
  7. ^ "Notice". The Teton Times. Choteau, Montana. August 26, 1893. p. 2.
  8. ^ "News Of The State". The Anaconda Recorder and New Northwest. July 6, 1894. p. 4.
  9. ^ "Much Improved". Great Falls Tribune. August 14, 1894. p. 2.
  10. ^ "Changes Hands". Belt Valley Times. Armington, Montana. January 17, 1895. p. A8.
  11. ^ "Cut For A New Deal | Great Falls Tribune Sold to Clark, Much to the Dissatisfaction of Some Democrats". The Great Falls Leader. Great Falls, Montana. May 11, 1900. p. 4.
  12. ^ a b "W.M. Bole Rites To Be Thursday | Death Comes Suddenly for Noted Montana Editor". The Butte Daily Post. October 11, 1932. p. 12.
  13. ^ a b "Great Falls Tribune Sold". The Minneapolis Journal. April 7, 1905. p. 2.
  14. ^ "O.S. Warden, 85, Publisher of Tribune, Dies at Home". Great Falls Tribune. March 12, 1951. p. 1.
  15. ^ "OLIVER WARDEN, 85, PUBLISHER IN WEST; Head of Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune, Leader in State Reclamation Work, Dies". The New York Times. Associated Press. March 13, 1951. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  16. ^ "Alexander Warden Is Named Publisher of Great Falls Tribune". Livingston Enterprise. Associated Press. June 12, 1951. p. 6.
  17. ^ "Four State Newspapermen Picked for Hall of Fame". Great Falls Tribune. Associated Press. August 17, 1958. p. 1.
  18. ^ "Late W.M. Bole to Hall of Fame". Hungry Horse News. Columbia Falls, Montana. August 30, 1963. p. 7.
  19. ^ "Great Falls Tribune To Minneapolis Newspaper". The Montana Standard. Butte, Montana. Associated Press. April 11, 1965. p. 1.
  20. ^ "'Great Falls Tribune' joins the fold". USA Today. May 3, 1990. p. 7.
  21. ^ Flowers, Darryl L. "Great Falls Tribune's Presses To Go Silent In July". Fairfield Sun Times. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  22. ^ Independent Record and Associated Press. "Great Falls Tribune to be printed in Helena starting July 1". Helena Independent Record. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  23. ^ Barringer, Felicity; Wakin, Daniel J. (April 11, 2000). "Pulitzer Prizes Announced". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2025.
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