1870 • The Salt Lake Tribune was founded by three businessmen estranged from the LDS Church. It was called the Mormon Tribune for its first year.
1871 • Name changed to Salt Lake Daily Tribune.
1873 • Three Kansas businessmen buy The Tribune and turn it into an anti-Mormon newspaper.
1901 • U.S. Sen. Thomas Kearns and business partner David Keith buy the paper.
1918 • The Kearns family buys the Keith family's interest after David Keith's death.
1997 • The Kearns/McCarthey family sells Kearns-Tribune to Telecommunications Inc. (TCI) in $731 million stock deal, expecting to be able to buy it back later.
1999 • TCI is purchased by AT&T.
2000 • MediaNews Group buys The Tribune from AT&T, triggering a lawsuit by the McCartheys.
2007 • The McCarthey family agrees to end all lawsuits against MediaNews Group.
2010 • After MediaNews Group's bankruptcy, ownership of The Tribune shifts to Alden Global Capital, a New York City hedge fund.
2016 • Huntsman family agrees to purchase the print newspaper, its online edition and Web advertising arm.
Mike Gorrell
