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The Salt Lake Tribune is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City,Utah. The Tribune is owned by The Salt Lake Tribune,Inc.,a non-profit corporation. For almost 100 years,it was a family-owned newspaper held by the heirs of U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns. After Kearns died in 1918,the company was controlled by his widow,Jennie Judge Kearns,and then the newspaper's longtime publisher was John F. Fitzpatrick,who started his career as secretary to Senator Kearns in 1913 and remained publisher until his death in 1960. John W. Gallivan,nephew of Mrs. Kearns,joined the Tribune in 1937 and succeeded Fitzpatrick as publisher in 1960,remaining as Chairman until the merger with TCI,Inc. in 1997. On April 20,2016,Huntsman Family Investments,a private equity firm headed by Paul Huntsman,son of industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr.,announced that it would be buying the Tribune. He soon announced plans to take the paper non-profit. In November 2019 the newspaper won approval from the Internal Revenue Service to become a 501(c)(3) non-profit. In October 2020,the newspaper announced it would cease daily print publication at the end of the year,shifting instead to a weekly print product while maintaining a robust online presence. It is the first daily newspaper to become a nonprofit.[ The newspaper's motto,at the top of its masthead,is "Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871".