History
The Tribune was founded in Sept. 12, 1901, by former University of Missouri student Charles Monro Strong with assistance from Barratt O’Hara as the first daily newspaper in Columbia. Its offices were on the third floor of the Stone Building at 15 S. Ninth St.
Before 1901, news was offered by three weeklies, the Missouri Intelligencer, The Columbia Patriot and The Columbia Statesman.
In 1902 Earnest M. Mitchell joined and they moved it to the Whittle Building at 911a E. Broadway (now home to KOPN. Mitchell bought Strong out in 1905 but died shortly thereafter from typhoid fever.
In 1905 the Waters/Watson family bought the newspaper. Edwin Watson operated the Tribune until 1937, when he passed control to his nephew, H.J. Waters Jr. In 1966, Hank Waters succeeded his father and continued to operate the Tribune until December 31, 2010.
On January 1, 2011 Hank Waters' children Andy Waters and his sister Elizabeth bought out four other family members to take full ownership of the company. Vicki Russell, Hank Waters' wife, became the publisher - the first woman to ever hold that position, Andy Waters became co-owner of the Tribune and its president and general manager and Hank Waters took the title of publisher emeritus.
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