Tulsa Tribune
The Tulsa Tribune was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1919 to 1992. Owned and run by three generations of the Jones family, the Tribune closed in 1992 after the termination of its joint operating agreement with the morning Tulsa World.[1][2]
Location
20 East Archer Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma
1924
July 16, 1979
Daily newspaper
Richard Lloyd Jones Sr., Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Richard Lloyd Jones Jr.
Richard Lloyd Jones Sr.
Richard Lloyd Jones Sr.
Richard Lloyd Jones Sr., Jenkin Lloyd Jones Sr., Jenkin Lloyd Jones Jr.
1919
Conservative
English
1992
Tulsa, Oklahoma
History[edit]
Antecedents[edit]
In 1895, a group of Tulsans established a publication called The New Era, intended to convey a more positive image of the then-small town than that found in the existing paper, The Indian Republican. Supporters of Democratic Party leader William Jennings Bryan, they changed the name of The New Era to The Democrat in 1898. The paper was unprofitable and the publisher, R. L. Lunsford, sold it to Dave Jesse, who established the Tulsa Democrat as a daily in 1904, and sold it to William Stryker in 1905.[3] Stryker sold the paper in 1916[3] (or 1915[4]) to Charles Page, founder of the neighboring city of Sand Springs, who used the newspaper to promote his plan for the city of Tulsa to obtain its water from Shell Creek, near Sand Springs, rather than from Spavinaw in eastern Oklahoma.[4]
Notable staff[edit]
In addition to his positions at the Tribune, Jenkin Lloyd Jones Sr. was a syndicated columnist whose column was carried in as many as 150 newspapers.[27] He was president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1956, and president of the United States Chamber of Commerce in 1969.[22]
Joseph A. Brandt was the city editor of the Tribune in the 1920s before moving into academia as head of the University of Oklahoma Press and Princeton University Press (and, briefly, as President of the University of Oklahoma).[28] William P. Steven, who later held senior editor positions with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Houston Chronicle, and Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times, began his career with the Tulsa Tribune in 1930 and served as managing editor from 1937 to 1941, before moving to the newly formed Office of Censorship.[29] Other notable authors who worked at the Tulsa Tribune at some point in their careers included humorist H. Allen Smith, war correspondent Jim G. Lucas,[30] science writer Martin Gardner,[31] and sportswriter Mike Sowell.[32]
While working for the Tulsa Tribune at the age of 19, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Langenkamp appeared as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola productions The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983) before going on to star in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise as Nancy Thompson.
Tribune Building[edit]
The Tribune Building, at 20 East Archer Street, was built in 1924 and housed the Tribune until 1942.[33] It was the first building in Oklahoma built as a newspaper plant.[34] It subsequently served as a storage facility and as a mission for the homeless.[33][35] The building lay largely vacant from 1971 until 2001, when it was renovated and converted into loft apartments under the name Tribune Lofts.[33][36][37] The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A and C on July 16, 1979. Its NRIS number is 79003644.[34]