The Great Falls Tribune has been serving northcentral Montana for more than 122 years. The Great Falls Tribune originated in 1885 as a weekly newspaper and is the oldest business in Great Falls. Two years later, the Tribune became a daily afternoon paper and then converted to a morning publication in 1890. Other highlights:
In March 1990, Gannett Co. Inc. bought the newspaper.
In 2000 we won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting and launched our website www.greatfallstribune.com.
In 2002 we purchased Consumers Press, Montana’s largest shopper, with 29,000 copies distributed weekly.
In 2005 we launched the e-Edition, an electronic newspaper online.
In 2005 we expanded our commercial print business by creating River’s Edge Printing and Distribution.
More recently we have transformed into an around-the-clock news and information center with breaking news being posted online throughout the day and into the night. No other news media can deliver the local, communities news like we can. By expanding the interactivity of our Website, we are reaching more readers than ever through online videos, photo galleries, blogs and forums.
Our delivery area serves a sprawling 13-county area, roughly the size and shape of S. Carolina with a population of 117,900 adults. Great Falls online has an average of 168,775 unique visitors to the site each month, with more than 1.8 million pages viewed.
7 of 10 adults in our 13-county region read the Great Falls Tribune in the past 7-days.
Average weekday readers: 67,948
Average Sunday readers: 79,259
Source: 2004 Market Study by Wilkerson and Associates, Inc.
The Great Falls Tribune tradition of great journalism will continue to thrive whether you read the daily newspaper delivered to your door each morning, or get your news from our Website or e-Edition newspaper. We remain the source most relied on for local news and information.
Our mission is to be Montana’s leading source of news and information. We are committed to meeting the highest expectations of our customers, communities, employees and shareholders.
We provide accurate and comprehensive news, advertising and public service information to our readers in a timely fashion. The Great Falls Tribune is made up of many departments, all working together toward this common goal.
Excellence is our standard. We care about the needs of our readers, our advertisers, subscribers and employees and the people of our community. We are dedicated to developing a diverse work force that reflects the communities we serve.
Beyond our professional efforts, being active in our community is a priority. Being good citizens goes hand in hand with being good workers.
Our commitment to the community is twofold: We achieve our greatest success by producing a quality newpaper and helping to make our community a better place in which to live.
No one has yet found a way to improve on honesty, hard work, fairness and ethics, either as a way to do business or as a way to lead their lives.
These are the values our employees possess – plus enthusiasm is a gift we give to all of our customers and readers.
Our employees are proud to have careers at:
--The Great Falls Tribune, founded in 1885
--Consumers Press, founded in 1977
--River’s Edge Printing & Distribution, founded in 2005
We are always looking for talented, hard-working people with creativity and enthusiam. We offer positions in many different career tracks:
Accounting, Administrative/Clerical, Advertising, Human Resouces, Online, Information Technologies, pre-press, press, distribution, circulation customer service and sales, marketing, graphic design and of course news reporting and editing.
“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
-Pele’
We offer many publications and services to our readers, but most importantly we record and report the events that affect lives in our area. By blending local and community news, adding sports, comics, features and business news and providing national and international news, we work to inform and entertain our readers as well as offer advertisers the best vehicle to reach their target audience.
Through our Website we provide intense, local, interactivity by showcasing news videos, photo galleries, blogs and forums that our readers can view and comment on. Providing breaking news and information around-the-clock in whatever form necessary is our promise to our readers.
We also sell and produce numerous niche specialty publications for advertisers and readers.
The Tribune’s commercial printing division, River’s Edge Printing & Distribution, specializes in color printing of weekly and monthly publications. We also offer services in pre-press, mailing and distribution.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage mental health and prescription drug program.
Gannett spending account: pre-tax health and/or dependant care spending account
Company-provided term life insurance and voluntary insurance programs:
supplemental life insurance, accident coverage, spouse and/or child life insurance
Adoption assistance plan.
Gannett 401(k) savings plan
Company-paid retirement/pension program
Income protection plan
Travel accident insurance
Travel assistance program
Stock purchase plan
Vacation – 2 weeks the first year
Paid Holidays
Paid Personal days
Paid Volunteer time
Employee Assistance Program
Funeral/bereavement leave
Jury duty/court appearances
Tuition assistance
Newspaper subscription discounts
Classified advertising discount
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