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The ''Hastings Tribune'' is a newspaper published in Hastings, Nebraska. The newspaper is put out six days a week, excluding Sundays. It serves ten counties in south central Nebraska and north central Kansas.〔("About Us". ) (Hastings Tribune website. ) Retrieved 2010-03-24.〕 In 2011, its circulation was 9356.〔("Listing by circulation". ) (Nebraska Press Association. ) Retrieved 2010-12-13.〕 ==History== In 1886, Frank D. Taggart founded the ''Independent'', a weekly paper intended to promote the Republican party. At about the same time, A. P. Brown and Dick Thompson founded the weekly ''Tribune''. The two newspapers were purchased and merged by A. H. Brown, who published the combined paper under the name ''Hastings Independent-Tribune''.〔Burton, William R. and David J. Lewis (1916). (''Past and Present of Adams County, Nebraska''. ) Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. pp. 343-44.〕 In 1894, the newspaper was purchased by Adam Breede, who changed its name to the ''Hastings Tribune''. In 1905, it began daily publication under the name ''Hastings Daily Tribune''; the weekly ''Tribune'' continued to be published. A Linotype was acquired in 1907, and a press in 1910; prior to those dates the type had been hand-set and the newspaper printed by the rival ''Adams County Democrat''.〔 Breede was an active promoter of municipal improvements. He also supported the political career of Hastings resident Charles Henry Dietrich. A lifelong bachelor, Breede left the ''Tribune'' in other hands while he acted as a war correspondent during World War I. After the war, he embarked on a big-game hunting expedition to Africa, where he contracted blackwater fever; the aftereffects of this led to his death in 1928.〔Creigh, Dorothy Weyer (1972). ''Adams County: The Story 1872-1972''. Adams County-Hastings Centennial Commission. p. 871.〕 Henry G. Smith, who had served as managing editor since 1905, took over as editor and publisher upon Breede's death. In 1937, he retired and the newspaper was sold to the Seaton family.〔Creigh, Dorothy Weyer (1971). ''Adams County: The People 1872-1972''. Adams County-Hastings Centennial Commission. p. 230.〕 Fay Seaton had owned and published the Manhattan, Kansas ''Mercury'' since 1915;〔Seaton, Ned. ("History of The Mercury". ) (Manhattan Mercury website. ) Retrieved 2010-04-03.〕 later, he had acquired the Manhattan ''Chronicle''.〔("Fred Seaton". ) (Kansas State Historical Society. ) Retrieved 2010-04-03.〕 In 1937, he and his sons Fred and Richard bought the ''Tribune'', and Fred was dispatched to Hastings to operate the newspaper.〔James, Burt. "Fred A. Seaton, Hastings Tribune publisher and former Secretary of Interior, had varied career". ''Hastings Tribune''. 1974-01-17. pp. 6-7.〕 Fred Seaton had worked on the two Manhattan newspapers since his youth, rising to the position of associate editor of Seaton Publications.〔 He edited and published the ''Tribune'' from 1937 until his death in 1974. His residence in Hastings was interrupted by a decade in Washington, DC, as a U.S. Senator and in a variety of positions in the Eisenhower administration. During his term as editor and publisher, the ''Tribune'' became the first Nebraska newspaper outside of the Lincoln-Omaha area to use wirephoto, and the only one to use three wire services. Near the end of his life, he converted the newspaper from letterpress to offset printing.〔 After Fred Seaton's death in 1974, his son Don Seaton became the publisher of the ''Tribune''. He held the position until his retirement in 2010.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hastings Tribune」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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