Lee Enterprises brings Great Falls Tribune into portfolio

By: Micah Drew

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: September 29, 2026

Words: 487

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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Lee Enterprises, which owns five of Montana’s largest circulation newspapers, is acquiring one more daily paper, the Great Falls Tribune, the company announced on Monday.

In Montana, Lee Enterprises owns The Billings Gazette, the Missoulian, the Helena Independent-Record, the Montana Standard, and the Ravalli Republic.

With Lee’s acquisition of the Tribune, the company controls newspapers in most of the state’s major population centers. Only Bozeman, Livingston and the Kalispell area are served by daily news …

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