About The Beaufort Tribune

The Beaufort Tribune is owned and operated by Hometown Local Media, Inc., a South Carolina corporation controlled by its editor and publisher, George Graham Trask.

The Beaufort Tribune was originally founded in 1874 by Winchell French, son of Mansfield French, who led the missionaries from New York, Philadelphia and Boston who came to Beaufort during the Civil War to help the newly freed slaves. In 2009 George Trask, who today owns the house the French family purchased during the Civil War, established The Beaufort Tribune on the Internet when The Beaufort Gazette, owned by a California conglomerate, closed its editorial office in Beaufort.

George Trask is a Beaufort native who attended the public schools of Beaufort, Davidson College (BA in History and Economics), Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He served in the United States Army Intelligence Corps as a counterintelligence officer and in Atlanta as a corporate and tax lawyer in what are now two of the largest law firms in the United States: King & Spalding and Alston & Bird. He has been involved as owner/operator of numerous businesses in the Beaufort area including First Carolina Bank, Beaufort Broadcasting Company (WBEU and WBEU-FM), Best Western Sea Island Inn, Rose Supply Company, Coastal Villages Press, and Distant Island Company. His community services have included membership on the boards of Penn Community Center (vice chairman), Historic Beaufort Foundation, and Beaufort-Jasper Water Authority.

The Beaufort Tribune is the only locally owned daily newspaper serving the entirety of Beaufort County. Our content is entirely free to our readers. In 2012 our pages were read more than 7,000,000 times (source: Google Analytics).

Hometown Local Media, Inc.
d/b/a:
The Beaufort Tribune
BeaufortTribune.com

Publisher/Editor:
George Graham Trask

Business Manager:
Susan Yoakum Woods

Sunrise Photographer:
Jack Howison

Occasional Columnists:
Janet Carr Hull
Robert H. Moore
Charles Webb III

Editorial Office:
Hometown Local Media, Inc.
105 Distant Island Drive
Beaufort, South Carolina 29907

U.S. Mail:
Hometown Local Media, Inc.
PO Box 6300
Beaufort, South Carolina 29903

Telephone:
843-278-0140