CHRISTMAS GIFT? Waters Kids taking over Columbia Daily Tribune

COLUMBIA, 12/21/10  (Beat Byte) -- In a major management reshuffling, Columbia Daily Tribune publisher Hank Waters has announced that Andy Waters and sister Elizabeth -- his two youngest children -- will buy out four other family members and assume full ownership of the century-old newspaper effective Jan. 1. 

 

Waters will continue writing editorials, while wife Vicki Russell will become publisher. 

 

General manager Jack Waters and vice president Mary Waters, Waters' other children, will retire from their positions at the paper, also in January.