WALTON COUNTY – Born at the beginning of the 20th Century, The Walton Tribune has marked more than 100 years as the county's leading news source. The Tribune is a twice-weekly community newspaper that is the newspaper of record for Walton County, Georgia.

The paper was started in 1900 by a dozen stockholders, and was first edited by W.G. McNelley, who was followed by J.T. Fain and Eugene Smith. On Jan. 1, 1906, Earnest Camp, 25, a native of Swainsboro, took over the editor's chair for the hefty sum of $50 a month. By 1907, he had acquired the paper's common stock and become its owner.

Camp held the post for 61 years, overseeing the change from a hand press to an electric powered one, from a hand compositor to the Linotype, hot lead, type-setting machine. Following his death in 1957, Camp's torch was picked up by a new generation of Camps, primarily Earnest Camp Jr. and Sanders Camp who carried the paper for another 20-years before its sale to Harte Hanks in the late 1970s.

The newspaper has been owned by Southern Newspapers since the 1980s. Currently, the newspaper is published in print and on the Internet every Wednesday and Sunday. The newspaper has been repeatedly honored with Georgia Press Association awards, including six-consecutive General Excellence designations, making it the most honored community newspaper in the state.