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23/07/2025

Tell us what you think: Who should win BYU's quarterback job?

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Why Salt Lake City could be on deck for a swing at a new franchise.

23/07/2025

BYU's had one of its best recruiting windows in decades and fans are bragging. While the Utes and Cougars battle it out online, maybe a look at the numbers will help settle an argument.

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After a man drowned at Causey Reservoir, officials and a cliff jumper share their experience with the lake, what it offers them and why it's a difficult spot to rescue someone.

23/07/2025

“Music & the Spoken Word” has been on the air since 1929. Much has changed, yet much has remained exactly the same.

23/07/2025

Historian Ardis Parshall describes some little-known adventures and misadventures from the Mormon pioneers' epic trek to what is now Utah.

23/07/2025

Good news from our sister paper in Moab:
Cooler weather and overcast skies allowed firefighters on the Deer Creek Fire to make big progress as the fire that started July 10 near Old La Sal off Highway 46 in San Juan County is now 77% contained.

Cooler weather and overcast skies allowed firefighters on the Deer Creek Fire to make big progress as the fire that started July 10 near Old La Sal off Highway 46 in San Juan County is now 77% contained.

23/07/2025

West Valley City has cleared the way for the sale of the Utah Grizzlies. Here's everything you need to know.

23/07/2025

A massive new sports and cultural complex is being proposed for Shivwits reservation land 10 miles west of St. George

23/07/2025

Hedgehog Investments' 'misuse of investor funds' led to 'grave and immediate harm to investors,' Utah regulators say in an emergency cease and desist order.

23/07/2025

New single-family homes are planned along busy 400 South in Salt Lake City.

23/07/2025

U.S. House Republicans are seeking to slash funding for the management of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
According to a proposed funding bill for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Interior, the Bureau of Land Management would have to follow the 2020 management plans for Grand Staircase-Escalante that were enacted after President Trump shrunk the monument in 2017. This would effectively limit the BLM’s ability to protect roughly 900,000 acres of land within the current monument boundaries.

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Here’s how The Salt Lake Tribune became the first nonprofit legacy newspaper in the U.S. ⬇️

It started about 150 years ago. The first edition of what is now called The Tribune hit the streets on April 15, 1871. It was called “The Tribune & Utah Mining Gazette.”

For the next 30 years, The Tribune passed through a series of salty owners who engaged the publication in raucous duels with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1901, the newspaper was acquired by U.S. Sen. Thomas Kearns and David Keith, prominent Utah mining figures.

Upon Kearns’ death in 1918, sole ownership was acquired by the Kearns family. The circulation at the time was 10,000 on weekdays and 15,000 on Sundays. In 1924, John F. Fitzpatrick became the publisher. Under his direction, the afternoon Salt Lake Telegram was merged into the morning Salt Lake Tribune in 1952. It was also under the Fitzpatrick tenure that The Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its reporting of a 1956 air disaster over the Grand Canyon.

The Tribune and the Latter-day Saint church-owned Deseret News signed a joint operating agreement (JOA) in 1952, with U.S. Justice Department approval, to form an independent entity called the Newspaper Agency Corporation (NAC). Under this JOA agreement, the advertising, production and delivery operations of the two newspapers were handled by the NAC, also known as Utah Media Group. Editorially, however, The Tribune and Deseret News remained independent and competitive.

John W. Gallivan became president and publisher upon Fitzpatrick’s death in 1960. When Gallivan took publisher emeritus status in 1984, Jerry O’Brien was named Tribune publisher and Dominic Welch became president and CEO of Kearns Tribune. Upon O’Brien’s death in 1994, Welch assumed the publisher’s responsibilities and duties.

In 1997, The Tribune was sold to Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI). But after the newspaper’s sale to TCI, the company merged with AT&T Corp. and in January 2001, Denver-based Media News Group bought the newspaper and Dean Singleton became publisher.

With the emergence of the internet, the entire newspaper industry faced financial instability and by 2010 The Tribune was sold again, this time to Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund, with Terry Orme becoming publisher in 2013. In 2014, Alden renegotiated the JOA with the Deseret News to The Tribune’s financial disadvantage, prompting layoffs, a lawsuit and a U.S. Department of Justice investigation.

After two years of intense negotiations, Utah businessman Paul Huntsman bought the newspaper, becoming owner and publisher in 2016. He continued to support the Tribune’s tradition of hard-hitting local news coverage, a decision that led to the newspaper’s second Pulitzer Prize in 2017.

But as the financial instability of the newspaper industry continued to threaten The Tribune’s long-term success, Huntsman applied to the IRS for nonprofit status, arguing the newspaper’s mission and purpose was charitable in nature and the business should be a community asset. On Oct. 29, 2019, the IRS granted The Tribune 501(c)(3) status, making it the first legacy newspaper in the U.S. to transform from a for-profit company to a nonprofit entity. Under the new structure, The Tribune is governed by a board of directors, with Huntsman serving as chairman of the board.

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