Salt Lake City: Livability in the 21st Century

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
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Above: Tribune Building, 2005.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF PAUL FRAUGHTON.
Below: The Salt Lake Tribunes’s newsroom, 2013.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF TRENT NELSON.
Utah’s independent source of news for more than 140
years, The Salt Lake Tribune is where Utahns go when they
need to know.
The Tribune was started in 1871 by William Godbe, a
dissident Mormon who broke from Brigham Young over
Young’s attempts to close Utah’s economy to non-Mormons.
Its early years were marked by defiance of the church and
its leaders, but that gave way to a more accommodating era
in the mid-twentieth century that still fostered The Tribune’s
fierce independence.
In 1957, The Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of
a mid-air plane collision over the Grand Canyon that killed
128 people. The planes went down in an isolated canyon
nearly 400 miles from the newsroom, but that did not prevent
reporters and photographers from getting a complete
report in the next day’s paper.
Today The Tribune operates a sophisticated news-gathering
operation, delivering information to readers of the print
edition, the website sltrib.com and mobile apps. The paper
is delivered throughout Utah, and the site is viewed by more
than 2.4 million unique visitors each month.
A consistent award winner for investigative reporting,
The Tribune keeps Utah politicians and power players under
public scrutiny while providing a comprehensive news
report encompassing politics, crime and courts, business,
entertainment, sports and opinion.
The Tribune website, sltrib.com, is a multimedia and
interactive powerhouse, offering photo galleries, videos
and interactive graphics. “Trib Talk” live chats invite readers
to engage both reporters and newsmakers, and more
than 40,000 readers post comments on stories each year.
The Tribune also maintains a vibrant presence on Facebook,
Twitter and Pinterest.
In 2012, sltrib.com was honored by Editor and Publisher
Magazine with an Eppy award as the best news website
worldwide (tying with the Toronto Globe and Mail site).
As part of its commitment to open government,
The Tribune operates UtahsRight.com, a website dedicated
to publishing government information such as court
proceedings, childcare and restaurant inspections and
public employee salaries. The site receives more than ten
million page views annually and is the clearinghouse in
Utah for public data.
Through it all, The Tribune has maintained its high
standards for accuracy and professionalism. Telling it right
for all of Utah. That is The Salt Lake Tribune way.
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