


The newspaper was born three years after pioneers arrived in 1847. The Deseret News is named after the territory’s early title. About 160 people associated with the two newspapers’ joint print operations will also be laid off. The Deseret News will lay off six journalists and give severance packages to 18 staffers in visual editing and sales departments. I look forward to reading online, but I’ll miss both papers dearly.” “Local journalism is essential to democracy. “It’s hard to believe we’ll no longer have a daily print paper in SLC,” she wrote. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall tweeted that it’s a significant change for the city. The Deseret News will also have a monthly magazine.ĭeseret News Editor Doug Wilks said in an op-ed that the publication owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will continue its “national leadership role as the watchdog of the family and of faith in the public square.” The two publications have a joint-operating agreement that will end later this year.īoth papers will offer a weekly print publication.

There were some journalist layoffs at the Deseret News. The Salt Lake Tribune, which won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 2017, is not cutting newsroom staff. In Salt Lake City, both newspapers will continue to publish breaking stories online every day. city without a daily newspaper last year - before the nation's economy was thrown into turmoil by the pandemic. Youngstown, Ohio, became the largest U.S. Much of that has come in smaller markets, though papers in cities such as New Orleans and Pittsburgh have also cut print days less deeply. had lost a newspaper over the past 15 years. The newspaper industry has been in crisis, with The Associated Press finding in 2019 that some 1,400 cities and towns across the U.S. Through its broad coverage of the community and its multiple media platforms serving all audiences across the region, the Union-Tribune delivers news, information and ideas that improve the quality of life of San Diegans and help make San Diego a better place.No Go: San Diego Auto Show Puts It in Park Again in 2021 Every week, the Union-Tribune reaches more than 96% of all San Diego County households by leveraging the combined strength of its integrated media portfolio: the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, the Union-Tribune the region’s leading website, the weekly entertainment guide, Night + Day the entertainment and nightlife website, Spanish-language product Hoy San Diego and additional home-delivered products. The San Diego Union-Tribune serves more people in more places on more platforms than any other media company in San Diego. The San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC, owned by tronc, LLC, is San Diego’s most dynamic media company and the region’s most trusted and comprehensive source of local news and information.
