The following story was written by Eric Peterson of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project and published in partnership with Utah Stories. Multi-level marketing is as American as apple pie and as Utahn as green jello. But in recent years, some of the biggest MLMs have realized that real growth and expansion means digging the base...
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project is excited again to take part in The Made in Utah Festival. This month we’ll be hosting another bar trivia fundraiser focused on local and national election trivia. Our Beer and Loathing on the Campaign Trail Trivia will be held at the festival on Saturday, Aug. 24, from 2-4 p.m. The festival...
The following story was written and reported by Eric Peterson of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Deseret News. SALT LAKE CITY — On June 28, 2018, a Tesla Model S was cruising through the desert west of Salt Lake City as part of an unusual, and potentially dangerous, experiment. Heading...
This month we’re holding a summer membership drive and we’re looking to recruit 500 new “muckrakers” who will commit to a $2 monthly donation to The Utah Investigative Journalism Project. Of course larger monthly donations are also welcome, and can easily be arranged by the click of a button through the PayPal link on our...
The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded The Utah Investigative Journalism Project several awards for 2018 reporting, including the state’s top investigative reporting prize at its annual banquet last night. Project founder and reporter Eric Peterson was awarded the Don Baker Investigative Reporting Award for the two part-series “Who Killed...
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project is excited to now offer our training sessions as a paid service to non-media organizations. After hearing from multiple local businesses and community groups interested in receiving investigative training, we’ve decided to offer training sessions as a paid service to non-media groups. If you represent a business, nonprofit, or community...
The following was written and researched by Eric Peterson of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Seven months after it was called out in a critical legislative audit for questionable spending of public dollars, the Utah Restaurant Association is back asking state lawmakers for more than $400,000 in appropriations....
Have you been keeping up with legislative shenanigans on Utah’s capitol? Been watching bill files the way some people check sports scores? Do you toss and turn over fiscal notes? Have you also been horrified/obsessed with national news out of D.C.– from keeping up with the fast moving inaction of congress to battles over border...
The following was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Spectrum & Daily News. Eugene Richardson is a Mormon fundamentalist who lives on a very lonely patch of desert about 45 minutes west of Cedar City. He lives in a small trailer on 80 acres of sand and sagebrush...
The following was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune Stacy Bankhead has gathered over a dozen thick binders full of documents — report cards, educational assessments, police reports and more — that she says chronicle a decade of the Provo School District’s neglect of the...