The following story was written and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah Stories. Life is going to be easy in your techno-fabulous Vivint Smart Home of the not too-distant future. Why? Because your smart home will act like a sophisticated security guard/nanny/third parent. You can come home, kick back, and...
The following is the second in a two-part series that was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Read Part 1 here. Anthony Adams, a gay, black Socialist activist, was found brutally stabbed to death in his Salt lake City Avenues apartment on Nov. 6, 1978....
The following is the first in a two-part series written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. You can read part 2 here. “Who Killed Anthony Adams?” The question spray-painted as graffiti across Salt Lake City 40 years ago still begs an answer. Adams’ body was discovered...
The following story was written and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with West View Media. Preston Lange had just embarked on the pilgrimage many a plucky young 20s-something will make, heading out of his hometown to chase his dream and make a living on his own terms. But he had only...
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project is excited to announce that it will be hosting a panel discussion on how local journalism will survive and fight through the scourge of misinformation and manipulation that abounds in our current “fake news” era. The discussion, to be part of The Made in Utah Festival will focus on...
There’s an old saying that “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on”—that was a saying true to the last century. Nowadays a lie has circled the globe dozens of times and been clicked, shared, liked, and re-shared again millions of times while the truth is...
The following story was written and researched by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. In 2015, Ken Grover, an administrator in the Salt Lake City School District, took the stage at the Salt Lake City TedX talk for his 15 minutes of education-themed inspiration. He didn’t exactly have a...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with West View Media. Michael Clára, a former Salt Lake City School board member who used to represent the west side’s Precinct 2, will tell you and anyone that will listen that the east/west educational divide in Salt Lake City is a...
The following story was researched and written by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah Stories. On January 2, 2018, Amazon announced it had shipped 5-billion items through its Prime services alone in 2017. That year also saw many traditional retail stores washed away by the swift waters of change brought by online...
Update April 3, 2018: The Air Quality Investigation fund drive is now closed. Please check back later for our reporting on this important topic and thanks again to all those who donated! The Utah Investigative Journalism Project is very excited to announce a special campaign for 2018, a long-term investigation into the grimy issue on...