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...
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...