The Utah Investigative Journalism Project was denied access to a 2012 report on the actions of former Utah Transit Authority board members by a state panel Thursday. The report, compiled by Utah attorney general’s office investigators delved into allegations of insider dealings that have dogged former UTA board member and developer Terry Diehl since the...
Author: Eric Peterson (Eric Peterson)
The Media Is Under Fire For Being Too Biased And Not Biased Enough
The following op-ed appeared in the Dec. 17, 2017 Salt Lake Tribune. As a journalist I hate to hear complaints of bias in the media. Bias exists, of course. Reporters are people like anyone else, full wells of unique and fervent beliefs, and when a reporter’s bias bleeds into their work it diminishes the news, and...
More New Notes to be Available from Aug 27
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Celebrities Who Should Consider a Writing Career
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A Beginner’s Guide to Contemporary Beauty & Fashion
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Driving Development: Two Utah lawmakers could profit due to West Davis Corridor they’ve championed
The following story first appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune on May 8, 2017. It was researched and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. The West Davis Corridor, a roughly 20-mile stretch of planned new freeway in northern Utah, has been around for more than a...
Death on the Job: Utah’s worker safety agency rejects ‘heavy-handed’ enforcement
The following story originally appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune, March 7, 2017. It was researched and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune Hypoxia is a medical term for the condition of electrical failure in the brain’s cells from lack of oxygen. It’s a peril common to...
Utah lawmaker-lawyers have dual role: writing laws, fighting laws
This story originally appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune, February 13, 2017. It was written and reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Salt Lake Tribune. Some Utah legislators write laws at the Capitol that they turn around and fight over in state courts. Like all of the state’s part-time lawmakers,...
Let’s Turn Over Some Rocks and See What Crawls Out
I am excited to introduce to you The Utah Investigative Journalism Project, the first of its kind in Utah—a nonprofit dedicated to producing, publishing and supporting in-depth, watchdog journalism. The kind of journalism most expensive for newsrooms to create, and perhaps most important for Utahns to see, hear and read about to be informed and...







