The Utah Investigative Journalism Project is hosting a free webinar about how to pitch stories to journalists. The event will be on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 6-7 p.m. Come get your questions answered about what makes a good story pitch and what you can expect from the reporting process from a panel of local journalists....
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. Ann didn’t immediately go into the Hurricane City police station. Instead, she waited outside for nearly half an hour, trying to build up enough courage to walk inside. She was grappling with the decision of whether or not...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Salt Lake City Weekly. Jonathan Rodriguez started noticing small issues after moving into the Legends at River Oaks apartment complex in Sandy: a musty smell; a bit of mold in the toilet; and the fact that his cat, Toby, went from...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KSL.com. PROVO — When “Emily” got the letter from the court about her case, it was almost too late. The court sent it to an old address she hadn’t used for years since she was a freshman at Brigham Young University....
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch Carlos Trujillo couldn’t sleep despite it being well past midnight. As both an immigrant and an immigration lawyer, Trujillo has been acutely tuned into the volatile nature of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. That night, in the early...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER and the Daily Herald. Firearms, ballistic vests, breathalyzers, police vehicles, wages for law enforcement officers — these are some of the ways counties are using the money they received to combat the opioid crisis. Utah counties have taken a combined...
The following story was reported by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KSL.com. The reporting was funded with support from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. SALT LAKE CITY — He was very charismatic in the beginning. He told the women he was a pilot, a marine biologist or...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Salt Lake City Weekly. A $3,000 stay at a French chateau; a wedding registry website; a $900 visit to a steakhouse, TopGolf, a bowling alley, hunting and pickleball clubs, carwashes and phone repair services. These are a few of the ways Utah...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER, The Standard-Examiner and St. George News. The opioid epidemic has had a profound toll on social worker Mindy Vincent. First, she buried her sister, who died from an opioid overdose in 2014. During the next decade, over 40 of her clients...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah Stories. St. George, Utah, and Las Vegas may be worlds apart culturally, but the two share a number of important characteristics when it comes to water conservation: low rainfall, high temperatures, heavy tourism and rapid population growth. Both are also...