Double your donation and double your investment in investigative journalism that gives voice to the voiceless! Hello supporters! We are excited to announce that we have been selected to take part in NewsMatch 2023! Starting now—through December 31— NewsMatch will match your new monthly donation 12 times or double your one-time gift, all up to$1,000. This is a great opportunity but we can’t do it...
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project is excited to announce a very special project we have in the works, a resource guide especially for journalists we’re calling The Utah Reporters’ Almanac. It’s going to be full of useful tips and articles on everything from searching databases to understanding recent laws affecting transparency and open access....
Hello friends I’m very excited to announce that we have been accepted into the NewsMatch Program! From November 1 until December 31, NewsMatch will match individual donations up to $1,000 for a total cap of $10,000. But it gets better! We’ve also got another $10,000 challenge grant from the incredibly generous Jean Welch-Hill! That means...
The following was written by Utah Investigative Journalism Project board member Cathy McKitrick. It’s a win! My three-plus years battle to obtain government records culminated Thursday in a Utah Supreme Court decision that deflated the arguments of Peter Stirba, attorney for former Weber County Commissioner Kerry Gibson. Gibson had been the subject of a months-long...
The following was written by Cathy McKitrick, a freelance journalist and board member of The Utah Investigative Journalism Project. The following was published in conjunction with Utah Political Underground. When I filed my May 2018 GRAMA request seeking the contents and findings of the criminal probe into former Weber County Commissioner Kerry Gibson, I had...
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project took home top honors in the Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists statewide competition. We won the special Roy B. Gibson Freedom of Information Award for our report on a previously undisclosed $350,000 loan and plane tickets given to Greg Hughes by influential developer Terry Diehl even...
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project took home top honors in the Society of Professional Journalists “Top of the Rockies” regional contest, competing against media outlets in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah. We took First Place in the “Investigative/Enterprise Reporting” category for our expose on the student-teacher aide who had been sexually abusing underage deaf...
The following was written by Utah Investigative Journalism Project board member Cathy McKitrick. OGDEN — Timely access to government records is fundamental to journalists doing their jobs with any precision and accuracy. Otherwise, news reports can easily deteriorate into he-said, she-said mode, leaving the public to speculate and possibly draw misleading conclusions. That is one...
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...
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...