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 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...
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...