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FBI confirms ongoing investigation into former UTA boardmembers in order to protect records
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project was denied access to a 2012 report on the actions of former Utah Transit Authority...
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...
‘Scared all the time’: Former Daggett inmates describe abuse at the hands of jail officers
The following story was written and researched by Rone Tempest for The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The...
Out of Sight: Landfill near the Great Salt Lake could become one of the nation’s largest industrial waste repositories
The following story was written and reported by B. I. Empey and photographed by Chris Federer in partnership with The...
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...
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 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...
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...