We are excited to announce the newest edition of The Utah Reporters Almanac is here! Every year we produce our Almanac as a resource to journalists and curious and engaged citizens and fill it with information on understanding and accessing open government. In this edition we recapped the 2025 legislative session’s brutal impact on state...
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April 7, 2025April 7, 2025Government, Training
Free webinar on using state transparency website
Transparent Utah is a site that can show you everything from the highest paid salaries of government officials to how different government agencies are spending taxpayer dollars. You can explore per-student spending patterns across the state, analyze property assessments across the state and compare costs for common healthcare procedures in your community. It’s an incredible...
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February 17, 2025February 17, 2025Editorial, Government
Spending your tax dollars to hide government secrets
The following was written by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. Utah lawmakers are not only trying to close off your access to records about how the government does (or doesn’t) work — they want you to pay the bill for it. Two bills are taking direct aim at the...


