Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871

“In a historic change, The Salt Lake Tribune will stop printing and delivering a daily edition at year’s end and switch to a weekly printed newspaper delivered by mail.

“The nonprofit Tribune’s board of directors announced the decision Monday, shortly after The Tribune and the Deseret News released their decision to end a generations-long print partnership.

“The move ends a 68-year-old business contract, but it means something more basic to print readers — a vanishing cultural mainstay. Millions since 1871 have enjoyed crisp copies of The Tribune left in their front yards or stacked into sidewalk racks across Utah and the Intermountain West each morning.” . . .

“‘My morning coffee will never be the same,’ [one reader] wrote, echoing many others. ‘This is terrible news for me and for our community.’

“‘I’m only a digital subscriber,’ another reader, located in Sugar House, wrote on Twitter, ‘but my 80 [year-old] dad is going to be out of luck.’”

—Tony Semerad, reporter, “Salt Lake Tribune will move to a weekly print edition in 2021,” Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 27, 2020.

 

• Editorial Comment: The 149-year-old Trib, long the counterweight to the Mormon Church-owned Deseret News, will continue as a robust digital news product, Trib leaders say, and there are no plans to lay off any of the 65 news-side staff. Once one of the largest 15 or so dailies in the country with a circulation of 200,000, the Trib's daily paid circulation has dipped to 36,000 in a metro area with a population of 2.2 million.

 

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