Board and Management

Tribune Operations

The Salt Lake Tribune is a nonprofit that exists to learn the folk of Utah. It has no shareholders or participants. The Tribune is ruled by way of a Board of Administrators whose participants donate their time and abilities.

The Board jointly has fiduciary tasks over the control and operations of The Tribune. The group’s venture contains disseminating tough information protection and statement on which democracies and knowledgeable citizenry thrive. To that finish, the Board is liable for keeping up sustainable revenues with which The Tribune can produce very important information, considerate statement, operational potency and sustained enlargement.

Whilst the Board keeps final governing authority over The Tribune and its operations, the Board believes that it’s sound coverage to delegate the daily oversight and control of reports, promoting and move issues to The Tribune’s officials and senior team of workers participants. In a similar way, the Board has delegated control of Opinion journalism to the Tribune Editorial Board. The foregoing, alternatively, isn’t supposed to ban casual dialog of a non-directive nature between particular person administrators and Tribune team of workers.

The Salt Lake Tribune is led by way of a volunteer Board of Administrators.

Paul C. Huntsman served as the landlord and writer of The Salt Lake Tribune till he donated his possession to create the country’s first nonprofit metropolitan day-to-day in 2020. Paul serves as chair of The Salt Lake Tribune Inc. Board of Administrators and as president of Huntsman Circle of relatives Investments, LLC. He has over 25 years of board-level, operations and transactional revel in in business, monetary and funding services and products firms. He served as a vp at Huntsman Company from 1996 to 2004 and as a senior vp at Huntsman Homosexual World Capital, LLC from 2009 to 2013, the place he sourced, done and controlled non-public fairness transactions. Huntsman in the past served at the forums of Fortress Plastics, Huntsman Chemical and the Clark Planetarium, and recently serves at the forums of This Is The Position Park Basis, American Pacific Company, GTA Teleguam and the Huntsman Program in Global Research and Trade on the College of Pennsylvania.

Erin Laney Barr is a certified legal professional, spouse and co-founder of Barr Assets Building and industrial/residential realtor for Coldwell Banker Realty. She in the past spearheaded Philanthropic efforts for each United Means of Salt Lake and Lady Scouts of Utah. In 2018, she used to be identified as one in all Utah Trade’s “40 below 40” for her paintings as Vice President of Trade Building at EDCUtah. Previous to relocating again to her domestic state of Utah, Erin used to be a Senior Go together with Pite Duncan LLP in San Diego. Erin won an economics level from the College of Utah and her regulation level from Thomas Jefferson College of Legislation in San Diego. Erin has been commemorated to had been decided on as one in all Harvard Trade College’s “Younger American Leaders” in 2019, forming a cohort to assist enforce cross-sector collaborations to handle problems locally.

Randy Dryer​ began his profession as a operating journalist in each print and TV after which went to regulation college with the idea of turning into a community correspondent reporting at the Very best Court docket. He started his 2nd profession as a practising attorney at Utah’s greatest regulation company, Parsons Behle & Latimer, the place he used to be in a position to mix his love of regulation and journalism in a countrywide media regulation litigation follow. Randy has represented just about each and every primary information group within the State of Utah, together with The Salt Lake Tribune, and plenty of nationwide information organizations. In 2012 he used to be named by way of Best possible Attorneys as “First Modification Legal professional of the Yr” in Salt Lake Town, Utah. After 30 years as a practising attorney, Randy used to be named because the Presidential Honors Professor on the College of Utah with a joint appointment on the S.J. Quinney School of Legislation and the Honors School the place he teaches lessons in media regulation, pretrial follow, judicial procedure and virtual privateness, and is actively keen on college governance at each schools and the college as an entire. Randy has a protracted historical past of group engagement and volunteerism, together with serving as a member of the board of trustees of the 2002 Salt Lake Town Wintry weather Olympic Video games Organizing Committee, the Utah Athletic Basis, president of the Utah State Bar, a member of the board of trustees of the College of Utah and a large number of different nonprofit organizations taken with arts museums, get admission to to justice and marketing campaign finance reform.

Fred Esplin lately retired from the College of Utah, the place he used to be supervisor of KUED (PBS Utah) for a few years ahead of changing into Vice President for Institutional Development. He started his public broadcasting profession with PBS in Washington DC, then WITF-TV-FM in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ahead of returning to Utah. Fred has served at the forums of PBS, the Believe for Public Lands, the Utah Humanities Council, the Utah Arts Council, the Utah Shakespeare Pageant, and the Zion Canyon Mesa. He used to be govt manufacturer of a number of public tv methods and has revealed within the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah Journalism Assessment, Discussion: A Magazine of Mormon Idea, Public Telecommunications Assessment, and the New York Instances. Fred is a local of southern Utah and president of his circle of relatives’s livestock corporate, whose ranch above Zion Nationwide Park has been positioned in a conservation easement.

Jorge Fierro Jorge Fierro is CEO of The Fierro Team Inc., a trade at the west facet of Salt Lake Town composed of Rico Emblem, with a distribution of 45 other merchandise in 5 other states, Frida Bistro and Rico Catering. A local of Chihuahua Mexico, he studied Legislation on the College of Chihuahua ahead of immigrating to the U.S. He began his trade with a $10,000 mortgage from Utah Microenterprises Mortgage Fund in 1998. Fierro additionally serves at the Lowel Bennion Group Provider Middle on the College of Utah, the United Means of Salt Lake, Envision Utah, West Facet Trade Alliance and on the Race Swami. He is without doubt one of the founders of Burrito Undertaking SLC, which feed homeless and the ones in want in our town.

Ciel Hunter is a expert founded in Millcreek. In the past, she spent over a decade at VICE Media, the place she held a number of management roles taken with content material, manufacturing, and inventive building. As World Head of Content material, she oversaw a community of houses masking tradition, era, and way of life, which operated in over 20 nations, and led the community’s staff of writers, editors, manufacturers, designers, and target market leads. Hunter additionally served as Government Inventive Director at VICE, and ran the worldwide arts initiative The Creators Undertaking. In her present paintings she supplies content material technique, ingenious path, and operational steerage for a number of manufacturers and non-profits. Hunter won her Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia College in 2006.

Holly Mullen ​used to be born and raised in Salt Lake Town. Her earliest reminiscence of The Salt Lake Tribune comes to sitting on the kitchen desk at age six sounding out the headlines to her mother or dad. Holly is a graduate of the College of Utah, the place she earned a bachelor’s level in communique, with an emphasis on information reporting. Two weeks after commencement, she used to be employed as a cub reporter on the Deseret Information and started a 30-year profession in reporting, writing and enhancing at newspapers around the nation. She used to be The Salt Lake Tribune’s first lady govt sports activities editor and a well-liked Utah web page columnist, writing on politics and native tradition. From 2007 to 2015, Holly used to be editor at Salt Lake Town Weekly; communications director for the Utah Space Democratic Caucus, and govt director of the nonprofit Rape Restoration Middle in Salt Lake Town. She used to be a communique staff member for Salt Lake Town Mayor Jackie Biskupski, and is recently communique and public engagement supervisor for Salt Lake Town Public Utilities.

Ashish Patel​ is leader insights officer at Team 9 Media, the No. 1 writer on cellular within the U.S. and residential to category-leading media manufacturers Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and POPSUGAR. Ashish similtaneously holds the name of Government-in-Place of abode at early-stage VC fund Lerer Hippeau. Previous to Team 9’s formation, Ashish used to be senior vp of social media at NowThis Media in addition to consultant at The Dodo and Thrillist, and head of worldwide social media at VICE. Ashish used to be born and raised in Salt Lake Town and attended The Waterford College. Ashish graduated from the College of Pennsylvania in 2008 with a bachelor’s level in economics and has labored and resided in Brooklyn, New York, since.

Dave Patel is Affiliate Dean for Pupil and Exterior Affairs for the Jon M. Huntsman College of Trade at Utah State College. He’s additionally govt director of the Huntsman Pupil Program. He in the past labored as Director of Building at USU. Dave served within the place of work of the Assistant Secretary of Protection for Reserve Affairs as Director for Nationwide Operations and used to be deployed to Iraq in 2003 to judge home-front have an effect on of Reserve mobilization. In his function, he labored to reinforce the partnership between Guard and Reserve participants, their employers, and the Division of Protection. He’s a USU graduate.

James E. Shelledy, Treasurer, ​ retired as director of Louisiana State College’s Administrative center of Pupil Media and Greer Chair in Media Trade and Ethics within the Manship College in 2017. He directed the student-staffed Manship College Information Provider program and the Civil Rights Generation Chilly Case Murders Undertaking, the Wrongful Conviction Undertaking and the Manship Statehouse Bureau, which covers the Louisiana Legislature for 13 day-to-day newspapers. Shelledy used to be editor of The Salt Lake Tribune for 12 years and has greater than 30 years of day-to-day newspaper and cord carrier revel in.

Angie Welling is the director of communications for Google Fiber, overseeing public family members and interior communications for Fiber in its 11 markets throughout the US (together with two in Utah!). She in the past led public coverage and public affairs for Google within the western U.S. Previous to becoming a member of Google, Angie used to be director of public family members at Salt Lake Town-based Love Communications. She has additionally served as communications director to Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert and public data officer for the Utah Division of Corrections. Angie used to be additionally a reporter on the Deseret Information for just about 8 years, masking state and federal courts and state govt. Angie holds a grasp’s level of public management from the College of Utah and a bachelor’s level in journalism from Weber State College. She serves at the capital marketing campaign committee for SpyHop and is a devoted volunteer and foster canine mother for Group Animal Welfare Society (CAWS).

Management

Lauren Gustus turned into Government Editor of the nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune within the fall of 2020.

She in the past labored for McClatchy as West Area Editor, overseeing 10 information organizations in Idaho, Washington and California, together with the flagship Sacramento Bee. Throughout her time with McClatchy, she introduced reporting labs taken with training, land and water problems and fairness.

Lauren has additionally served as an editor in Colorado, the place her paintings on transparency contributed to a brand new regulation that facilitated larger get admission to to public data, and in Reno, the place her staff used to be commemorated for its reporting at the ancient housing disaster that deeply impacted Nevada.

Utah is a homecoming for Lauren, who met her husband in Salt Lake Town whilst operating as a reporter and younger editor at The Tribune within the early 2000s. These days, the couple and their two younger sons experience tenting, snowboarding and mountain cycling.

Chris Stegman turned into Leader Earnings officer within the fall of 2020.

Chris in the past labored at Hearst as Leader Earnings Officer of the Houston Chronicle. Previous to Hearst he labored at Gannett for 17 years, starting in Phoenix the place he ultimately turned into Vice President of Promoting overseeing the biggest gross sales staff in Gannett. Following that function, he used to be named President of the Milwaukee Magazine Sentinel and USA These days Wisconsin. He additionally established and led a staff that labored with and oversaw USA These days’s greatest income class Grocery.

Chris and his spouse Tabitha, are excited to now name Salt Lake Town domestic as they’re avid hikers and each former extremely athletes.

Tim Fitzpatrick, Senior Director of Public Outreach and Operations, brings his 35 years at The Tribune to the complicated activity for reinventing native journalism. Tim oversees operations at The Tribune, together with technical and fiscal operations. He introduced the virtual subscription program in 2018 and lately took over virtual advert control. He’s additionally a member of the editorial board and often contributes editorials, and he has been actively concerned within the Utah Media Coalition’s efforts to advertise open govt.