New journalism undertaking from The Salt Lake Tribune, Enlarge Utah takes form with website online, reporting from Salt Lake Neighborhood School scholars

Salt Lake Neighborhood School and Enlarge Utah partnered with The Salt Lake Tribune to beef up reporting that displays Utah’s communities.

Readers can quickly be expecting to peer the primary batch of news from a brand new partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and the nonprofit Enlarge Utah interested by highlighting the state’s numerous communities and tasty more youthful readers.

After the yearlong undertaking used to be introduced in December, pupil newshounds at Salt Lake Neighborhood School started reporting all through the spring semester.

With Enlarge Utah’s website online now are living and scholars completing up their reporting within the subsequent couple of weeks, Utahns will be capable of to find their paintings on-line and thru The Tribune, consistent with Marcie Younger Cancio, the nonprofit’s government director and an assistant professor of journalism and virtual media at SLCC.

Younger Cancio — a veteran newspaper reporter, mag editor and virtual and tv information government — based Enlarge Utah remaining summer time to extend range in native media. During the last few months, she’s labored with scholars in an introductory journalism elegance at SLCC to hide a wide vary of range, fairness, inclusion and illustration problems. Reporters from The Tribune have additionally visited the category nearly over the last semester to supply insights and guidelines.

“Those scholars have in reality taken this significantly,” stated Younger Cancio, as they’ve realized now not simply learn how to interview, record and write articles for the general public however learn how to enlarge tales and voices from their communities.

In step with Younger Cancio, there’s this “old-fashioned concept” that newshounds give “voice to the unvoiced,” when in reality, “everybody has a voice.” They simply won’t have the similar platform to proportion their voice, she stated, and that’s the place this new collaboration steps in.

Younger Cancio stated she’s “in reality happy” with the paintings the scholars have completed. Enlarge Utah — which may also be discovered at amplifyutah.org — will exhibit and archive all of the tales, footage and movies from this undertaking, which might be to be had for media shops to post without cost.