Salt Lake Tribune owner Paul Huntsman on paving a path for non-profit newspapers

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🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Should struggling print newspapers shift into nonprofit status? That's what the Salt Lake Tribune did. In late 2019 the Salt Lake Tribune became the first metropolitan daily in the country to go nonprofit, after receiving permission from the IRS to do so. Owner and publisher Paul Huntsman speaks with Brian Stelter about how Salt Lake's application might be used as a blueprint by other papers. They also discuss print versus digital and the paper's coverage of the Mormon Church.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Big
0:05.0	The Big Question on this week's Reliable Sources Podcast is about the future for local newspapers.
0:08.0	Is nonprofit status the way to go?
0:12.0	Is that the best path forward? its And as you know, this weekly podcast is our chance to go more in-depth with media
0:25.4	leaders and newsmakers, decision-makers, when it comes to the future of news.
0:30.5	And this week, our decision-maker is Paul Huntsman, a member of the famed Huntsman family in Utah.
0:40.0	Paul Huntsman is the publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune.
0:44.2	He acquired the paper back in 2016 and quickly realized this was not a for-profit enterprise. He decided to begin to take the paper in a new direction
0:57.3	and apply for non-profit status. And now the Salt Lake Tribune is the first major metro daily in the United States that's a nonprofit.
1:07.0	But it's not going to be the last.
1:10.0	In fact, we are already seeing other papers start to think about, start to look into this model.
1:16.2	Some smaller papers have already adopted it as well.
1:19.9	Maybe your local newspaper will be a non in the not so distant future.
1:25.6	It makes sense on a number of levels given that we've seen lots of digital news outlets
1:29.8	launch specifically as non-profits.
1:32.8	You know, these are the ProPublicas and Texas Tribune's
1:35.3	and dozens and dozens of others like that.
1:38.9	Maybe this model also works for print newspapers. So I spoke with Paul about it. I asked him first to take us
1:45.4	back in time to talk through what he realized when he bought the Salt Lake
1:49.7	Tribune. Paul, thanks so much for sitting down with me.
1:53.0	Thank you, Brian. It's nice to be here with you.
1:55.0	Take me to the history of the Salt Lake Tribune.
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