Deseret News business editor demoted

Deseret News business editor Julianne Basinger has been demoted to the copy desk because she failed to adhere to the Mormon-based coverage strategy of its publisher, writes Glen Warchol of the Salt Lake Tribune.

An assistant managing editor for news was also demoted. As a result, some reporters have withheld their bylines in the paper.

In the past year, the Salt Lake City paper has cut its standalone business section during the week, as well as its Sunday business section.

Before joining the paper, Basinger has worked at The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington, D.C., as a reporter and assistant editor, covering issues involving college presidents and writes feature stories on other topics with links to academe.

Before going to The Chronicle, Basinger was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press for four years. She started with the wire service in Salt Lake City, her hometown, and after a year, she moved to the AP bureau in North Carolina, where she covered national news events such as hurricanes and plane crashes, and wrote arts features for the AP’s national office in New York.

She decided to become a journalist when she was teaching at the University of Caen, in Normandy, France — one of the campuses in the French national university system. She taught English to first- through third-year university students there for a year after finishing a master’s degree in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah.

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