Salt Lake paper remains committed to biz coverage

Lisa Carricaburu, the assistant managing editor for business, projects and planning at the Salt Lake Tribune, writes about how the paper has maintained its business coverage when others have cut back.

Carricaburu writes, “They are why The Tribune — unlike many daily newspapers including our closest competitors — have elected to maintain a robust business reporting and editing team to produce daily employment, financial and consumer news. Uniquely in our market, The Tribune produces a standalone Money section in print and continuously updates business news online beginning at 7 a.m. each weekday.

“Our team of veteran business journalists has the privilege — and the responsibility — to cover the most significant story of our time. The Great Recession has touched each of us in inexorable ways, and under business editor Michael Limon, our team works each day to help readers make sense of the often contradictory world of economics and finance.

“We’ve produced coverage in the past year we hope has achieved our goal to explain how and where the crisis has most profoundly affected Utahns.”

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