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Show 42 The Utah Magazine, published as a monthly in 1868 by Mannon dissidents, morphed into the Mormon Tribune in 1870 and into The Salt lake Tribune by 1871. The paper was established to debunk the assertions of the Deseret News and oppose the political and economic control of the LOS church. After this contentious beginning, The Salr lake Tribune grew to a daily circulation of 19,000 in 1913, shortly before the beginning of the period examined in this study. 111 The Deseret News and Salt lake Tribune were selected for this research because they were published throughout the history of Utah's national parks and continue publication today. This continuity provides a look at the evolution of environmental journalism in two continuous newspapers in the state. These newspapers have dominated the Utah market through most of their history. Their readership resides primarily in Utah, which allows a look at how journalists tailored messages to a local audience. This research also examines news coverage of Utah's national parks in The New York Times and The San Francisco Examiner. Given that the conservation movement evolved differently outside the state, these two newspapers - one national and one regional - were chosen to broaden the research perspective. The New York Times was founded in 1851 as the New York Daily Times and changed its name to The New York Times in 1857. Its reputation as the newspaper of record came under the direction of Adolph Ochs, who purchased the daily in 1896, and coined the paper's slogan, "All the news that's fit to print." This slogan was seen as a 111 Malmquist, The r'irst 100 Years, 281. |
