28 Facts About Deseret News

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The Deseret News is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and is published by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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The publication's name is from the geographic area of Deseret News first identified by Utah's pioneer settlers, and much of the publication's reporting is rooted in that region.

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3.

Deseret News publishes 10 editions of Deseret Magazine per year.

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4.

Deseret News returned to Winter Quarters on November 12, 1847, with the press.

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5.

Jobs press, usually called the Deseret News Press, was set up so the News could print books, booklets, handbills, broadsides, etc.

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On October 8, 1865 the Deseret News launched its semi-weekly edition, this allowed news to get out more quickly and allowed for more advertisements.

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Since its founding the Tribune and Deseret News have often been involved in "newspaper battles, " times when they could not agree on anything, even secular items.

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Since its first publication, the News had been owned directly by the LDS Church, but as worries about property confiscation increased due to the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act and Poland Act, the paper's ownership was transferred to The Deseret News Company following incorporation on September 3, 1880.

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About this same time the Deseret News began looking for a location to build a new paper mill, as the Sugar House paper plant was inadequate.

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10.

The Deseret News would sell the paper mill in 1892 to the Granite Paper Mills Company.

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11.

On October 1, 1892, The Deseret News Company leased the News along with all the company's printing, bookbinding, and merchandising to the Cannon family.

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12.

The family's Deseret News Publishing Company was dissolved after the lease was gone, and within a few months The Deseret News Company was dissolved and ownership of the paper was returned directly to the LDS Church.

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Immediately the paper's weekly edition, The Deseret News Weekly, was discontinued; its last issue was published December 10, 1898.

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14.

Two days later the Deseret News announced it had purchased the Utah Farmer, a weekly agricultural paper; which it would eventually sell.

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Deseret News had been under the direct ownership of the Church since 1898, when The Deseret News Company was dissolved.

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16.

The Deseret News stopped Sunday publication; subscribers received a Sunday Tribune instead.

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17.

The Deseret News purchased the afternoon Salt Lake Telegram from the Tribune.

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18.

In 1968 the Deseret News moved, this time into a new building on Regent Street.

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19.

Joint operating agreement with the Tribune in 1952 had ended the paper's Sunday edition, but when the 30-year-old agreement was up for renewal, it was changed to allow the Deseret News to publish a Sunday morning edition and change its Saturday publication from an evening to morning paper.

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The first Sunday morning edition of the Deseret News appeared January 16, 1983, and the paper has published a Sunday edition ever since.

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21.

The battle was resolved with the 2000 sale of the Tribune and with the Deseret News switching to morning publication and changing its name on June 9, 2003 to the Deseret Morning News.

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22.

On January 26, 1995 the Deseret News launched the Crossroads Information Network, allowing subscribers to access the News digitally through their dial-up service; digital-only subscriptions were created.

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23.

In 2010, the Deseret News moved its offices out of the Deseret News Building to the broadcast house in the Triad Center, so they could integrate with KSL's newsroom.

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24.

Deseret News National Edition is a national weekly print paper concentrating its reporting and feature articles on areas including family, faith, education, and other values core to the LDS faith.

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25.

Deseret News publishes a weekly compact-sized insert, the Church News.

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26.

The Church Deseret News includes news of the LDS Church and has been published since 1931.

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From 1974 to 2013, the Deseret News published the Church Almanac, an annual edition carrying LDS Church facts and statistics edited by Church News staff.

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28.

Deseret News created an editorial advisory board to work with Gilbert and Edwards; it consisted of people with a broad variety of backgrounds:.

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