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Sheila R. McCann

Deputy Executive Editor

Sheila McCann has reported and edited at newspapers in Washington state, Idaho and at The Salt Lake Tribune. She has guided projects that have won regional and national journalism awards, including campus sexual assault coverage that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.

(U.S. District Court) This image is included in a lawsuit filed by Robert L. Hild, Jr., against podcaster Candace Owens. Hild, who is seen in the photo with two of his friends, says the placement of the photo next to a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phrase “Pretty Little Liars?” and other elements imply that Hild had some role in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Candace Owens falsely accused him of being involved in Charlie Kirk’s killing, Utah man alleges in new defamation lawsuit

By Sheila McCann | Samantha Moilanen | September 30, 2026, 12:05 a.m.

(David Jackson | Pool; 3rd District Court) Kouri Richins, left, looks on during her murder trial at the Summit County Courthouse in Park City, Thursday, March 12, 2026. She is accused of fatally poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, in 2022. At right is the first page of the "Walk the Dog" letter she wrote in jail in 2023, which prosecutors offered as evidence.

Kouri Richins murder trial: What to know about the controversial ‘Walk The Dog’ letter as testimony ends

By Jordan Miller | Sheila McCann | March 14, 2026, 7:21 p.m.

(George Frey | AP) Authorities conduct an investigation, Thursday, March 5, 2026, into the deaths of Linda Dewey and her niece Natalie Graves, who were shot a day earlier on a trail just west of Capitol Reef National Park near Teasdale.

Names of 3 women killed in Wayne County released

By Samantha Moilanen | Sheila McCann | March 6, 2026, 2:31 p.m.

(Pool) Mia Bailey departs a 5th Judicial District courtroom in St. George, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, after receiving a sentence in the murder of her parents in 2024.

‘We lost our parents and we lost our sibling’: Mia Bailey sentenced for killing parents in Washington City

By Jessica Schreifels | Sheila McCann | Mark Eddington | December 20, 2025, 2:26 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Protesters gather outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025.

Feds allege Utah soccer coach detained by ICE is a ‘predator’ with a history of child sexual abuse

By Sheila McCann | Addy Baird | December 10, 2025, 10:28 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Members of SunTrapp Workers United (SWU) and their allies picket in front of The SunTrapp in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. A week later, on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, the bar announced it was closing, citing the financial impact of the protests. Workers had asked the bar to voluntarily recognize the union and alleged they had been retaliated against by management.

As historic LGBTQ+ bar closes in SLC, owner and union organizers say they both hope to find ‘a path forward’

By Brock Marchant | Sheila McCann | Rick Egan | November 1, 2025, 10:11 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Hunter Power Plant with the San Rafael Energy Research Center in the foreground, in Emery County near Orangeville, on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

Utah will have a new nuclear reactor running by 2026, Gov. Cox and startup Valar Atomics announce

By Sheila McCann | Colton Lochhead | May 24, 2025, 3:26 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) US Magnesium, which has ceased operations at the magnesium plant on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake, is pictured on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. On Friday, a Utah judge appointed a receiver to take over the company, after state officials argued it was failing to do work required under a 2021 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Utah argues US Magnesium is ‘unable or unwilling’ to protect the Great Salt Lake as judge appoints outsider to run the company

By Megan Banta | Shannon Sollitt | Sheila McCann | December 16, 2024, 9:30 p.m.

(Fox13) NAMI Utah Executive Director Rob Wesemann is interviewed on Fox13's show "The Place" in 2021.

NAMI Utah halts all mental health classes and support groups, citing financial problems

By Sean P. Means | Sheila McCann | Paighten Harkins | October 2, 2024, 11:28 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Three helicopters were being used Sunday morning to help fight the Sandhurst Fire.

Ensign Peak fire evacuation order is lifted, with blaze 10% contained

By Yeonseung Kim | Sheila McCann | July 22, 2024, 4:15 a.m.

(Utah State Historical Society) Workers at a uranium mine near Moab in the 1950s. The demand for uranium, brought on by the Cold War, fostered a fair number of scam artists selling shares of Utah uranium mines that were not actually created — which prompted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to open its first office in Salt Lake City in 1954.

Salt Lake City was once dubbed a ‘stock fraud capital.’ Here’s why.

By Shannon Sollitt | Sheila McCann | June 5, 2024, 6:41 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Construction of a new Cubby's location nears completion in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The exit for its drive-thru will be near the entrance of the drive-thru for a nearby Beans & Brews.

Sugar House is getting a new drive-thru, eatery says, despite recent ban in neighborhood

By Sheila McCann | Jordan Miller | March 7, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

(Sheila R. McCann | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Atre Sugar House development, a project that involves general contractor Maker's Line, is planned to include a complex at 1121 E. Ashton Avenue with 228 units. The site was formerly a 24 Hour Fitness gym.

What will happen to high-profile construction in Salt Lake City as contractor Makers Line goes silent?

By Shannon Sollitt | Sheila McCann | November 3, 2023, 12:10 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The cheer team celebrates as the Utah Utes host the Florida Gators in Salt Lake City on Aug. 31, 2023. The University of Utah is the state's flagship campus, one of eight public colleges and universities.

Utah universities and colleges range from big research centers to smaller college-town campuses

By Sheila McCann | Carmen Nesbitt | October 3, 2023, 12:02 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) So far, Skyline High School in Millcreek hasn’t had to turn away students who live outside its boundaries but want to attend, said Granite School District spokesperson Ben Horsley. But that may change as it opens new facilities.

Utah open enrollment: What it means for your kids

By Michael Lee | Sheila McCann | September 28, 2023, 12:07 p.m.

(Uintah County Regional History Center) The Uintah Boarding School in Whiterocks is seen in this photo from about 1912. Laundry and farm outbuildings are visible behind the three main school and dormitory buildings in front.

Forced labor by Ute students included “the most distasteful drudgery”

By Sheila McCann | September 4, 2023, 4:50 p.m.

(Uintah County Regional History Center) The reservation boarding school for Ute children in Whiterocks is seen in this photo from about 1912. Farm and laundry buildings are visible behind the main school buildings.

Ute children were forced to dig ditches, haul water, hand-wash thousands of loads of laundry

By Sheila McCann | July 20, 2023, 5:31 p.m.

(Keith Secola Jr. | Special to The Tribune)

What was life like in the Indian boarding schools for Utes in eastern Utah? Explore first-person accounts.

By Courtney Tanner | Sheila McCann | July 20, 2023, 8:00 p.m.

(Utah Digital Newspapers) Headlines from the Uintah Basin Farmer in 1927, top left, and from The Salt Lake Tribune in 1900, top right and bottom, reported the deaths of Ute students at the federal Indian boarding schools in Whiterocks and Randlett.

Ute Indian boarding schools saw nearly 60 student deaths

By Sheila McCann | Courtney Tanner | July 15, 2023, 5:14 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Longtime Highland High School teacher and counselor Dean Collett was honored at a memorial on the school's football field, where he never missed a game, on Friday, June 23, 2023.

‘Mr. Highland’: Celebrated Highland High teacher, counselor Dean Collett dies at 94

By Michael Lee | Sheila McCann | June 16, 2023, 12:11 p.m.