Putting together this look at The Tribune in 2025 reminded me just how much work goes into what you see every day. It’s your support that makes it happen and we hope you’ll consider a gift as the year comes to a close.
4,582: Stories set to be published by Tribune staff writers in 2025. To put it another way, we published about 13 original stories per day in 2025 — which is right where we were in 2024.
16,500: Photos filed by our team of visual journalists in 2025, or about 45 photos a day.
8.7 million: In June, the social platform Threads passed X (formerly known as Twitter) to become our No. 2 source of social referrals to sltrib.com, and it has stayed there. People saw Tribune reporting on Threads some 8.7 million times in 2025.
Journalist Trevor Christensen makes a video at The Tribune's NewsMakers event in Salt Lake City in November.
2.5: The number of reporter’s notebooks we use each week. Who says we’ve gone digital?
69,000: The number of miles our reporters, photographers, videographer and editors logged on Utah’s highways and dirt roads, reporting on stories from Kanab to Garland.
$258.53*: Our pizza budget.
*Editor’s note: if a pizza expense was not coded with the word “pizza” then it is not included in this total. It is the editor’s opinion that we likely spent more than $258.53 on pizza.
40,000: The number of homes that now receive the newly launched Southern Utah Tribune each month, for free, in their mailboxes.
The first issue of The Sourthern Utah Tribune rolls off the press in Ogden.
280: Boxes of photo archives we moved from our old home at The Gateway to our new digs downtown (this does not include the boxes of microfilm, which we also moved). We are digitizing these boxes, and in 2025 visual journalist Trent Nelson has scanned 13,279 photographs, including the one below of a former Tribune photographer posing with an award for one of his photos.
A Tribune photographer poses with his award-winning shot.
55, and counting: Stories about Utah’s redistricting odyssey.
$80,899: What The Tribune spent fighting various departments within the state of Utah for access to public records. Thanks to support from our team at Parsons Behle, we won when it mattered. Unfortunately, the legislature took note and passed no fewer than four laws that further restricted access to records in 2025.
3: Months in 2026 we need to prepare to make sltrib.com free. The tech stack transition is the biggest variable, and we will keep you posted on our progress. Meanwhile, we’re grateful to all who have already pledged to support this move.
365: Days in 2025 that Tribune journalists work to cover the news. Members of our newsroom ran toward victims of horrific shootings twice in 2025, putting their own safety aside in an effort to help us understand what happened at two high-profile public events. Every day they work with professionalism and sensitivity.
This work requires heavy mental lifting. I want to thank every journalist at The Trib for their commitment to this work.
I also want to thank you for making this work possible. If you supported The Tribune this year with a donation or a subscription, you have helped to strengthen Utah. And you have helped to sustain what I hope you can see is a massive effort, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
If you haven’t given, please consider supporting us. If you’re fortunate enough to have the wherewithal to give more, we’ve got another 4,500 or so stories to cover in 2026.
- Lauren Gustus is CEO and Executive Editor of The Salt Lake Tribune.