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Letter: I will continue to subscribe to The Tribune as long as I can read

(Rick Bowmer | The Associated Press) This April 20, 2016, file photo shows copies of The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper in Salt Lake City. The Tribune newsroom takes up one floor of the building that bears its name, overlooking snow-capped mountains and the arena where the Utah Jazz play. Once a Digital First property that dealt with staff reductions and feared closure, the paper was sold to a prominent local family in 2016. Since then, its reporters received their first raise in a decade and won a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.

By Ellen Tolstad | The Public Forum
  | May 24, 2018, 4:00 p.m.
| Updated: 1:39 p.m.

I moved to Salt Lake City in 1980 to attend the University of Utah. Living in the dorms, we were offered a good rate to receive The Tribune delivered to us. At that point, I started my very first newspaper subscription. Seemed like a good idea. I had watched my dad reading the Chicago Sun Times for years. I have continued my Tribune subscription uninterrupted, with the exception of the 18 years in which I lived in Connecticut.

I want to express my gratitude for all that you have done, as well as my sadness at hearing about the layoffs and financial hard times. There is no doubt in my mind that you are all hard-working, and dedicated to what you do. I hope that those staff who have been cut are able to find meaningful work. I don’t know that the winds of change can be altered to improve the outlook for print news, but I will continue to subscribe as long as I can read. But then, I’m bit of a dinosaur. I read books made of paper, and I also use a paper calendar … who does that anymore, right?

Best to all of you, and keep up the good work!

Ellen Tolstad, Salt Lake City

By Ellen Tolstad | The Public Forum