City Cast Salt Lake
🗓 Do you have plans for 801 Day?
July 16, 2024
Hey, Salt Lake! You’re invited to 801 Day, a celebration of our favorite area code. Featuring a City Cast cider, live music, and local businesses. Tickets are $5 and will help Seven Canyons Trust build a new SLC park. We hope to see you there!
What's CITY Talking About?
Another Sports District?
The Utah legislature laid the groundwork for a potential Major League Baseball stadium by forming the Utah Fairpark Area Investment and Restoration District, with a board to govern the area. The district aims to raise $900 million through local taxes to fund the stadium in SLC’s west side neighborhood. Except, the board’s chair is from Box Elder County. [Utah News Dispatch]
- Related: But we don’t even have an MLB team? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]
Reforming Services for Utahns With Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Justice is threatening legal action if Utah doesn’t improve its vocational services for people with disabilities. Currently, many programs in Utah place workers with disabilities in segregated jobs, doing repetitive tasks, paid below minimum wage. [Salt Lake Tribune]
- Related: How that subminimum wage persists. [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]
The Salt Lake Tribune Union
Salt Lake Tribune employees announced a unionization effort: The Salt Lake News Guild. Over 70% of newsroom staff signed a letter to management asking for voluntary recognition of the union before Friday, July 19. Their mission is to provide coverage free from external influences, and to secure more manageable workloads and better pay and benefits. [Salt Lake News Guild]
Media’s Trust Problem
Let’s talk about it. The news industry has some significant problems: Burned-out reporters, skeptical readers, and financial woes. Only 32% of Americans report having “even a fair amount” of trust in the media. As a local news consumer, you may think the trust crisis stems from a political bias. But what if research pointed to a different issue? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]
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What To Do
Tuesday, July 16
- 💃 Ballroom Dancing | 7-8:30 p.m. | Free entry | Downtown SLC
- 🎤 Ben Platt | 7:30 p.m. | $39.50+ | Downtown SLC
Wednesday, July 17
- 🌈 Hormones 101 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Free RSVP | All ages | Downtown SLC
- 🎤 Ben Platt | 7:30 p.m. | $39.50+ | Downtown SLC
Thursday, July 18
- 🌸 Family Nature Club | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Free | South Salt Lake
- 🇧🇷 Brazilian Bake Sale | 4-5 p.m. | Free entry | Central City
Today on City Cast
I think a question that different outlets are trying to figure out is, is trust ultimately more profitable than traction?
Is Local News Losing Faith or Gaining It?
Just 32% of Americans have even “a fair amount” of trust in news reporting. Bet you have feelings about this as a local media consumer! University of Utah journalism professor Jacob Nelson tells host Ali Vallarta how reporters misunderstand their own audiences’ distrust and why local news hits different.
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— Terina Ria
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