Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is the first legacy newspaper to get IRS approval to transform into a nonprofit public charity. The Tribune has explained the reasoning behind this important shift and owner Paul Huntsman has weighed in too. This story, from The Associated Press, provides an outside perspective.
New York • The publisher of the nation’s first daily newspaper to be granted nonprofit status says he’s since heard from a “few dozen” lawyers and news executives curious about whether The Salt Lake Tribune’s approach could work elsewhere.
Tribune publisher Paul Huntsman learned earlier this month that the Internal Revenue Service had approved the paper's plan to become a public charity, which lets people claim tax deductions for donations to support its journalism.